Governor Bredesen Mentions the Memphis Effort in His Annual Address to the Legislature
Four years ago - Feburary, 2004 - Governor Phil Bredesen made note of a newly-formed collaboration between the Regional Medical Center in Memphis and Vanderbilt University. This collaboration led to the AHRQ initiative governed by the MidSouth eHealth Alliance and managed by the Vanderbilt Regional Informatics Group.
On January 28, 2008 the Governor returned to the Memphis project briefly in his address to the legislature.
He made two remarks that are relevant to the direct health care value of the Exchange as well as a way it may be used as part of the State's emergency preparedness efforts.
The Governor’s talk:
http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/govfiles/2008-SOS-Address.pdf
Security and preparedness. This is a bedrock responsibility of any Governor. This past summer Tennessee was named by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as one of the ten states in the nation to achieve their highest ranking for our disaster response plans. And we were one of eight states to get a perfect score--10 out of 10--from the Trust for America's Health for emergency preparedness. To David Mitchell and Jim Basham and Gus Hargett and Susan Cooper, and to all your supporters in the General Assembly, thank you.
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Education, safety, jobs, employees. I'd like now to address the subject of health.
We have a lot of things underway in the health field.
I'm particularly proud of the efforts that our state is making to fight some of the underlying causes of serious health problems, particularly in the areas of obesity and smoking. This is the real frontier in public health, and we're starting to show some real successes here; the smoking rate in middle school has declined from 17% to 10% over the past year, for example. That 10% is still 10% too high.
We are also a national leader in e-health, in the use of electronic data and communication technology to maintain and make accessible to providers a person's health records. There are advantages to both the cost and quality of health care that flow from this use of technology. We have paid a great deal of attention to the privacy and security of these records as we have proceeded. The initiative we have developed in conjunction with Vanderbilt University in the greater Memphis area is frequently held up as one of the two or three top e-health efforts in the nation.
On January 28, 2008 the Governor returned to the Memphis project briefly in his address to the legislature.
He made two remarks that are relevant to the direct health care value of the Exchange as well as a way it may be used as part of the State's emergency preparedness efforts.
The Governor’s talk:
http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/govfiles/2008-SOS-Address.pdf
Security and preparedness. This is a bedrock responsibility of any Governor. This past summer Tennessee was named by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as one of the ten states in the nation to achieve their highest ranking for our disaster response plans. And we were one of eight states to get a perfect score--10 out of 10--from the Trust for America's Health for emergency preparedness. To David Mitchell and Jim Basham and Gus Hargett and Susan Cooper, and to all your supporters in the General Assembly, thank you.
.............
Education, safety, jobs, employees. I'd like now to address the subject of health.
We have a lot of things underway in the health field.
I'm particularly proud of the efforts that our state is making to fight some of the underlying causes of serious health problems, particularly in the areas of obesity and smoking. This is the real frontier in public health, and we're starting to show some real successes here; the smoking rate in middle school has declined from 17% to 10% over the past year, for example. That 10% is still 10% too high.
We are also a national leader in e-health, in the use of electronic data and communication technology to maintain and make accessible to providers a person's health records. There are advantages to both the cost and quality of health care that flow from this use of technology. We have paid a great deal of attention to the privacy and security of these records as we have proceeded. The initiative we have developed in conjunction with Vanderbilt University in the greater Memphis area is frequently held up as one of the two or three top e-health efforts in the nation.
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