• Home

Bernd Meier

Home Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky health policy prevention Free, day-long forum Sept. 16 in Louisville will explore doing health care differently; registration almost full

Free, day-long forum Sept. 16 in Louisville will explore doing health care differently; registration almost full

Written by Unknown on 4:30 PM ,
A free one-day conference will be held Tuesday, Sept. 16, in Louisville to explore policy opportunities and challenges related to doing health care differently for a healthier Kentucky. The focus will be on the shift to a population-health approach, which emphasizes prevention and integration of services while treating the whole person within the context of their community.

This edition of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky's annual Howard L. Bost Memorial Health Policy Forum, Doing Care Differently: Journey to a Healthier Kentucky, will have experts on:
  • Changing the health-care workforce 
  • information-technology applications in health care;
  • Measuring, and improving, quality 
  • Payment changes that drive care-delivery changes
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jason Hwang, chief medical officer and one of the founders of PolkaDoc, an "extremely affordable primary care" telehealth company. Other speakers include Dr. Craig Blakely, dean of the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences; Brent Wright of the U of L School of Medicine; David Bolt of the Kentucky Primary Care Association; Travis Burgett of KentuckyOne Health; Mark Carter of Passport Health Plan; Fran Feltner, director of the University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health; Dr. John Langefeld of the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services; Dr. Raynor Mullins of the UK College of Dentistry; Polly Mullins-Bentley of the Governor's Office of Electronic Health Information; Sheila Schuster, chair of the Kentucky Mental Health Coalition; and Connie White of the state Department for Public Health.

The conference is free to the public, but seating is limited and registration is nearly full. For more information click here; for an agenda, here; to register, here.
Tweet
Newer Post Older Post

Popular Posts

  • Lexington is considering whether to add electronic cigarettes to its anti-smoking ordinance
    The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council will discuss whether to expand its smoking ban to include electronic cigarettes, possibly as earl...
  • As part of UK campus food deal, Aramark puts up $5 million for Food Connection, vows to purchase Kentucky products
    By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky has entered a $5 million public-private partnership designed to promote ...
  • Heavy use of e-cigarettes may deliver big doses of formaldehyde, which can be a cause of lung cancer, study suggests
    Vapor produced by electronic cigarettes can contain a surprisingly high concentration of formaldehyde—a known carcinogen that can cause lun...
  • Ten common myths about diabetes busted
    Kentucky ranks 17th in diabetes, and many Kentuckians are newly diagnosed every year with the disease, usually Type 2 diabetes. The diagnosi...
  • Ky. ranks 8th in the number of high-prescribing Medicare physicians for powerful narcotic painkillers and stimulants
    Kentucky ranks eighth in Medicare physicians who are considered "high prescribers" of Schedule 2 medications, drugs that have the ...
  • Newport school board's smoking ban, which includes e-cigarettes, would be 38th among 173 Kentucky school districts
    The Newport Independent Board of Education  passed the first reading of a proposed smoking ban Wednesday, Jan. 28 after adding electronic ci...
  • Millions of children on Medicaid are missing free check-ups; Kentucky is a little below the national average
    Millions of low-income children across the country aren't getting free preventive exams and screenings guaranteed by Medicaid, and some ...
  • Obamacare seems to be no plus for Kentucky Democrats, perhaps mainly because of the word's first three syllables
    Though the federal health-reform law has helped cover more than half a million Kentuckians and cut the state's uninsured population by h...
  • McConnell seeks 'timely and fair review' of plan for Medicare coverage of CT scans for those at high risk for lung cancer
    U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell asked Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to "give a timely and fair r...
  • Research suggests eating only during a nine- to 12-hour time period can help maintain healthy weight
    For a long time, scientists supposed that eating after midnight was unhealthy, but now a study has provided support for the notion. When sci...
Bernd Meier © . All Rights Reserved. Powered by Blogger