Would like to talk about this at the next RIT meeting. The Epicenter Dee Robertson introduced new staff members of The EpiCenter, Melissa Bernard and Alicia Carson. Reviewed Priorities for 1998 and the 5 Recommended Health Status Objectives. Dee is available to conduct onsite presentations on how to implement ways to meet these priorities and objectives. Legislative wording prohibits some sharing of data from state to state.
Health is created in communities.
This should be either year to year or on a three year basis to release information on the trends. There is a presidential initiative to reduce the disparities among the different racial groups by 2010. Alaska is funding to rewrite a software package into a diabetes case management system. This will be a one year project. Owned by Alaska, but it will be in the IHS standard.