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Category: CORHIO in the News
CORHIO Policy Chief to Lead Health IT for State
Date: May 30th, 2012Source: Modern Healthcare (free registration may be required to view)Topics: Health IT, CORHIO Governance & LeadershipLiza Fox-Wylie, policy director for the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, has been named health information technology director for the state of Colorado. In this role, she will work with various Colorado state agencies to coordinate involvement in state and federal health IT programs.
Read MoreCloud-Based EHRs, Telemed Come To Rural Colorado
Date: May 29th, 2012Source: InformationWeek HealthcareTopics: HIE, Image Sharing, Rural HealthcareRural healthcare providers in Colorado now have access to a trifecta of online services that can help them deliver 21st-century medicine. Via the Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN), which offers secure broadband connectivity, rural clinics and hospitals can use cloud-based electronic health records, obtain remote consults from big-city specialists, and connect online with CORHIO, a statewide health information exchange.
Read MoreEHR Support Making Headway in Rural Colorado
Date: May 22nd, 2012Source: FierceEMRTopics: EHRs, Rural HealthcareRural health care organizations in Colorado are getting help in obtaining the necessary broadband connectivity to support electronic health record use via a collaborative partnership between the state's health information exchange and regional extension center (CORHIO) and the Colorado Telehealth Network.
Read MoreEHR Adoption, Telemedicine Feasible for Colorado's Rural Providers
Date: May 17th, 2012Source: SearchHealthITTopics: EHRs, Rural HealthcareRural health care -- despite numerous grants from the federal government -- generally gets the short end of the health IT stick when it comes to deploying a serviceable Internet connection. It is no different in Colorado, where laying fiber is a difficult and expensive process, and satellite reception is hard to come by in the mountainous and farmland regions. However, thanks to a collaboration between CORHIO -- the state's official HIE -- and the Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN), rural providers are not on the outside looking in for electronic health record (EHR) adoption and, eventually, telemedicine services via broadband Internet.
Read MoreColorado HIE Interested in Behavioral Health Integration
Date: April 17th, 2012Source: SearchHealthITTopics: HIE, Behavioral HealthHarmonizing behavioral health providers and primary care doctors through health information exchanges (HIEs) is a relatively new concept in the health IT space. The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), in addition to establishing a multi-stakeholder behavioral health committee, issued a report featuring strategies for including behavioral health in the state’s HIE.
Read MoreColorado: LTPAC Providers Receive Incentives to Join State HIE
Date: April 13th, 2012Source: LeadingAge MagazineTopics: HIE, Long-Term CareThe Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) is offering financial incentives to long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers interested in joining the state’s health information exchange (HIE). Organizations participating in the LTPAC Transitions Program will be able to upload a variety of resident health data, including imaging reports and lab test results.
Read MoreHealth Information Exchange Should Include Behavioral Health
Date: April 10th, 2012Source: FierceHealthITTopics: HIE, Behavioral HealthDespite a constant flux of privacy concerns by patients, the behavioral health community must be involved in the development of a statewide health information exchange, a recent report from the Colorado Health Information Organization concludes.
Read MoreColorado RHIO to Integrate Behavioral Health Data With Statewide HIE
Date: April 9th, 2012Source: Clinical Innovation + Technology (formerly CMIO Magazine) Topics: HIE, Behavioral HealthFollowing the results and recommendations of a report from solicited feedback from communities across Colorado focused on the inclusion of behavioral health in health information exchange (HIE), the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) is developing an action plan to include working with project steering committee members and other stakeholder organizations on consumer, provider and policymaker education.
Read MoreColo. Group Offers Ideas for Adding Behavioral Health Data to HIEs
Date: April 9th, 2012Source: iHealthBeatTopics: HIE, Behavioral HealthThe Colorado Regional Health Information Organization has released a new report that examines issues related to sharing behavioral health data through health information exchanges, Health Data Management reports.
Read MoreColorado Urges Changes to Info-Sharing Rules
Date: April 6th, 2012Source: Modern Healthcare - free registration may be required to viewTopics: HIE, Behavioral HealthThe Colorado Regional Health Information Exchange has issued a report on its two-year project to integrate behavioral-health information into broader health information exchange. The 36-page report, "Supporting Integration of Behavioral Health Care Through Health Information Exchange," is available on the CORHIO website.
Read MoreIdeas to Bring Behavioral Health to HIE
Date: April 5th, 2012Source: Health Data ManagementTopics: HIE, Behavioral HealthA new report from the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization takes a look at the issues around sharing behavioral health data through health information exchanges.
Read MoreShortchanged Exchange: Lack of Financial Incentives Leaves Many Facilities Unplugged
Date: March 10th, 2012Source: Modern Healthcare (free registration may be required to view)Topics: EHRs, Meaningful UseAs the adoption of electronic health-record systems among hospitals and office-based physicians skyrockets, electronic health information exchange is ready to take off too, fueled by a growing consensus on data transmission standards and protocols and market demands, according to industry experts. Even so, a sizeable segment of the healthcare industry is likely to remain shortchanged on both full-featured EHRs and full-bodied health information exchange, at least in the short run, in large part thanks to Congress.
Read MoreStatewide HIEs Pilot Links to Long-Term/Post-Acute-Care Providers
Date: February 29th, 2012Source: FierceHealthITTopics: HIE, Long-Term CareStatewide health information exchanges in four states--Colorado, Massachusetts, Maryland and Oklahoma--are using "challenge grants" from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to develop ways of connecting long-term and post-acute-care (LTPAC) providers online with hospitals, physicians and other providers. A representative of the Colorado HIE, known as CORHIO, told attendees at the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) annual conference in Las Vegas how that organization is trying to meet this challenge.
Read MoreEstes Park Medical Practice Recognized by HHS
Date: January 24th, 2012Source: Estes Park Trail-GazetteTopics: Meaningful Use, CORHIO Network, Colorado Healthcare LeadersThe 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...
Read MoreMore Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs Open
Date: January 12th, 2012Source: HITECH AnswersTopics: EHRs, Meaningful UseTwo additional States have launched their Medicaid EHR Incentive programs already this year. On January 2nd both Colorado and Kansas opened registration for their programs. The Medicaid EHR Incentive Program is a voluntary program established by Congress, administered individually by each State and territory.
Read MoreGroup Seeks to Fill Medical Records' Communication Gap
Date: December 10th, 2011Source: Colorado Springs GazetteTopics: EHRs, CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsPenrose-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...
Read MoreFoundation Report Examines Impact of Health Information Technology
Date: November 28th, 2011Source: The Colorado Health Foundation Newsroom Topics: HIE, Health IT"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...
Read MoreTechnology in Health Care is Topic of Symposium
Date: November 10th, 2011Source: Valley Courier - Alamosa NewsTopics: Health IT, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsHow 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...
Read MoreProgress On Health Data Exchange Specs
Date: November 8th, 2011Source: InformationWeek HealthcareTopics: HIE, Health IT, Data SecuritySeven states and 11 health IT vendors have banded together to support a set of technical specifications to standardize health data sharing among health care providers, health information exchanges, and other parties. A bigger vision being eyed by the group is for the set of technical standards to gain support from other states and EHR and HIE product vendors so that the specs help in the country's loftier goal of health data exchange among.
Read MoreCoordination of Care Improving through Expansion of Health Information Exchange
Date: November 5th, 2011Source: Summit Daily NewsTopics: HIE, CORHIO NetworkThe Colorado Regional Health Information Organization recently announced that 12 new hospitals have been connected to the state's secure health information exchange network. The hospitals are all operated by Centura Health, and serve hundreds of thousands of patients in Metro Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Summit County and Cañon City.
Read More12 Centura Hospitals Connect to Colorado Health Information Exchange
Date: October 27th, 2011Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewTopics: CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsTwelve new hospitals have connected to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization's health information exchange, bringing the total to 27 hospitals and nearly 400 office-based physicians.
Read MoreColorado Adds 12 Hospitals to Health Information Exchange
Date: October 26th, 2011Source: Modern Healthcare (free registration may be required to view)Topics: CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsTwelve Colorado hospitals have joined the state's health information exchange, bringing the total number of participating hospitals to 27. The 12 hospitals are all operated by Englewood, Colo.-based Centura Health.
Read MoreAvista Adventist Hospital Joins Electronic Records Group
Date: October 25th, 2011Source: Boulder County Business ReportTopics: CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsAvista Adventist Hospital in Louisville is the latest local health-care provider to join the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) program. Avista is operated by Centura Health. Centura Health said Tuesday that it also had linked 11 of its other hospitals across the state to the health information exchange network.
Read MoreCMS and CORHIO Collaborate for Ease of HIE Participation
Date: October 3rd, 2011Source: Denver Medical Bulletin, Official Publication of the Denver Medical SocietyTopics: CORHIO Network, CORHIO Governance & LeadershipFor physicians interested in improving patient care and lowering health care costs, CORHIO is offering a new simplified fee structure for its health information exchange (HIE) services. By collaborating with the Colorado Medical Society and to be responsive to physician feedback, CORHIO has modified its pricing model to help physicians better understand the costs of HIE for their individual practices.
Read MoreBoulder County Expands Use of Health Information Exchange, Connecting First Physician Office
Date: September 21st, 2011Source: EMR Daily NewsTopics: CORHIO Network, Specialty CareAlpine Urology, a Boulder-based physician office, is now actively receiving time-sensitive test results and other important patient data through the health information exchange (HIE) maintained by CORHIO (Colorado Regional Health Information Organization). This is the first physician practice in Boulder County and across Colorado’s Front Range to use data provided by Colorado’s statewide HIE.
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