Dear HITCh members,
February 1, 2008
In This Issue:
State Alliance for e-Health Meeting
Friday, February 22, 2008
9:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
The Ritz-Carlton
1150 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
The State Alliance for e-Health meeting will include presentations on recommendations developed by the taskforces of the State Alliance. Followed by a review of current state and federal health IT activities and a discussion of future State Alliance priority areas. NCSL will be one of the groups presenting to the State Alliance. Donna will be presenting on the role of states in financing health IT. The presentation is based on a paper we did on the subject. The meeting is open to the public and will be broadcast over the web. Please visit http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/nga/080222/ for webcast information.
Meeting materials are available here www.nga.org/center/ehealth. I have attached a copy of the agenda and the presentation Donna will be giving. The financing paper is available here http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/07EHEALTHNCSL.PDF.
HITCH at HIMSS Webinar
States and Health Information Technology
Tuesday, February 26 at 11am-12:30pm EST/10am-11:30pm CST/9am-10:30am MST/8am-9:30am PST
HIT in Florida
Florida is working to foster the use of health information technology. Florida’s initiatives include start up grants to regional health information exchanges and pilot e-prescribing and electronic medical records programs in Medicaid.
Speaker:
Christopher B. Sullivan, Ph.D., Administrator Office of Health Information Technology, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Data Breaches and HIT
Patient fear of data breaches is a major challenge hindering adoption of HIT. How do the majority of these data breaches occur? What role do states have in ensuring the security of patient data?
Speakers:
Senator Bob Hagedorn, Colorado
Lory Wood, Vice President, Chief Security and Compliance Officer, Good Health Network Inc
Register now at http://www.ncsl.org/public/registration/mtg_reg.htm?mtg=wc022608. This audioconference is FREE for all attendees. For more information on program content please contact kory.mertz@ncsl.org.
2008 Financing Legislation Posted
The first round of 2008 health IT financing bills has been posted on the HITCh site. Tracking around the other issue areas (electronic health records and personal health records, health information exchange, privacy and security) will be posted over the next few weeks.
The legislative tracking is available here: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/forum/Hitch/finance_08.htm.
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