Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Thursday, January 9, 1997
Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Thursday, January 9, 1997
A newly formed health maintenance organization, Kapiolani HealthHawaii, has been awarded a two-year contract by the Hawaii Public Employees Health Fund. New HMO outbids rivals
for 2-year contractKapiolani HealthHawaii, which was formed in January 1996, outbid Kaiser and HMSA for the nonfederally qualified HMO contract, which covers some 4,400 state and county employees and their family members. The contract takes effect July 1.
Ian Killips, Kapiolani's vice president of marketing, said the contract, which includes an option for a third year, could generate about $10 million in revenues. "We could not ask for a stronger endorsement," Killips said.
HMSA, which had the contract for the past several years, continues to operate the Hawaii Public Employees Health Fund's preferred provider plan, which covers some 69,000 state and county employees and their families.
Kaiser currently has the contract for the fund's federally qualified HMO contract, which covers 22,000 state and county employees and their families.
NEW YORK - IBM is making the contents of more than 2 million patent filings available to the public on the World Wide Web, the company announced today. Patent filings available
on Web page of IBMThe database contains information on all patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 1979, and a majority of those granted from 1971 to 1979, IBM spokesman Michael Ross said.
The patent information available fills 2,800 CD-ROMs, International Business Machines Corp. said. Web users will be able to search for patents by various categories, including subject, inventor and key words.
The free service can be found at http://www.ibm.com
NEW YORK - Tens of thousands of pager customers on the Skytel network across the United States were bombarded with a half-hour's worth of wrong numbers this morning. Snafu triggers flurry
of bogus beeps to pagersA spokeswoman for Skytel, which is operated by the Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., said up to 80,000 customers were affected, receiving between 20 and 25 erroneous beeps from about 8:16 a.m. EST to to 8:42 a.m.
She said the problem had to do with the news headline service provided to the company by Dow Jones. Skytel pagers receive numeric and written messages as well as headlines.