LITTLE HOOVER COMMISSION
     AGENDA
    Public Hearing on Health Care
    Thursday, January 25, 2007
    State Capitol, Room 437
    Sacramento

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    All written testimony submitted electronically is linked to the witnesses' names below.

    Public Hearing: 9 a.m.

    Panel - Federal and State Efforts for Health Care Transformation
     

    1. Jeff Flick, Regional Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
    2. Kimberly Belshé, Secretary, California Health and Human Services Agency
    3. Lucinda "Cindy" Ehnes, Director, Department of Managed Health Care

      4. Power Point Presentation on Shaping the State's Role in Health IT submitted by Director Ehnes


    Presenter - Health Care Transformation at Kaiser
     

    1. Andrew M. Wiesenthal, Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Federation

      2. Kaiser Permanente's "Blue Sky Vision" submitted by Dr. Wiesenthal


    Panel - Opportunities for Value and Improved Care
     

    1. Sophia Chang, Director, Chronic Disease Care Programs, California HealthCare Foundation
    2. Andrew B. Bindman, Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco; and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital

      3.  
    Panel - Tools for Implementing Transformation
     
    1. Lori L. Hack, Director of Government Relations and Policy, California Regional Health Information Organization

      2. Additional documents submitted by Ms. Hack:
      Letter to the Governor from CalRHIO, October 9, 2006
      Draft Proposed Roles to Advance California HIE
      Transcript of an Interview with David Brailer, former National Health IT Coordinator
    2. Emma Hoo, Director, Value-Based Purchasing, Pacific Business Group on Health


    Public comment will be taken at the end of the hearing.

    Business Meeting Agenda

    (The Commission will consider agenda items I-VII at approximately noon.  The precise time will vary depending upon the testimony of witnesses and will be determined at the discretion of the chair.)
     
    1. Business Meeting Minutes from November 16, 2006
    2. Draft Report - Correctional System & Sentencing Reform
    3. Schedule/Project Selection
    4. Subcommittee Reports
    5. Implementation Activity
    6. Reports from the Bureau of State Audits
    7. Annual Audit of Bureau of State Audits, conducted by Gilbert Assoc., Inc.