Estes Park Trail-Gazette
(January 24, 2012)
The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) hosted a meeting at Denver Health in Denver, Colo., for Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the national coordinator for health information technology of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Jan. 12., to recognize the first 299 prescribing providers in Colorado to achieve "Stage I Meaningful Use of an Electronic Health Record," as defined by the Medicare program. Four family practice physicians from Timberline Medical in Estes Park...
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Colorado Springs Gazette
(December 10, 2011)
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has electronic medical records — when you go to the hospital, all the tests and data and doctor’s notes about you end up in an electronic file. Same at Memorial Health System and Colorado Springs Health Partners and several other physicians’ practices around town. Here’s the thing: None of those electronic records systems talk to each other. It’s like the bad old days between Windows and Macs, when transferring a simple word processing document between operating systems was a serious hassle. It’s worse, actually, because there are many electronic...
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The Colorado Health Foundation Newsroom
(November 28, 2011)
"Healthy Connections in Colorado: A Primer for HIT Success," a new report by the Colorado Health Foundation, explores how health information technology (HIT) impacted health care safety net organizations in the state. Under its four-year Healthy Connections initiative, the Foundation issued 75 grants to 43 organizations – investing a total of $9.4 million to build, support and, with this report, evaluate HIT. The report uses statistical data and insights from Healthy Connections recipients to show how the initiative spurred HIT implementation among Colorado's health care safety net providers. It also highlights the challenges and "lessons learned" by pioneers in...
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Valley Courier - Alamosa News
(November 10, 2011)
How can medical providers and patients use technology in their health care, as they already do in just about every other aspect of their lives? This question was posed during the San Luis Valley Health Information Technology Symposium hosted by the SLV Regional Medical Center and the SLV Area Health Education Center on...
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Government Health IT News
(November 8, 2011)
A band of state health information exchanges (HIEs) and technology vendors came together to create technical specifications that enable electronic health records (EHRs) to feed into HIEs. The specifications leverage existing HL7 standards, technical frameworks from IHE International and...
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