[medinformatics] Hawaii to Launch Statewide Online Medical Record Access

[Healthcare Informatics News]

Hawaii will soon join a handful of other states in setting up a statewide network that will
give doctors and patients access to medical records via the Internet. From the Honolulu Advertiser:


The Quality Healthcare Alliance, a consortium of businesses and physicians, will begin work on the project in
January on Maui. The project, expected to take four years at a total cost of more than $10 million, will be launched on
the Neighbor Islands before adding O’ahu.

”It is a pioneer project,” said Gary Allen, executive director of the Hawaii Business Health Council, an
association of employers that’s part of the alliance along with the Hawaii Medical
Association and others. “It has never been done in a statewide effort” in Hawai’i. Nationally, he said, only four
other states have embarked on similar projects — Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Colorado and Tennessee.

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