The 2022-23 Budget: Public Health Foundational Support

Feb 16, 2022 - These  regional specialists would provide expertise in analytics, epidemiology, and communications for smaller LHJs and would assist in standardizing state policy. Adds a Regional Disaster Medical and Health Specialist to the State ’s Mutual Aid Regions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4544

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the May Revision Medi-Cal Budget

May 21, 2021 - Potential users and uses of the service include Medi ‑Cal beneficiaries, who could access the portal to view their own clinical service records; Medi ‑Cal providers, who could view patients ’ prior responses to standard medical assessments; and state policymakers, who could use the data and associated analytics to identify and serve members with elevated risk and generally inform care quality and needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4436

COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions

May 6, 2021 - The ARP Act provides $1.75  billion to strengthen and expand genomic sequencing activities, analytics, and disease surveillance to identify mutations and develop disease response. Thus far, the federal government has announced $1.7  billion in funding for these purposes, including an initial CDC allocation of $240  million to states and select local governments, which will be distributed in early May.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4425

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - In July 2020, the University of California Office of the President established a COVID-19 Modeling and Analytics Consortium with input from CDPH. The spending plan includes $450,000 one time from the General Fund, available over two years, to support internal CDPH efforts as well as CDPH ’s leading role in the consortium.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465