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JOINT MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH

AND COMMITTEE ON HEALTH PLANNING

The Public Health Committee is charged with addressing the statewide governmental public health infrastructure (including workforce, IT, laboratory and other organizational capacity consistent with the Essential Public Health Functions) and support actions to assure readiness for future public health agency accreditation and public health workforce certification. The Committee also promotes interagency collaborations across government to support a “Health in All Policies” approach by State leadership.

The Health Planning Committee advises the Council on need-methodologies, health facility plans, and emerging health care issues. Monitors major health care initiatives and advises the Council on progress and/or problems. The Committee will also include functions from the SHPRC’s Committee on Major Medical Equipment and Appropriateness Review in the evaluation of high technology equipment, and specialized services such as organ transplants. The Committee will also take into consider rural health matters in collaboration with the Rural Health Council. The Committee will also handle matters formerly considered under the SHPRC’s Information Systems Review Committee whose general purpose was to advance a framework for CON to ensure interoperable health information technology as an underpinning to health care delivery.

TIME

STAFF CONTACT

9:45 a.m.

Sylvia Pirani at (518) 473-4223 or

Karen Madden at (518) 402-0935