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August 2009 Meeting Documents

Tuesday, August 25 — Wednesday, August 26, 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska
1-800-315-6338; pass code: 2474#

Day 1 Meeting Documents
August 25– 26, 2009 Agenda

“Growing Telehealth: Getting from Here…to There,”PowerPoint Presentation, Stewart Ferguson, Ph.D. and John Kokesh, MD, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, August 2009.
“Impact of Store-and-Forward Telehealth in Alaska: A Seven Year Retrospective,” Ferguson AS, Kokesh J, Patricoski C, Hofstetter P, Hogge N. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, 2009.
“Alaska Healthcare Roadmap,”PowerPoint Presentation, William Streur, Alaska Department of Health & Social Services, August 25, 2009.
Health Information Technology: Health Information Exchange & Health Information Exchange presentation handouts.
“The Medical Home,” Eby D, Institute for Health Care Improvement Medical Home Work Group, August 16, 2009.

Day 2 Meeting Documents

“Medicare Patient Access to Primary Care in Alaska,”PowerPoint Presentation, Jan Harris, UAA College of Health & Social Welfare, August 26, 2009.
“Alaska’s Response to Medicare Access,” Harris J, Wright S, UAA Health Programs Office, August 2009.
Finkelstein EA, Trogdon JG, Cohen JW, Dietz W. Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity: Payer- and Service-Specific Estimates. Health Affairs 28, no. 5 (2009). July 27, 2009.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States. MMWR 2009; 58 (No. RR-7).
July 24, 2009.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs – 2007 . October 2007.
Alaska Department of Health & Social Services. "Tobacco Prevention and Control in Alaska
FY 2008."
Draft Alaska Health Care Commission Report Outline.
Alaska Health Care Commission: Vision & Values
Consumers' Role in Health Care, Reducing Demand for Care through Chronic Health Prevention & Health Promotion, Section of Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion. Kathy Allely, MPH, Andrea Fenaughty, PhD, Karol Fink, RD.