David Isei, MPH · MAOL · PMP
Hawaiʻi-rooted healthcare executive. Built the only audited evidence spine for an island healthcare system — and the export model for every rural and underserved system in America.
Twenty years of operating, architected into one platform.
I spent two decades inside Hawaiʻi's healthcare system — running workforce programs, building data infrastructure for state agencies, and translating federal funding into measurable local outcomes. Every step taught me the same lesson: the system already has the data. What it lacks is the evidence chain.
Mohala is what I built to fix that. Ten commercial modules — network adequacy, contract negotiation, grant ROI, workforce pipeline, disaster resilience, M&A diligence, legislative intel, embedded analytics, public investigative, state replication — all reading from a single 356-table spine. Every claim links back to its source filing in two clicks.
The buyers aren't paying for a dashboard. They're paying to avoid a $2M CMS fine, win a $250M state contract, or close a $1.5B federal grant defensibly. Decision-grade intelligence priced against the cost of being wrong, not the cost of code.
- MPH · Master of Public Health
- MAOL · Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership
- PMP · Project Management Professional
- Founder, Mohala Health Group LLC
- Executive Director, Hawaiʻi Healthcare Workforce Task Force
- Architect, HHIP (Hawaiʻi Health Intelligence Platform)
- CMS RHTP HOME RUN methodology lead
- 356-table HHIP data spine
- 72+ verified federal & state sources
- Host, Mai Ka Waha podcast
- Op-ed library — every claim source-linked
- Peer review across DCCA, DOH, HHSC
Three principles, non-negotiable.
Evidence over opinion.
Every analytical claim writes to an audit chain. If a regulator asks where a number came from, the answer is a clickable filing — not a slide deck.
Hawaiʻi first, replicable second.
The 356-table HHIP spine was built for Hawaiʻi's specific source coverage. The replication framework (M7) lets every island, rural, and underserved system run the same playbook.
Public-record by design.
We don't ingest PHI. The data sources are public filings — CMS, BLS, BRFSS, ACS, DCCA, NPPES, APCD, hospital MRFs. The defensibility comes from the audit chain, not the data being exotic.