Washington Health Legislative Conference:

2008 Conference - Presentations

Presentations may not be used without permission of the speaker.

Morning Break-out 1: Health Insurance for Small Business: Can It Be Affordable?
--Sue Sharpe: "Health Insurance Partnership: The small business connection to health coverage"
--Bill Daley: "Affordable Health Care for Small Businesses"
--Tom Dorr: "WAHA and WWU: Improving Health Care Access: Small Business Health Insurance Connector Service"
--Trent House: "Washington Restaurant Association"

Morning Break-out 2: The Media and Consumer-Centered Technologies: Tools for Engaging Consumers and Influencing Health Care Reform
--Hector Rodriguez: "The Media and Consumer-Centered Technologies: Tools for Engaging Consumers and Influencing Health Care Reform"
--Wendy Carr: "The Activated Health Record: Information Paths between Doctors & Patients"
--Brodie Dychinco: "Patient Centered Tools Promoting Consumer Activation"
--Peggy Evans: "National HIT Consumer Engagement: Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration"
--Diane Giese: "Engaging Individuals in their Health & Health Care"
--John Kaschko: "The Real Value of Having a Shared EHR: Value for Patients, Value for Practitioners"

Morning Break-out 3: Provider Performance Measurement in the Trenches
--Denise Dominik: "Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital"
--Michelle Seelig: "Making Quality Health Care Available And Affordable: Patient-Centered Care And Performance Measurement"
--Michael Tronolone: "Provider Performance Measures in the Trenches"
--Grace Wang: "Performance Measurement"

Morning Break-out 4: Medical Homes: Back to the Future?
--MaryAnne Lindeblad: "Medical Homes: An Update on State Activities"
--A. Christopher Olson: "The Medical Home In Pediatric Practice"

Afternoon Plenaries
--Hilary Loeb: Community Level Information on Kids: Finding the Data You Need
--Hilary Loeb: Data Handout on Community Level Information on Kids: Finding the Data You Need
--Greg Vigdor: Stephen Colbert Accepts Healthiest State in the Nation Challenge
--Wing-It Productions: The Election Show

Afternoon Break-out 1: Integrating Patient Values with Health Care Decision Making
--Leah Hole-Curry: "State Purchasing: Using Evidence for Quality"
--Diane Giese: "Putting the Patient in Patient-Centered Care"
--Shelly Karuna: "Shared Decision-Making: Overview, Benefits & Barriers"

Afternoon Break-out 2: Educating Policymakers about Education and Health: A Progress Report
--Julia Dilley: "Academic Achievement & Health: When and Where to Intervene?"
--Craig McLaughlin: "Education and Health: Conjoined Twins, Or, Why is SBOH always up in the schools' business?"

Afternoon Break-out 3: State Budget and Fiscal Conditions
--Office of Financial Management

Afternoon Break-out 4: Reach Out and Touch Someone: Enrolling Children in Medicaid
--Marilyn Andrews: "Molina Healthcare Outreach and Renewal Projects"
--Wendy Carr: "Outreach: Evolving Relationships, Evaluating Strategies"
--Lisa Podell: "King County Children's Health Initiative"
--Mary Wood: "Washington Apple Health for Kids"