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Category: CORHIO in the News
CORHIO Sees Success with Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
Date: March 5th, 2015Source: Healthcare IT NewsTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, Hospital Readmissions, Long-Term Care, Home Health, SNF, PatientCare 360The ability to access and communicate the right patient information, at the right time, in the right place, is critical. To illustrate this point, imagine an elderly woman, Betty, who lives alone and has two chronic medical conditions. She takes a number of medications and receives care from multiple specialists in addition to her primary care physician. Betty’s specialists try their best to send test results and notes to her PCP in a timely fashion, but sometimes it can take several weeks to process the information. In the interim, Betty misunderstands her doctor’s instructions. She takes her medications incorrectly, prompting an issue that leads her to call 911. Unfortunately, she has had three emergency department visits and two hospital admissions in the past six months. As this example illustrates, timely physician and provider communication are crucial to helping patients like Betty manage chronic conditions and avoid unnecessary hospital visits. Fortunately, the use of health information exchange and better technology can help to improve care coordination.
Read MoreProviders Plug In To Health Tech Networks
Date: March 2nd, 2015Source: Provider MagazineTopics: HIE, Home HealthFor coordinators at Professional Home Health Care (PHHC), a Boulder, Colo.-based home health agency serving more than 700 individuals across the state, tracking clients after they had been admitted into a hospital had become something of a game of hide and go seek. Since PHHC staff didn’t always know where their clients had been admitted, they would first have to call around to as many as eight different hospitals. After tracking them down, they then would have to make another series of calls to learn who would be responsible for their discharge. Once staff secured the discharge planner’s contact information, they had to make regular calls to check on their clients’ status, ask what treatments or medications the hospital was administering to them, and find out when they were expected to go home.
Read MoreRegional Extension Center Continues to Help Practices Transform with PCMH
Date: February 19th, 2015Source: NCQA BlogTopics: Transformation Support Services, Regional Extension Center, Medical Home ModelOver the past five years, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) funded 62 Regional Extension Centers (REC) to help more than 100,000 priority primary care providers* (PPCP) adopt and use electronic health records. With the REC program in its fifth year, a number of RECs are expanding services to include consulting models. One is the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO). After achieving its goal of helping almost 3,000 providers with EHR implementation, CORHIO, in cooperation with several of its former REC partners, announced it will help providers with practice transformation, including future stages of Meaningful Use, quality initiatives, PQRS and medical home recognition, on a fee-for-service basis.
Read MoreColorado HIE Usage More Than Doubles in 2014
Date: February 12th, 2015Source: Health Data ManagementTopics: HIE, CORHIO NetworkCORHIO has announced the number of participating healthcare users and data available in the network grew by 111 percent and 118 percent respectively in 2014. This marks the third consecutive year of triple-digit growth rates for the Colorado health information exchange organization.
Read MoreStatewide-HIE Sustainability in Colorado: CORHIO’s Success Story
Date: February 11th, 2015Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics: HIE, CORHIO NetworkAt a time when the broad survival of health information exchanges (HIEs) is in question nationwide, a number of such organizations are actually flourishing, among them the Denver-based Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), which is a public, non-profit HIE run by a private entity. Indeed, on Feb. 6, CORHIO’s leaders announced that their organization had seen the number of participating healthcare users in its network grow by 111 percent, and the amount of data available in the network grow by 118 percent, in the past year. That marks the third consecutive year of triple-digit growth rates for the organization.
Read MoreColorado HIE Experiences Triple Digit Growth in 2014
Date: February 6th, 2015Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics: HIE, CORHIO NetworkThe Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has announced that its network has experienced triple digit growth in 2014. The health information exchange (HIE) organization said that the number of participating healthcare users and data available in the network grew by 111 percent and 118 percent respectively in the past year. This marks the third consecutive year of triple-digit growth rates for the Colorado HIE.
Read MoreSurvivor: Edition HIE | Four Statewide HIEs Are Among Those Setting an Example for Other States
Date: January 26th, 2015Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics: HIE, CORHIO NetworkCan health information exchanges (HIEs) survive the present moment? Many of the statewide and regional HIEs created with wonderfully high-minded intent, but without a hardheaded business focus on long-term sustainability, are finding it difficult to make ends meet as the grant money begins to wither. At the same time, a small number of statewide HIEs are moving forward strongly, buttressed by broad stakeholder support, state government-level policy directives, and above all, clever strategy.
Read MoreA Prescription to Treat 'Polyprovider' Syndrome
Date: January 4th, 2015Source: KevinMD.com (blog)Topics: HIE, Care Coordination, Physician WorkflowIn the United States, we train health care providers on poor people. This is no secret — most medical schools and residencies are in lower income areas. If you have Medicaid or no insurance, you are more likely to find care in an office or hospital where medical students, residents, nursing students, and other trainees rotate; Blue Cross patients don’t let interns watch their childbirth. Even though my residency emphasized continuity of care, patients often had a different resident for each appointment.
Read MoreCORHIO Adds Eight-Hospital Health System to Its HIE
Date: December 29th, 2014Source: Health Data ManagementTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsThe Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has announced that HealthONE, an eight-hospital system in the Denver area, has successfully connected to its health information exchange (HIE) network. Combined, the eight hospitals accounted for more than 1.2 million patient encounters in the last year. The health system will join 47 hospitals and more than 2,100 physician providers in the ability to conduct secure health information exchange. With the addition of the HealthONE hospitals, 21 of the metro area’s 23 acute care hospitals are now actively exchanging patient information on CORHIO’s protected HIE network.
Read MoreCORHIO Adds Eight Hospitals to Health Information Exchange
Date: December 18th, 2014Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsHealthONE, an eight-hospital system in the Denver area, has announced its successful connection to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO). The health system which saw 1.2 million patient encounters over the past year, will join forty-seven hospitals and more than 2,100 physician providers in the ability to conduct secure health information exchange to improve care coordination and patient safety.
Read MoreColo. Regional Extension Center Offering Fee-for-Service
Date: November 19th, 2014Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: Regional Extension CenterA top regional extension center (REC) is moving to a fee-for-service model as it plans to support providers transforming their operations for the industry-wide implementation of value-based care. In conjunction with numerous partners, CORHIO provided health IT services to providers at no cost, leveraging funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). With its program goals completed, the Colorado REC is transitioning its organization to offer its services to providers using a fee-for-service model and rebranding itself as a division of CORHIO called Transformation Support Services.
Read MoreColorado's Health Technology REC Program Reaches EHR Goals
Date: November 19th, 2014Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics: Transformation Support Services, Regional Extension CenterCORHIO announced today that the Colorado Regional Extension Center program completed its goal of helping 2,295 primary care providers and 33 rural and critical access hospitals adopt and meaningfully use electronic health record (EHR) technology. Of the 2,295 primary care providers that the Colorado Regional Extension Center program assisted, 1,236 are family practice or general medicine practitioners, 465 are internal medicine or geriatrics providers, 385 are pediatricians and 209 are OB-GYNs.
Read MoreHow HIEs Contribute to Clinical Analytics, Population Health
Date: November 3rd, 2014Source: HealthIT AnalyticsTopics: HIE, Population HealthWith the tight focus on EHR interoperability and data sharing among partners along the healthcare continuum, both public and private health information exchanges (HIEs) are enjoying a moment in the limelight. Private HIEs are growing in popularity among former competitors in local communities, and many statewide organizations have achieved financial sustainability, and are now beginning to expand their services to include clinical analytics and population health management features. HIEs may now be a fact of life, but are they necessary for truly effective analytics? How should analytics-minded providers choose to invest their time, money and infrastructure when it comes to data exchange?
Read MoreIT Spending No Small Undertaking for Providers
Date: October 2nd, 2014Source: FierceHealthITTopics: Health ITAt a Health IT Policy Committee governance subgroup meeting in mid-August, Carl Dvorak, president of EHR vendor Epic said that at least one factor limiting health data exchange is that some health information exchanges nationwide force participants to pay full and exorbitant fees for participation, even in the case of providers using individual services such as access to public health and immunization registries. Morgan Honea, executive director for CORHIO--a nonprofit health information exchange that electronically connects providers throughout the state--who also testified at the meeting, took issue with what he saw as generalizations by Dvorak, calling them "unfair."
Read MoreDigital Medical Records Become Common, but Sharing Remains Challenging
Date: September 30th, 2014Source: New York TimesTopics: HIE, EHRsAs a practicing ear, nose and throat specialist in Ahoskie, N.C., Dr. Raghuvir B. Gelot says that little has frustrated him more than the digital record system he installed a few years ago. The problem: His system, made by one company, cannot share patient records with the local medical center, which uses a program made by another company
Read MoreHospital EHR System Connected To State HIE To Improve Transitions Of Care
Date: September 10th, 2014Source: Health IT OutcomesTopics: HIE, EHRs, Colorado Hospitals & Health Systems, Transitions of CareRecently, Estes Park Medical Center (EPMC) announced it has successfully connected its electronic health record (EHR) system to the health information exchange network of the CORHIO, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization. Estes Park Medical Center is the first independent critical access hospital to connect to the Colorado HIE.
Read MoreReplacing An Ambulance With A Station Wagon
Date: September 5th, 2014Source: NPR - ShotsTopics: Care Coordination, Emergency ServicesWhen a fire department gets a call for medical help, most of them scramble both an ambulance and a fully staffed fire truck. But that's way more than most people need, according to Rick Lewis, chief of emergency medical services at South Metro Fire Rescue Authority in the Denver suburbs. "It's not the prairie and the Old West anymore, where you have to be missing a limb to go to the hospital," Lewis says, "Now it's a sore throat or one day of cold or flu season sometimes, and that can be frustrating for people, I know it is."
Read MoreHIE, Advanced EMR System Make Coordinated Care A Snap
Date: August 27th, 2014Source: Health IT OutcomesTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, Colorado Hospitals & Health Systems, Patient CareBoulder Medical Center doctors are now receiving laboratory results from hospitals and labs around the state without having to wait for faxes or other paper-based methods of communication. This is reducing patient wait times, helping doctors make faster and more accurate clinical decisions, and saving staff time previously spent tracking down patients' medical records.
Read MoreBeing Prepared For a Car Accident Can Save Money, Stress
Date: August 18th, 2014Source: Denver PostTopics: HIE, Emergency ServicesBy definition, the idea of being prepared for an accident is an oxymoron. But you can take some steps that will help make it easier to deal with the aftermath. Anyone who spends much time in a car is at risk for being in a vehicle accident, especially if you're between ages 15 and 24 or over age 65. Emergency department staff nationally treated more than 2.3 million drivers and passengers injured in motor vehicle accidents in 2009.
Read MoreBoulder Medical Center Connects to Statewide HIE
Date: August 8th, 2014Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics: CORHIO NetworkMore than 70 providers at the Colorado-based Boulder Medical Center, a multi-specialty group that also operates an urgent care clinic, are now using health information exchange (HIE), in addition to an advanced electronic medical record (EMR) system, to coordinate care for more than 200,000 annual patient visits. Through the CORHIO secure electronic network, Boulder Medical Center doctors are now receiving laboratory results from hospitals and labs around the state without having to wait for faxes or other paper-based methods of communication.
Read MoreHealthier Colorado Spotlight: True North Health Navigation
Date: August 1st, 2014Source: Colorado Health Institute, Reaching Our PeakTopics: HIE, PatientCare 360, Care Coordination, Emergency ServicesOn a hot morning in the middle of June, Eric Bleeker and Katie Romero jumped into a red and white Ford SUV stocked with medical gear and rushed to a 911 patient who had been bitten by a dog. On the way to the scene, Romero, a nurse practitioner for 15 years, pulled up the patient's medical records on an iPad.
Read MoreThink Globally, Practice Locally: How Population Health Will Improve Health, Reduce Costs
Date: July 14th, 2014Source: Colorado Medicine, a publication of the Colorado Medical SocietyTopics: Population HealthAs physicians, we spend much time with our patients treating diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health. But to really move the needle on such conditions, we need to invest at least as much time – if not more time – on the population-based practice of medicine, rather than merely treating individuals. That’s why the concept of “population health” has gained support from the medical community in recent years.
Read MoreCan Gathering and Managing Patient Information Be Less Challenging?
Date: July 2nd, 2014Source: CAFP News, an official publication of the Colorado Academy of Family PhysiciansTopics: HIE, EHRs, Care CoordinationOne of the biggest complaints from physicians, as well as nurses and other practice staff, is how difficult and time-consuming it can be to collect complete clinical histories for new patients, or manage the needs of complex and chronic disease patients who are seen by multiple physicians. Often there are many phone calls back and forth between offices and stacks of paper faxes for which the relevant patient information is hard to find. Even worse, the information you need today may not arrive until weeks after a referral appointment or hospital discharge. The process of gathering and managing patient records is frustrating, and most health care professionals have just learned to accept it. Although you and your practice staff have developed into expert information gatherers, there is a way to cut back on this tedious and inefficient work.
Read MoreHealth Information Exchange is a Key to Better Transitions, Better Outcomes and Cost Savings
Date: July 1st, 2014Source: LeadingAge MagazineTopics: HIE, Value-Based Care, Long-Term Care, Transitions of CareIn today’s health care environment, the smooth transition of patients between settings has become critical to achieving the triple aim of improved outcomes at lower cost and with better patient experiences. Even so, long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers often lack complete medical information about the people they admit. Most providers still rely on fax and phone communication, rather than using an electronic health information exchange (HIE), which moves clinical information among providers, using national standards, while maintaining the integrity of the data.
Read MoreHow Health Information Exchange Fits Into Population Health
Date: June 5th, 2014Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, Population HealthThe continuum of care is extensive landscape and many patients are beginning to encounter its many different settings as the healthcare industry continues to evolve, both on its own and by mandate. Although the patient is being moved to the center as part of healthcare reform, it is the health of an entire patient population that is gaining more and more attention.
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