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Few health care workers would want to return to the days of keeping medical files on paper. But big improvements are needed in electronic record keeping, too.

As its vaccination campaign wraps up, a Samoan health official said government “complacency” in routine vaccinations contributed to the severity of the outbreak.

New donors are sought to fill the holiday shortage as back-up supplies run dry.

Wahiawa General Hospital has relied for years on state funds and cutting services to keep afloat. New management is trying to forge a different path to survive.

Physician supply in Hawaii still lags behind demand, especially on neighbor islands.

The violation is the third the state health department has issued this year.

After website glitches prohibited some from accessing the online insurance marketplace, the deadline to enroll was extended by 36 hours.

Bipartisan legislation to raise the smoking and vaping age was folded into a year-end congressional spending bill that the president is expected to sign.

The U.S. senator points out Hawaii’s rising meth-related death rate in a letter to the Trump administration.

Hawaii is unlikely to see a measles outbreak at the scale of what Samoa has experienced, but its location in the Pacific heightens the risk for imported cases.