Alaska

Expand and sustain essential primary, behavioral, oral, specialty, emergency, home and community-based, and post-acute care health services across Alaska's rural communities.

Strengthen maternal and child health as a foundation for healthy families.

Build a resilient rural healthcare workforce through pipeline, recruitment, training, and retention strategies, alongside wraparound housing and childcare supports to help providers remain in rural communities.

Incentivize a shift from traditional volume-based reimbursement models to build long-term financial stability for rural providers through voluntary innovative care and payment models that increase care coordination, lower costs, and improve health outcomes.

Enhance access to preventive and primary care services for early chronic disease management, expand consumer-facing digital tools and population health clinical infrastructure, and promote healthy lifestyles with culturally appropriate community education.

Harness data and technology to expand the use of consumer wearables and digital devices, enhance telehealth, foster appropriate use of AI, strengthen cybersecurity, facilitate data sharing and system interoperability, and test new delivery modalities using emerging technologies.