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Reports from the State Alliance for e-Health
Part I:  HIT and Medicaid: Opportunities for States
Friday, June 1

***FREE Archive is now available*** Free archive for this webcast is available here.  This webcast was produced by WebEx.

A consultation with experts from the State Alliance for e-Health Taskforce on Health Information Communication and Data Exchange.  Here are some of the questions addressed during the May 16-17 meeting:

How can states bring Medicaid and HIT activities together?  Can Medicaid create a funding stream to launch state-level HIT?  Does the 90-10 match for Medicaid IT apply to electronic health records?  Where have states found real savings through use of HIT for their Medicaid programs?  With vendors knocking at the door, what can states do to learn from one another about how various products work for Medicaid?  Transcripts of the May 16-17 meeting are available on-line at http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.1f41d49be2d3d33eacdcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=5066b5bd2b991110VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD#HIC. 

This is one of a planned series of three web-assisted conferences to provide legislators and staff a glimpse into the deliberations of the State Alliance for e-Health. The Alliance has three task forces working to clarify areas where states may act and make recommendations. The other two task forces are the Health Information Protection Taskforce, addressing information privacy and security, and the Health Care Practice Taskforce, addressing the practice of medicine. For more information on the Alliance and its taskforces, go to http://www.nga.org/center/ehealth.

Speakers:

Anthony D. Rodgers,
Task Force on Health Information Communication and Data Exchange Co-Chair
Director, Arizona AHCCCS (Medicaid and SCHIP programs)

Shaun Alfreds,
Health Policy Analyst
University of Southern Maine
Muskie School of Public Service
Institute for Health Policy

Event Resources:

PowerPoint presentations 

This event is produced by the National Conference of State Legislatures under contract with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices.  This web-assisted audioconference is financed in part by funds provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services E-Health Alliance Initiative.  Addition funding was provided by HRSA/Bureau of Primary Health Care grant number U30CS07490.  The program contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and participants and do not necessarily represent the official views of NGA, NCSL, or HRSA/BPHC.

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