Category: CORHIO in the News
State HIE News and Updates 3-17-17
Date: March 17th, 2017Source: HIE AnswersTopics: CORHIO Network, LaboratoriesCORHIO has successfully connected with two additional laboratories – MetroPath and Gastroenterology of the Rockies in-house lab.
Read MoreImproving Patient Safety with Health Information Exchange Networks
Date: March 15th, 2017Source: QIO NewsTopics: HIE, Medication Reconciliation, PharmacyTo better understand how improved pharmacist access to HIEs could improve the quality of patient care and reduce adverse drug events, Telligen—the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization serving Colorado, Iowa and Illinois—launched a one-year demonstration project in early 2016 in partnership with CORHIO, Colorado’s largest HIE.
Read MoreCalifornia EMS Agencies Work to Improve Exchange of Health Information with Hospitals
Date: March 11th, 2017Source: Government TechnologyTopics: HIE, Emergency ServicesBuilding Custom Solutions for Real-Time Care Coordination: Centura Health’s Approach
Date: February 28th, 2017Source: Accountable Care Learning CollaborativeTopics: Accountable Care, Patient Event NotificationsBecause ACO patients also receive care from non-Centura providers, the health system needed a way to collect real-time utilization updates from out-of-network hospitals. In January of 2016, Centura partnered with the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) to gain access to ADT data from every hospital in the state (one hospital pending) through CHN’s fully integrated HIE interface.
Read MoreEmergency Medical Services (EMS) Data Integration to Optimize Patient Care
Date: January 30th, 2017Source: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information TechnologyTopics: Value-Based Care, CORHIO Network, Emergency ServicesThrough partnership with CORHIO, both South Metro and Dispatch Health were able to focus their efforts on their mission of improving the health of the communities they serve, rather than the development of new health IT infrastructure.
Read MoreState HIE News and Updates 1-27-17
Date: January 27th, 2017Source: HIE AnswersTopics: CORHIO Network, PharmacyColorado Pharmacists Using CORHIO HIE to Improve Patient Care - CORHIO and Telligen, a Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization for CMS, recently partnered for a year-long project to institute, test and measure pharmacist query of patient information in the CORHIO PatientCare 360 portal.
Read MoreState HIE News and Updates 12-16-16
Date: December 16th, 2016Source: HIE AnswersTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, Colorado Department of Health Care, Policy and Financing (HCPF)The Colorado Care Connections Program, a partnership between CORHIO and the Department of Healthcare Financing and Policy (@CHCPF) has been expanded, making funds available to a large number of organizations to participate in the health information exchange.
Read MoreVanArsdale uses tech to aid health
Date: November 18th, 2016Source: Colorado Springs Business JournalTopics: CORHIO Governance & LeadershipHealth data enables you to see the whole picture, and that’s critically important today because people don’t have just one doctor. People don’t have just one way to create health. It’s a broad spectrum. They may go to acupuncture, they may go to a health club, they may meditate. Having that data available to everyone helping someone create their own health is critically important to making it work.
Read MoreThe Sequoia Project Further Expands Health Data Exchange
Date: November 14th, 2016Source: HealthIT InteroperabilityTopics: Interoperability, Behavioral HealthThe eHealth Exchange has become a valuable tool for handling complex health data exchange cases. For instance, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) is developing a pilot program for behavioral health data exchange leveraging the nationwide HIE. As a result of federal regulations, behavioral health data must be handled separately from other health data.
Read MoreRemoving Barriers to Behavioral Health Information Exchange
Date: November 11th, 2016Source: HealthIT InteroperabilityTopics: Behavioral HealthBack in September, Toria Thompson of Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) explained how a federal rule governing patient health data used in the treatment of substance abuse orders — 42 CFR Part 2 — made behavioral health data exchange more complicated that its HIPAA-enabled counterpart.
Read MoreHealth IT Appointments and Hires
Date: November 7th, 2016Source: HIE AnswersTopics: CORHIO Governance & LeadershipAs CORHIO (@CORHIO) positions the organization to keep pace with the fast-growing healthcare technology industry, two new roles have been created and filled by current CORHIO leadership and a third role has been filled on the executive team.
Read MoreHealth Information Exchange Partnerships Extend Data Sharing
Date: October 20th, 2016Source: HealthIT InteroperabilityTopics: Interoperability, CORHIO Network, Behavioral HealthAs CORHIO Behavioral Health Information Exchange Coordinator Toria Thompson recently told HealthITInteroperability.com last month, the eHealth Exchange serves as a useful go-between for the network's ONC-funded pilot to demonstrate the feasibility of its proposed approach to enabling behavioral health data exchange.
Read MoreHow Behavioral Health Complicates Health Data Exchange
Date: September 12th, 2016Source: HealthIT InteroperabilityTopics: Patient Engagement, CORHIO Network, Behavioral HealthThe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has played an instrumental role in promoting the development of health information exchanges, such as in Colorado and at the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO).
Read MoreState HIE News and Updates 9-2-16
Date: September 2nd, 2016Source: HIE AnswersTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, Public Health ReportingNearly 70 CORHIO Participants Have Now Reported Close to 500,000 Immunizations to CIIS Using HIE – By using existing HIE technology, CORHIO is working with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (@CDPHE) to help with the submission of immunization reports. Through the secure CORHIO network 494,695 immunizations have been reported since June 2013.
Read MoreHIE Data Supporting Value-Based Care Management in Colorado
Date: August 1st, 2016Source: HIE AnswersTopics: HIE, Accountable Care, Patient Event NotificationsCommunity Health Partnership, an Accountable Care Organization in the Colorado Springs area, is utilizing data from the CORHIO health information exchange for care management and patient interventions.
Read MoreNew system lets some civilian doctors see military health records
Date: July 12th, 2016Source: Military TimesTopics: HIE, Military Health, CORHIO NetworkThe Pentagon’s Health Information Exchange Initiative, launched June 1, allows private physicians and some government organizations to view medical records held by military hospitals or clinics, if they are treating patients with such records.
Read MoreState HIE News and Updates 6-30-16
Date: June 30th, 2016Source: HIE AnswersTopics: HIE, CORHIO NetworkThe Community Health Partnership, in a year-long beta test, partnered last June with CORHIO (@corhio) to streamline access to electronic patient records across several regional providers. Since the year long test was successful among AspenPointe behavioral health, Colorado Springs Health Partners and Peak Vista Community Health Centers, the group is ready to roll out a longitudinal health records database across all regional providers, to include active-duty military and TRICARE patients.
Read MoreGroundbreaking effort will address obesity, mental health in Denver area
Date: June 29th, 2016Source: Denver Business JournalTopics: Population HealthThe Colorado Health Institute received a $1.9 million grant Wednesday from the Colorado Health Foundation to lead CHORDS, the Colorado Health Observation Regional Data Service. It will work in conjunction with local health agencies in seven metro-area counties, the University of Colorado-Denver, Denver Health and CORHIO, the state’s largest health information exchange network.
Read MoreElectronic health record system set to expand
Date: June 20th, 2016Source: Colorado Springs Business JournalTopics: CORHIO Network, Accountable CareThe Community Health Partnership, in a year-long beta test, partnered last June with the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, or CORHIO, a health information exchange network based in Denver, to streamline access to electronic patient records across several regional providers.
Read MoreState HIE News and Updates 6-15-16
Date: June 15th, 2016Source: HIE AnswersTopics: CORHIO Network, PathologyCORHIO (@CORHIO) manages one of the country’s largest and most successful health information exchange (HIE) networks and works to improve healthcare through the use of information technology and data exchange. The organization is growing every day and just recently signed an agreement with Gastroenterology of the Rockies which makes them the first independent pathology lab to contribute to the CORHIO Community Health Record.
Read MoreState HIE News and Updates 5-19-16
Date: May 19th, 2016Source: HIE AnswersTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, RadiologyCORHIO manages one of the country’s largest and most successful health information exchange (HIE) networks and works to improve healthcare through the use of information technology and data exchange.
Read MoreTwelve Colorado Imaging Centers Now Connected To CORHIO Health Information Exchange
Date: May 13th, 2016Source: HIE AnswersTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, RadiologyHealth Images, its sister center Colorado Springs Imaging, and CORHIO (@CORHIO) announced a ground-breaking partnership that will enable more efficient healthcare services for patients across the Front Range. Health Images is now sending radiology results, including MRIs, CT scans, X-rays, Ultrasounds, and other diagnostic imaging tests performed at their 12 locations, into the secure CORHIO health information exchange (HIE) network for authorized caregivers to access. This marks the first imaging center connection to the CORHIO HIE.
Read More12 imaging centers now sending rad results to CORHIO HIE
Date: May 6th, 2016Source: Clinical InnovationTopics: CORHIO Network, RadiologyImaging company Health Images and the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), both based out of Denver, have announced that Health Images will now be sending radiology results performed at its 12 locations into the CORHIO health information exchange (HIE).
Read MoreHISTalk News
Date: April 29th, 2016Source: HISTalkTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, RadiologyHealth Images, a chain of 12 imaging centers in Colorado, joins the CORHIO HIE. It is the first organization of its kind to join CORHIO, which has connected 54 hospitals and over 4,000 office-based physicians since it was founded in 2010.
Read MoreSHIN-NY HIE Successfully Implements Patient Record Lookup
Date: April 28th, 2016Source: HealthIT InteroperabilityTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, RadiologyCORHIO, in partnership with Health Images and Colorado Springs Imaging, has added twelve of its health imaging locations to the CORHIO repository, expanding the number of patient images accessible to providers. These are the first health imaging locations to join a Colorado HIE.
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