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When inmates are placed, or “booked,” into the jail, they take a medical history questionnaire. The booking nurse can access what’s called the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, or CORHIO, and verify what the inmate says on the questionnaire. Read More

A partnership between Colorado Dental Association (CDA) and CORHIO (a Contexture organization) will explore how data sharing between dentists and healthcare providers could advance patient-centered care delivery. Read More

A partnership in Colorado will look at how adding dentists into the state’s HIE, CORHIO, will support patient-centered care and value-based payment models. Read More

“Dr. Guffey's combination of service to the CORHIO and Contexture boards, as well as his role as a physician executive make him the perfect selection for this leadership role," said Contexture CEO Melissa Kotrys. Read More

Dental care providers in the pilot program will join CORHIO’s HIE and save the implementation fee ($10,000) plus receive two months’ service. The CDA is working with CORHIO to identify suitable candidates for the pilot. Upon completing the pilot, the CDA and CORHIO will partner to help Colorado dentists join the HIE. Read More

In an era of health information exchange consolidation, the HIEs in Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont have announced a collaboration aimed at advancing interstate interoperability to improve population health and patient care in and across each of the New England communities they serve. Read More

An NIH-funded study will examine how community health information exchanges (HIEs) could support dental data sharing for patient safety. Read More

Over the past few years, the role that social determinants of health (SDOH) plays in healthcare and health outcomes has become widely recognized throughout all aspects of the healthcare industry. As such, organizations in the United States and around the world have highlighted the need for SDOH information to be included in a patient’s health record to better treat the patient on a holistic basis, using a more “whole... Read More

At the virtual ONC annual meeting on April 13, Tripathi discussed initiatives that are helping to push the digital health transformation forward. Read More

The long-awaited regulations, requirements of 2016’s landmark 21st Century Cures Act, have been expected to force a “culture change” in healthcare, according to Micky Tripathi, who leads the Health and Human Services Department agency tasked with implementing many of the Cures Act’s data-sharing requirements. Read More