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Isle, Japanese
medical execs
share ideas

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Star-Bulletin staff

Professionals from 20 Honolulu medical facilities are exchanging health care management ideas with 23 professionals from Japan who are here for a two-week program about America's managed care system.

The Intercultural Health Care Management Program began Monday and continues through next Friday. It is sponsored by JAIMS in Hawaii Kai and Medical Consultants Corp. of Azwell Co., Ltd., in Nagoya, Japan.

Executives, directors and physicians are participating from 18 health care organizations and hospitals in Japan.

JAIMS president Glenn Miyataki said intercultural management training "becomes increasingly vital" with the growing interest in medicine blending Eastern and Western medical practices.

"This program provides the cross-cultural opportunity for the participants and the instructors and hospitals involved to learn about each other's health care system.''