Healthcare Forum

Policy Forums

A policy forum on health issues, sponsored by the Maine Health Access Foundation, was convened on February 4, 2011 for members and staff of the 125th Legislature. The following is the forum agenda and supporting files and presentations.

Agenda:

• 2011 Healthcare Policy Forum Agenda

Policy Briefs:

• Federal Health Care Reform: An Overview
• Sustaining Maine’s Momentum in Health Information Technology: The Foundation for Health Care Transformation
• Medicaid Managed Care: Background, Issues and Options
  

Supporting Files:

• Participant Bios
• Health Care in Maine: An Overview - Dr. Wendy Wolf
• The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 - Andrew Coburn
• PPACA Overview & Perspective - John Benoit
• What’s Wellness Doing in Maine - Dr. Larry Catlett
• Wellness Council of Maine: Good Health is Good Business - Jamie Laliberte
• Clinical Health Information Exchange: HealthInfoNet and Statewide Health Delivery Transformation DRAFT - Shaun Alfreds
• HIT/HIE: A Strategic Initiative to Improve Healthcare Quality, Safety and Decrease Costs - James Leonard
• Quality Improvement Using IT - Dr. Frank Bragg
• The MaineCare Incentive Payment Program for Electronic Health Information Technology - Dr. Roderick Prior
• Conrad Ayotte
• Market Driven Health Care Reform in Maine: How Market Principles can Improve
  the Health Care System and Why Maine is Leading the Country - Elizabeth Mitchell
• Health Care Reform Exchanges 101 - Amy Lischko & Beth Waldman
• The Exchange in Maine Issues for the Bureau of Insurance and the Legislature - Robert Wake
• Medicaid Managed - Julie Fralich
• MaineCare Managed Care - Ana Hicks
• Health Care, Health and Economic Development - Keynote Address -
  James S. Marks, M.D., M.P.H.