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Health care as economic driver in CT
CT By the Numbers is reporting on the CT Health Council’s campaign to highlight the importance of the health care industry in our state’s economy. The Council, a group of health care industry leaders, has installed a set of posters this month in the LOB to make the point. For example, CT’s health care sector…
Read MoreRFP open for state health planning grant
At today’s Health Care Cabinet, we heard about the RFP for health care planning made possible by passage of SB-811 this year. Section 17 of the law directs the Cabinet to compare mechanisms to improve health care value in Connecticut looking to other states and assessing what would work best here. The plan for the…
Read MoreC-HIT forum on the benefits of preventive care
Join C-HIT for a community health forum, Get Health Wise: The Benefits of Preventive Care, Oct. 7th from 5:30 to 7:30pm at the Artists Collective in Hartford. Hear from clinicians about how to manage diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental health and primary care’s central role.
Read MoreCT median insurance premiums often higher on exchange than off
According to an analysis by the US Government Accountability Office of health insurance premiums, CT consumers paid more on our exchange than off, for many plan choices both last year and this year. This is unusual among states; nationally the best deals are usually found on health insurance exchanges. Median monthly silver-level premiums for a…
Read MoreCSG ERC health panel shares innovation lessons, resources for policymakers
Today’s Health Policy panel at CSG/ERC’s Annual Meeting in Wilmington DE focused on health care innovations that build value. States shared lessons learned and resources. We heard from Heidi Louise Behforouz, MD of AnansiHealth and Brigham and Women’s Hospital about the value of including community health workers into the health team. We also heard from…
Read MoreWebinar: Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients – Lessons for Connecticut
Join us Monday, June 22nd at 2pm for a webinar on best practices in complex care management for the most fragile and costly patients. Evidence is growing that we cannot fix our health care system without addressing the needs of the small number of patients with very complex and costly health problems. Luckily CT can…
Read MoreSign the petition for access to your own health data
Secure access to your personal health information is important — for accuracy, to save filling out forms with the same information over and over, because things get lost, to be sure the people treating you all have the same information, and so you know as much as they do about your care. A group of…
Read MoreWebinar: Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients – Lessons for Connecticut
Join us Monday, June 22nd at 2pm for a webinar on best practices in complex care management for the most fragile and costly patients. Evidence is growing that we cannot fix our health care system without addressing the needs of the small number of patients with very complex and costly health problems. Luckily CT can…
Read MoreWebinar: Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients – Lessons for Connecticut
Join us Monday, June 22nd at 2pm for a webinar on best practices in complex care management for the most fragile and costly patients. Evidence is growing that we cannot fix our health care system without addressing the needs of the small number of patients with very complex and costly health problems. Luckily CT can…
Read MoreCSG/ERC webinar highlights best practices for state exchanges, power of state-state collaboration
Last week’s CSSG/ERC health committee webinar highlighted just a few of the benefits of the collaboration between CT and MD’s state health insurance exchanges. Peter VanLoon, of AccessHealthCT, and Subramanian Muniasamy of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, described how sharing resources and lessons between their states has helped both exchanges improve over the last two…
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