The Indian Health Service has announced an additional Tribal consultation to discuss their updated draft Tribal Consultation Policy. The additional session will be held on August 30, 2023 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET. More information on the consultation can be found in the Dear Tribal Leader Letter. IHS also provided a summary of previous […]
August 8, 2023 Dear Tribal Leader and Urban Indian Organization Leader: I am writing to invite you to participate in Agency-sponsored Listening Sessions to share information and solicit your input on advance appropriations implementation. We will host two identical Listening Sessions on August 17, 2023, and September 6, 2023. Congress enacted the first ever advance […]
September 28 at 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Eastern Register Ask Me Anything is a question-and-answer session between the Indian Health Service (IHS), all levels of public health, and American Indian and Alaska Native community members. Experts from IHS will provide an update on the latest vaccine ordering processes and resources available to help facilitate […]
The IHS holds monthly update calls for all Tribal and Urban Indian Organization (UIO) leaders. This month’s call will be held on October 5, 2023 at 3:00 pm Eastern. Interested participants can find more information on the IHS event page.
Dear Tribal Leader Letter As part of the Indian Health Service (IHS) Health Information Technology (IT) Modernization Program, you are invited to join a series of four Tribal Consultation and Urban Confer(TC/UC) sessions in calendar year 2023 on Health IT Modernization. These are important and timely meetings for IHS to ask questions and get your […]
IHS NTAC Quarterly Meeting The Indian Health Service (IHS) National Tribal Advisory Committee (NTAC) on Behavioral Health serves as an advisory body to the Indian Health Service (IHS), Division of Behavioral Health (DBH), and to the Director of the IHS. The next IHS NTAC Meeting will be held virtually via Zoom on November 30, 2023 […]
By letter dated November 13, 2023, the IHS Director invites Tribal Leaders and Urban Indian Organization Leaders to a 1-day virtual summit on the new IHS enterprise Electronic Health Record solution. This event will be held on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, from 11:00 a.m., through 5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time). The virtual summit will provide updates […]
IHS TSGAC MEETING Wednesday, Dec 13 & Thursday, Dec 14 (AM) Location: Embassy Suites, 900 10th St NW, Washington, DC 20001 Virtual: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83198229977?pwd=cCtBbDArNm1BQnJqMVJ2NEFlZm9udz09 Meeting ID: 831 9822 9977 Passcode: 331597 Draft Agenda
The Indian Health Service (IHS) has announced it is initiating consultation on President Biden's domestic supplemental funding request, which would provide $250 million to the IHS to address the ongoing opioid and fentanyl crises. The funding request has not been taken up by Congress yet, but the IHS is holding consultation in order to efficiently […]
February 8 at 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern Meeting Registration Link
Dear Tribal Leader Letter March 20 at 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Eastern Zoom link
IHS is hosting quarterly Tribal consultations on Health IT (or HIT) Modernization effort. The next session will be held on May 9 from 1:30 – 3:00pm ET on the topic of "Deployment and Cohort Planning." Registration information and details on the calendar year consultation dates is included in this Dear Tribal Leader Letter.