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• 8/11/2020 June 2020 OHS News

• 8/11/2020 July 2020 OHS News

• 6/2/2020 May 2020 OHS News

• 5/21/2020 OHS: State’s Health Information Exchange Reaches Major Milestone With Cthealthlink Sign On

  Hartford – The Office of Health Strategy (OHS) announced that Connecticut’s comprehensive health information exchange initiative (HIE) now has its first client, signaling the formal launch of the technologically advanced network designed to improve patient care, coordinate the state’s network of health facilities and services, and upgrade the state’s overall healthcare delivery system.

• 5/1/2020 April 2020 OHS News

• 4/1/2020 March 2020 OHS News

• 3/5/2020 How Connecticut is Moving to Control Health Care Costs

• 3/5/2020 OHS Public Testimony in Support of HB 5018 Concerning Health Care Cost Growth in CT

• 2/28/2020 OHS Executive Director, Vicki Veltri featured in the Donaghue Foundation blog

• 2/27/2020 February 2020 OHS News

• 2/26/2020 OHS Public Testimony Support HB 5005 Adjusting the State Budget for Biennium Ending June 30, 2021

  OHS Public Testimony Support HB 5005 Adjusting the State Budget for Biennium Ending June 30, 2021

• 2/24/2020 OHS Announces Healthcare Cost Growth Benchmark Technical Team and Stakeholder Board

  (HARTFORD, CT) – Today, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS) announced the members of the Cost Growth Benchmark Technical Team and the Cost Growth Benchmark Stakeholder Advisory Board, two groups formed to establish Connecticut’s first healthcare cost growth bench as outlined by Governor Ned Lamont’s Executive Order No. 5. The order directs OHS to establish statewide healthcare cost growth and quality benchmarks and a primary care spending target.

• 2/20/2020 OHS: Certificate of Need Guide Will Make the Regulatory Process More Transparent and Easier to Understand

  (HARTFORD, CT) – Today, the Office of Health Strategy released a guidebook to help consumers and healthcare providers better understand the Certificate of Need (CON) process—the state’s regulatory mechanism governing health system mergers and acquisitions; major investments in new equipment or facilities; and changes in healthcare access such as adding or terminating a health service.

• 2/20/2020 OHS Releases CON Guide

• 1/28/2020 January 2020 OHS News