Issue #32 - December 4, 2007(doc)
Headlines include:
• Methamphetamine-related Admissions
• Procedures to Treat Obesity - Hawaii
• HHIC's Secure File Transfer System
• Successful Annual Member Meeting
Issue #31 - October 24, 2007(doc)
Headlines include:
• Pediatric Hospital Stays for Cancer - Hawaii
• MRSA Hawaii
• HHIC Annual Member Meeting - November 7, 2007
• Hawaii Ranked 9th in Healthiest States 2007
• WEDI NPI Audiocast
Issue #30 - September 26, 2007(doc)
Headlines include:
• Motor Vehicle Accidents
• Crowd Out
• HHIC Online Reports Updated with 2nd Quarter Data
• Suicide Attempts
• HHIC Members Meeting - November 7, 2007
• Issue #29 - August 29, 2007(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • MRSA
  • ICD-9 Reporting
  • HHIC Launches New Website!
  • Pedestrian Injury
  • Waitlist Patient: Another Perspective
  • New Supporting Members of HHIC
• Issue #28 - May 1, 2007(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • Cesarean Deliveries
  • Geography and the Financial Condition of Hawaii's Hospitals
  • HHIC Online Reports Upgraded
  • Inpatient Hospitalization Trends 1996 to 2006 . . . Medicare & Medicaid Take Over
  • Upcoming Audioconferences for Members
• Issue #27 - March 22, 2007(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • Hawaii's Birth Rate
  • Common Orthopedic Procedure for Seniors
  • Health Trends: Data Tables Updated for Data Buffs!
  • HHIC Online Reports Updated with Fourth Quarter 2006 Inpatient Data
  • Wait-Listed Patients in Hawaii's Acute Care Hospitals - Who Are They?
  • HFMA Conference Update: Early Bird Registration Extended
• Issue #26 - February 21, 2007(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • Influenza
  • Financial Condition of Hawaii's Hospitals
  • E-Coding as it relates to Motor Vehicle Traffic Accident Rates
  • HHIC Launches New Premium Membership for Data Providers
  • Health Trends Website Updated
  • New Fields on the UB-04: Present on Admission
  • HFMA Hawaii Chapter 2007 Annual Conference - Courage to Care

2006 Articles

• Issue #25 - November 20, 2006(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • Cigarette Usage Rate
  • Part 1: Wait-Listed Patient's in Hawaii's Acute Care Hospitals - Impact on Bed Capacity
  • Health Trends in Hawaii - Lows and Highs
  • Health Trends Website Updated Frequently!
  • HHIC Online Reports Updated with Second Quarter 2006 Inpatient Data!
  • Payer Focus: Medicare
• Issue #24 - May 25, 2006(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • Cesarean Deliveries
  • Complete 2005 ER and Inpatient Data Added to Online Reports!
  • Why Hawaii's Hospitals Can't Win . . . Financially
  • Hawaii Average Length of Stay Declining - But National Shorter
  • Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Staging Codes
  • National Expert Reports Trends in Public Release of Hospital Quality Information
  • Illinois Hospital Association Shares Experience with Quality Improvement
• Issue #23 - March 22, 2006(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • Influenza Immunizations
  • HHIC Online Reports Updated with Fourth Quarter 2005 Inpatient Data!
  • Battling the Bulge - Hawaii's Adults
  • Battling the Bulge - Hawaii's Keiki
  • Register Now for "Winds of Change" April 6-7, 2006
  • HHIC Pursues Subcontract for the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration
  • New Web-Based Tool for States to Measure Quality Performance Now Available
• Issue #22 - February 16, 2006(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • Hawaii Physicians
  • Health Trends in Hawaii, 7th Edition is Now Available!
  • Cardiology-Related Hospitalizations Increasing
  • Save the Dates! April 6-7, Hawaii's Premiere Health Care Conference
  • Guidance Received from CMS to Help with NPI "Subpart" Concept
  • Mandating H-CAPHS?
• Issue #21 - January 18, 2006(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • Health Trends in Hawaii, 7th Edition - Available Soon!
  • Online Reports 2006 . . . Members Must Renew Access
  • Emergency Department Data Now Available via HHIC Online Reports
  • H-CAPHS Educational Conference Call

2005 Articles

• Issue #20 - December 29, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:
  • Hawaii's Healthcare Workforce
  • Age of Mom and Very Low Birth Weight Infants
  • Hospitalization Trends - 1995 to 2004
  • Financing Hospitalizations - 1995 to 2004
  • HHIC Online Reports Updated with Third Quarter 2005 Inpatient Data!
  • HHIC Online Reports Updated with First and Second Quarter Emergency Data!
• Issue #19 - November 30, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Emergency Department Visits
  • HRC Surveys Its Members on NPI Implementation
  • Hospitalizations for Obesity Surgery Increasing in Hawaii
  • Cesarean Section Rates - Continue to Rise
  • Preventive-Care Services Among Adults with Diabetes
  • ER Online Reports - Trial Accounts Available Until End of Year
• Issue #18 - October 19, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Emergency Department Admissions
  • Public Use Files Benefit Researchers and Students
  • Medicare Primary Hospital Payer
  • Trial Accounts Available to Access the NEW Emergency Department Data!
  • NPRM for Claims Attachments Published
  • AHRQ Awards Over $22.3 Million in Health Information Technology Implementation Grants
• Issue #17 - September 21, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Infant Hospitalizations
  • QUEST/Medicaid Billed 46 Percent of Newborn Stays in Hawaii
  • QUEST/Medicaid and Mental Health Hospitalizations in Hawaii
  • HHIC Online Reports Updates with Second Quarter 2005 Inpatient Data!
  • CMS DRG Changes for FY 2006
  • 2003-2004 Emergency Department Public Use Data Files Now Available!
• Issue #16 - August 31, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Elderly Hospitalizations
  • 2003-2004 Emergency Department Public Use Files Now Available!
  • Psychiatry: Second Most Common Reason for Hospitalization - Ages 15-44
  • Amphetamine Related ER Visists and Hospitalization - Hawaii, 2000-2004
  • HHIC Offers Secure File Transfer Option to Data Providers
  • Updates to HHIC Online Reports
  • Online Reports - ER Data Coming!
  • HRC Recruits Members for Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Workgroup
• Issue #15 - July 26, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Hawaii HIPAA Readiness Collaborative to Discuss Contents of Electronic Medical Records
  • HHIC and HIMSS Partner to Offer RHIO Education
  • Membership Now Available to Non-Data Providers!
  • First Quarter 2005 Inpatient Data Available from Online Reports
• Issue #14 - June 22, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Motorcycle-related Accidents
  • Membership Now Available to Non-Data Providers
  • Use of Episiotomy in Uncomplicated Births - Hawaii
  • National Standard Healthcare Provider Identifier
  • First Quarter 2005 Data Now Available
• Issue #13 - May 18, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Cancer Survival Rates
  • Reasons for Hospitalization - 2004
  • Cardiovascular Surgery: Men versus Women
  • National Provider Identifier
  • Feds Clarify Security Rule Issues
  • Pacific Global Health Conference
  • Hawaii Secure E-mail Implementation - Round 2
• Issue #12 - April 20, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Healthcare Services Role in Hawaii's Economy
  • Hawaii's Hospitals Adhoc Financial Graphical Reports Now Available
  • Hawaii's First Healthcare Collaborative Secure E-mail Network Goes Live
  • HIPAA Enforcement Effective April 25, 2005
  • HHIC Online Reports Goes Live!
  • Provisional 2004 Inpatient Data Now Available!
  • Use of AHRQ Quality Indicators for Public Reporting is Increasing
  • Website Offers Health Information for Asian-language Speakers
• Issue #11 - March 16, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Hawaii Long-term Care Expenses
  • The Graying of Physicians in Hawaii
  • Common Orthopedic Procedure for Seniors
  • Hip Fracture Length of Stay
  • Hawaii HIPAA Secure E-mail Update
  • Closing the Quality Gap
  • HHIC Online Reports Go-Live April 6
  • Second Telephone Briefing on Hospital Patient Safety Culture Survey Set for March 24
• Issue #10 - February 16, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Registered Nurses in Hawaii
  • Total and Primary Cesarean Rate - United States and Hawaii
  • Hawaii Patient Safety Information Available NOW
  • Family Health History Initiative Launched
  • Task Force Recommends that Male Smokers between the Ages of 65 and 75 be Screened for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
  • New and Improved HHIC Online Reports
• Issue #9 - January 19, 2005(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Elderly Population
  • Heart Disease and Stroke in Hawaii
  • Telephone Briefing on Hospital Patient Safety Culture Survey Set for February 15
  • Hawaii Initiates its First Free Secure E-mail Network for Health Information
  • Hawaii Stakeholders Respond to HHS' RFI on Widespread Interconnectivity
  • Hawaii Hospitals Step-up Collective Financial Management via Comparative Balance Sheet Data
  • Staying Alive Beyond 2005

2004 Articles

• Issue #8 - December 15, 2004(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Respiratory Emergency Department Visists
  • Emergency Department Data on Firework Injuries for Hawaii
  • Multiple Births to Women in Hawaii
  • Prostate and Breast Cancers: Most Common U.S. Cancers by Gender
  • Hawaii Hospitals' Payments-to-Cost Ratio Continue to Rank Below National Averages
  • HIPAA Security Tools Available to Help Hawaii's HIPAA 2005 Compliance
• Issue #7 - November 17, 2004 (doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Smoking Rates
  • Cigarette Smoking and Its Impact in Hawaii
  • AHA using U.S. and Hawaii Hospitals' DataBank for National Advocacy and Policy Making
  • HHIC to Release Inaugural Hawaii Hospitals' 2003/2004 DataBank Comparative Reports
  • New DVD Tool to Help Combat Childhood Obesity
  • New AHRQ Survey Helps Hospitals Evaluate Culture of Safety
• Issue #6 - October 22, 2004(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Gastric Bypass Procedure Rates
  • CDC Issues Ineterim Flu Vaccine Recommendations
  • Onine Reports . . . New Capability for Data Lovers!!
  • Estimates of Uninsured Using Hospital Data
  • Gastric Bypass Procedure for Obesity
• Issue #5 - September 23, 2004(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Heart Attack Hospitalizations
  • Elderly Women in Hawaii Face Unique Health Care Challenges
  • Women Residents of the Outer Islands Have Worse Health Behaviors and Worse Health Status
  • Flu Hospitalizations on the Rise in Hawaii
  • HIPAA Civil Money Penalty Rule Extended for a Year
• Issue #4 - August 31, 2004(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Discharges by Age
  • MRSA on the Rise
  • Diabetes Hospitalizations Increasing Among Elderly
  • 2003 Inpatient Data Updated
  • Cardiovascular and Respiratory Conditions Among Most Costly Hospitalizations
  • Last HRC Security and EDI Educational Program in Hawaii, September 28-28
  • CMS Delays Paying Non-HIPAA Claims
  • HHIC HRC to Provide Free HIPAA Tools at the Hawaii Medical Association 148th Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii
• Issue #3 - June 25, 2004(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Uninsured Hospitalizations
  • Inpatient Data for 2003 Now Available
  • Asthma in Hawaii
  • Children, Payer, and Hospitalization
  • Access to National Hospital Comparative Data Easier
  • Pediatric Patient Safety in Hospitals
  • Healthcare Industry Receives Strong Nudge Toward Implementing Information Technology to Increase Patient Safety
  • Hawaii DOH Award $2.8 Million in DHHS Bioterrorism Grant
  • Respiratory Problems in Hawaii
• Issue #2 - June 2, 2004(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Obesity Inpatient Trends
  • HHIC Launches New Online Reports!
  • Trauma to Skin Most Frequent Reason for Emergency Treatment
  • Nursing Ratios and Patient Safety
  • Peer Review Changes Enacted
  • CMS to Increase Payments to Hospitals
  • Most Health Care Organizations Remain Non-Compliant with Security Rule
  • HL7 E-Medical Record Draft Standard Passes, Heads for ANSI
  • HHIC, PFIZER, and PricewaterhouseCoopers Present a HIPAA Security Conference in July
• Issue #1 - April 21, 2004(doc)
  Headlines include:

  • Hawaii's Birth Rate
  • Dynamic Mapping Now Available!
  • HHIC Finalist for Business Ethics Award
  • HHIC Brings National Experts to Hawaii for June 2004 HIPAA Implementation Summit
  • Hawaii Health Plans Report Card
  • CMS Issues Change for Medicare Part A Claims
  • 2004 Nonprofit Hospitals and Health Care Systems Forecast

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