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February 2007 Health Webcasts February 14:  Access to Health Care - Part I: Expanding the pool February 16:  Making School Wellness Policies Work February 21:  Finding a Medical Home for Children February 27:  EMR, EHR and PHR--Electronic Medical Records and State Policy

State Access 2007 Series

The State Access Series was made possible through the generous support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of the NCSL Critical Health Areas Project and HRSA/Bureau of Primary Health Care grant number U30CS07490 

Part I: Expanding the pool

A three part series on state legislators and governors plans to expand health care access

Wednesday, February 14
3 P.M. EST (2 PM Central, 1 PM Mountain, Noon Pacific time)

 

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Individual mandates, tax benefits and other incentives. Expanding access lowers average costs if healthy and sick alike get coverage.  Massachusetts enacted an individual mandate.  How does that work?  How are other states expanding their pools?  This will look at individual mandates, parental mandates, and insurance deductions vs. credits including HSAs.

 Making School Wellness Policies Work

Friday, February 16, 2007
12 noon-1:30pm EST/11am-12:30pm CST/10am-11:30am MST/9am-10:30am PST

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Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, federal law requires each local school district participating in federally funded school meals programs—nearly every school district in the country—to establish a local wellness policy. Wellness policies must include goals for nutrition education, physical activity, standards for healthy school foods, and other school-based activities designed to promote student wellness.  This webcast will acquaint listeners with wellness policy requirements, explain their preventive potential, provide a state legislative perspective on wellness policies and a focus on successful implementation of local policies. 

Speakers:

David Satcher, MD, Former U.S. Surgeon General, Founding Chair-Action for Healthy Kids [Bio] [Presentation]
Illinois State Senator Iris Y. Martinez, Chief Co-Sponsor Illinois School Wellness Legislation [Bio] [Presentation]
Jacqueline Barnett, Secretary of Education, City of Philadelphia [Bio] [Presentation]
Dara Bass, Director of Policy Services, Kentucky School Boards Association & Colleagues [Bio] [Presentation]
Joy Rockenbach, Act 1220 Program Consultant, Arkansas Department of Education [Bio] [Presentation]
Bonnie Ciarroccki, Coordinator of Jefferson County Public Schools Health Services [Bio]
Cheryl Sturgeon, SFNS, Director of School and Community Nutrition Services [Bio]
Jim Tackett, Coordinated School Health Consultant, Kentucky Department of Education [Bio]

Finding a Medical Home for Children: A Discussion for Health Care Practitioners, Policymakers, and Public Health Agencies

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST/1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CST/12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. MST/11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PST

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This Web conference will bring together the private and public sectors to discuss their potential roles in helping all children obtain a medical home to coordinate health services and improve the quality of care.
Conference speakers will explain the American Academy of Pediatrics' definition and vision of the medical home, demonstrate the benefits of medical homes using a genetics co-management case study, and identify policies that may support efforts to provide all children with medical homes.

Speakers:

Professor Holly Grason, MA, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [Presentation]
Gina Direnzo-Coffey, MD, FAAP, Boys Town Pediatrics in Omaha, Nebraska [Presentation]
Brad Schaefer, MD, FAAP, Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center [Presentation]
Brad Thompson, MA, Parent and Director of The Hali Project

NCSL and AAP would like to thank the Health Resources and Services Adminstration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the American College of Medical Genetics for making this conference possible. Hosted By NCSL and the American Academy Of Pediatrics

The hosts of this conference, The American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP) and NCSL have several on-line resources on medical homes that may be of interest. Please know that NCSL does not necessarily endorse views expressed on the AAP websites, which are provided for informational purposes only.

NCSL's Medical Homes Page
AAP Medical Home Policy Statement  
AAP Family Centered Care Policy Statement:

HIT Champions: EMR, EHR and PHR--Electronic Medical Records and State Policy

Tuesday, February 27
11:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. EST/10:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. CST/ 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. MST/  8:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m. PST

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Join NCSL Project Health Information Technology Champions (HITCh) via web-cast for a program on EHR, EMR, PHR: PATIENT-CENTERED HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND STATE POLICY OPPORTUNITIES

This program is a broadcast of the NCSL HITChampions Partnership meeting in New Orleans. A panel of national experts will discuss electronic health records (EHR), electronic medical records (EMR) and personal health records (PHR). What are they? How can state policymakers influence how they are used? Panelists will talk about privacy and security concerns, give examples of successful state efforts, and describe the experience of Katrina Health, a dramatic public-private collaboration that created partial health records for many after Katrina.  Participants are invited to submit questions on this issue to the panelists, either in advance or during the program, and participate electronically in the discussion.

• Introduction to EHRs/EMRs 
  • Moderator, Delegate Shane Pendergrass (MD)  [Bio]
  • Will Saunders, ACS:  EHR/EMR basics and the Missouri experience [Bio] [Presentation]
  • Lisa Gallagher, HIMSS:  Technical and policy responses to privacy [Bio] [Presentation]
• A conversation about Katrina Health and data aggregation 
  • Kathy Mosbaugh, Gold Standard: Lessons of necessity -- Katrina Health [Presentation]
  • Ob Soonthornsima,  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana: Claims-based health records [Bio]  [Presentation]
  • Eileen Koski, Quest Diagnostics: Learning to link with labs [Bio]  [Presentation]
  • Richard Leadbeater, ESRI: Public uses and personal data
• Discussion, implications for state policy  
  • Moderator, Representative Judy Baker (MO) [Bio]
  • Kala Ladenheim, NCSL Current state legislative initiatives [Bio] [Presentation]
  • Discussion

Additional NCSL Resources on Electronic Medical Records:

• Executive Summary of 2007 State Legislation Tracking Chart on Electronic Health Records and Personal Health Records
• 2007 State Legislation Tracking Chart on Electronic Health Records and Personal Health Records
  This chart tracks state legislative proposals related to electronic medical records, health records and personal health records.
  

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