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Indiana Policy Issues and Initiatives
Indiana: State Probably Won't Mandate Tracking for People with Dementia
Posted: August 20 2009
Indiana's Health Finance Commission has several months before it needs to decide whether the state should mandate that adults with dementia or other illnesses wear a tracking device so they can be more easily located if they become lost. But after hearing testimony about voluntary tracking programs that operate in other parts of the country, the commission's chairperson said that legislators are unlikely to authorize mandatory tracking. The question came up last year when a bill authorizing a statewide Silver Alert system called for a study of mandatory electronic monitoring of some adults.
Indiana and Ohio: HIEs Form First Multi-Region IHE
Posted: September 2 2009
Officials from three health information exchanges (HIE) - HealthBridge in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Indiana Health Information Exchange in Indianapolis, Ind., and HealthLINC in Bloomington, Ind. - have formed the nation's first live, multi-region health information exchange (HIE). The organizations collectively serve more than 15,000 physician and 50 hospitals, and have more than 12 million patient records.
CAST State Policy Contacts
Scott Peifer
Associate Director, CAST
(916) 842-7341
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