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The exchanges say testing companies are refusing to provide information — a situation that prompted Polis to weigh an executive order after an informal request he made last month was turned down. “[The big lab companies have] said time and again, we’ll do what the law tells us to do,” said Morgan Honea, the CEO of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, adding it will only take a state law or order... Read More

How an inmate in Colorado receives mental health treatment while in custody directly affects both the quality and the cost of their care once released. This is true in all states, but in Colorado recent legislation has spurred a pilot connecting county hospitals and jails vie HIE. Read More

Georgia’s health information exchange (HIE) added a lab results exchange to improve care quality and lower costs for providers Read More

Kate Horle is the Chief Operating Officer at CORHIO (Colorado Regional Health Information Organization,) an organization that connects digital health record systems so that regardless of where a patient goes for care, their medical history is accessible, in real time, to physicians and healthcare professionals who need it. Read More

Over 7,600 medical providers are now linked between two Colorado health information exchanges, Quality Health Network and the Colorado Regional health Information Organization. Read More

Dentists' offices, physicians' offices, home health providers and other outpatient healthcare sectors shouldered the brunt of healthcare's steep job losses in March as the novel coronavirus ravaged the economy and forced businesses to shed workers. Read More

Thousands of frontline primary care practices, already strapped for cash, are facing these wrenching decisions as part of a new financial crisis generated by the novel coronavirus advancing across the U.S. — with little chance of direct help from Congress, as the latest Senate stimulus package passed late Wednesday doesn't benchmark any funds for independent practices. Read More

Hospitals and community health centers could get $130 billion as part of a $2 trillion economic stimulus package to help meet the skyrocketing increases of COVID-19 cases. Read More

The Office for Civil Rights released guidance for how protected health information on patients exposed or infected with COVID-19 can be shared with first responders, such as law enforcement, paramedics, and public health authorities, in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Read More

HHS is giving $100 million to community health centers across the country as the agency prepares for a surge in COVID-19 patients. The federally-funded clinics serve vulnerable populations, including those who are low-income, uninsured or homeless. Read More