As efforts to expand digital health access continue across Hawaiʻi, the Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center (PBTRC) is turning insight into action by learning from national partners and bringing those lessons back to local communities. Through both national collaboration and on-the-ground engagement, a clear theme has emerged: sustainable transformation…
Success Stories
Read stories about successful implementations of telehealth
Success Stories
In March 2026, PBTRC had the opportunity to join the Community First’s, Kuleana Health Fair, bringing telehealth resources and digital support directly to the community. We brought with us our incredible partners from the Tech Savvy Teens program, who participate in our digital navigator and telehealth training. They showed…
Our team spent a week on Kauaʻi doing what we love most. Listening, learning, and connecting with the community. Throughout the week we traveled across the island, visiting different regions and gathering with residents and local organizations to talk story about digital access, telehealth, and the everyday barriers people…
In August 2025, PBTRC partnered with federally funded Telehealth Resource Centers, academic institutions, and regional organizations to deliver the Healthcare AI Bootcamp, a national series focused on building foundational AI literacy across the healthcare workforce. Through a mix of virtual sessions and a culminating hybrid event connecting Honolulu, Los…
PBTRC was invited by our partners at Kupuna Connections to wrap up their month-long community wellness series on Kauaʻi, and the Līhuʻe community showed up with open hearts and a hunger to learn. What began as a training for twenty kupuna quickly grew beyond capacity, with kupuna eager to…
Confidence Gained, Skills in Action The Queen’s Health System and the Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center (PBTRC) came together to host a Digital Navigator Training that brought navigators, community health workers, and frontline staff into one space with a shared purpose: helping patients feel more confident using digital health…
Throughout October and November 2024, the Leadership in Disabilities & Achievement of Hawaiʻi (LDAHI) and Hawai’i State Council on Developmental Disabilities (DDC), hosted the 17th Annual Traveling Mini Conference (TMC) that took place across the Hawaiian islands. LDAHI is the Parent Training and Information Center for the state of…
The PBTRC team was invited to attend the 23rd Pacific Basin Medical Association (PBMA) Conference 2024 hosted in Koror, Republic of Palau. The event theme was focused on embracing “One Health” Tides of Change in the Pacific Medical Practice. The conference explored the integration of human, environmental, and animal health concepts…
A Successful Trip To Palau The PBTRC Team composed of Christina Higa (Co-Director), Ginger Porter, and Umerang Imetengel visited Palau in June 2023. They were able to meet with Minister of Health Gaafar Uherbelau and team to discuss updates on telehealth initiatives in Palau. They were also able to…
A joint team from the University of Hawai’i (UH) Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center (PBTRC), Indiana University (IU) and Maurer Dermatology Associates (MDA) were in American Samoa from the 5th until the 8th of December 2022, as a follow-up to the 2022 United States Affiliated Pacific Island Countries and…