The Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center hosted the Spring 2014 Telehealth Resource Center meeting in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi at the John A. Burns School Of Medicine (JABSOM) on March 4-5, 2014. All fourteen HRSA funded telehealth resource centers were represented at this meeting. The meeting provided an opportunity for the TRCs…
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The Hawaiʻi Healthcare Project, a public-private partnership between the Office of the Governor and Hawaiʻi healthcare industry stakeholders, organized the 2013 Hawaiʻi Healthcare Summit at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. A major focus was on the State of Hawaiʻi’s roadmap for healthcare transformation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Telehealth was…
Deborah Peters and Christina Higa attended the fall 2013 Telehealth Resource Center strategic planning meeting in Tucson, Arizona hosted by the SouthWest Telehealth Resource Center. All fourteen resource centers were represented. Major highlights include the agreement for the collective Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) to be represented collectively as the National Consortium…
Christina Higa, PBTRC Associate Director, presented a telehealth update at the 13th Annual Hawaii Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Conference, “Managing Change, Cultivating Excellence.” The outline of her presentation included an introduction of the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers and the Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center; highlights of…
Federal authorities have earmarked $1.9 million in new funding for the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers, paving the way for an additional five regional centers and one national center. Read the full story at healthcarefinancenews.com….
Dr. Deborah Birkmire-Peters, Program Director, PBTRC was invited to arrange a session on Telehealth for the 2012 Hawaiʻi Physician’s Workforce Summit: Implementing Patient Centered Medical Home on April 14, 2012. Presentations in the session were as follows: Dr. Birkmire-Peters, Program Director, PBTRC, gave a presentation entitled “Telehealth for Hawaiʻi:…
Dr. Deborah Birkmire-Peters, Program Director, PBTRC gave an invited presentation entitled “ Resources for Telehealth in Hawaiʻi” to the 11th Annual Hawaiʻi Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Conference on October 27, 2011. The presentation covered: A brief definition of telehealth and a short history of telehealth. An overview of Medicare…
Three organizations are receiving grants of up to $1 million apiece to help expand the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers. Read the full story at healthcareitnews.com….
Dr. Joseph Humphry, Co-Principal Investigator, PBTRC, gave a presentation entitled “The Patient Centered Medical Home Health Outcomes Optimization” at the Utah Promontory Health Information Exchange and Technology Conference, 2011 sponsored by the Utah Department of Health on June 22, 2011. The conclusions of his presentation were: Chronic care needs to be delivered…
The Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center presented at the Rural Communities Building Healthcare Teams conference. Dr. Joseph Humphry, Co-Principal Investigator, PBTRC, gave a presentation entitled “Telehealth 2011” at the Rural Communities Building Healthcare Teams Conference sponsored by the Hawaiʻi State Rural Health Association at Kahalui, Maui on April 5, 2011. Dr. Humphry…