Minnesota's big plans: An interview with Cal Ludeman
Minnesota, which has become one of the leading states in its plans for the use of health IT, recently capped a run of high-profile moves by announcing that it would build one of the largest health information exchanges in the country, due to go online early next year.
Cal Ludeman, Minnesota’s Human Services commissioner and chairman of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s Health Cabinet, explains how the state has managed its e-health expansion and what the future holds.
Government Health IT presents Rick Friedman, director of the division of state systems for the Center for Medicaid and State Operations with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in this recent eSeminar regarding how the federal Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services is partnering with state Medicaid and health and human services officials to bring Medicaid into the digital age. Paul McCloskey, Government Health IT editor, moderates.
