Category: CORHIO in the News
16 Regional HIOs Partner to Address Data Exchange Challenges
Date: February 19th, 2014Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewTopics: HIE, InteroperabilitySixteen regional health information exchange organizations from throughout the Midwest and Rocky Mountains states have banded together to address the challenges of exchanging patient information across state and regional lines. The new partnership, called the Mid-States Consortium of Health Information Organizations, will advocate for HIE models, like query-based exchanges, that better allow patient information to be accessed outside of the patient's home state or region. The consortium will also focus on the unique HIE needs of rural providers in these states.
Read MoreThe CEO View of Health IT
Date: February 3rd, 2014Source: Health Data Management - Free registration required to viewTopics: Health ITAsk chief executive officers of provider organizations for their views on health information technology and you'll get the same answer again and again: It's all about better, accountable and patient-centered care. And that means it's all about interoperability and data.
Read MoreGrant Boosts Behavioral Health Care Coordination for Colorado HIE
Date: January 24th, 2014Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics: Care Coordination, Behavioral HealthThe Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) is boosting its health information exchange (HIE) with a grant that will enable primary care providers to be better coordinated with behavioral healthcare practitioners. The Rose Foundation, a nonprofit based in Denver, has awarded its second grant to CORHIO in this area. With this latest funding, the RHIO can improve the HIE's technical infrastructure to improve care for behavioral health patients.
Read MoreColorado Behavioral Health Exchange Receives Grant to Expand
Date: January 23rd, 2014Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, Behavioral HealthThe Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has received a grant from the Rose Community Foundation to improve its behavioral health information exchange (HIE). Through the HIE, healthcare professionals can share patient information and provide better patient care.
Read MoreColorado is an Early Adopter in Health IT
Date: November 1st, 2013Source: Northern Colorado Business ReportTopics: Health IT, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsColorado doctors and hospitals are outpacing the national average in their adoption of electronic medical records. Despite substantial costs and downtime associated with installation and training, Colorado's adoption rate is about 74 percent, meaning that nearly three-quarters of providers are now using them. The national average is 72 percent, according to data provided by the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, or CORHIO, a health-information exchange working to establish electronic connections between the state's providers.
Read MoreCORHIO Connects State's Largest Medical Labs to HIE
Date: September 11th, 2013Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: CORHIO Network, LaboratoriesAdd another milestone to the achievements of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organizations (CORHIO) after it has added the largest medical laboratories in the state to participate in statewide health information exchange. According to an announcement by the Colorado network, Quest Diagnostics is now connected to CORHIO, joining Labcorp, Colorado Laboratory Services (CLS), and nearly all of the state’s large hospital laboratories as active participants on the CORHIO HIE network.
Read MoreStatewide HIEs: The Development of a Sustainable Model
Date: September 6th, 2013Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewTopics: HIE, InteroperabilityIn March 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT awarded 56 states, eligible territories and qualified state designated entities grant money to develop health information exchanges. These grants fostered the development of many HIEs that have succeeded in joining physicians and hospitals together for data exchange. The more than $9 million from ONC, along with the selection of a technology vendor, allowed the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization to "ramp up" operations, says CEO Larry Wolk, MD. CORHIO now has 45 hospitals participating with the network, including all hospitals in the state with more than 100 beds, and many behavioral health centers and office-based physicians. The HIE currently has data on 2.5 million patients — half of the state's total population of 5 million.
Read MoreBe Prepared: Lessons from an Extended Outage of a Hospital’s EHR System
Date: August 30th, 2013Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics: HIE, EHRs, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsIf your hospital has deployed an electronic health record (EHR) system, you probably have a contingency plan in the event of a system outage. After all, computing systems go down, and when an EHR system is not working, it affects nearly every aspect of a hospital’s operations, from patient care to admissions to finance to supply chain and more.
Read MoreColorado CIO Interview: Health Information Exchange in Colorado
Date: August 28th, 2013Source: Health System CIOTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health Systems, Colorado Healthcare LeadersAlthough Steve Shirley believes the 30 years he spent in banking was a “great prep career” for health IT, he admits he still had a lot to learn when he took the helm as CIO at Parkview Medical Center in 2009. So he decided to start rounding to strengthen his knowledge of all things clinical, and he hasn’t stopped. In this interview, Shirley talks about the paradigm shift required to migrate to Meditech 6.0, how he’s working to bridge the gap between the IT and clinical worlds, his mobile device management strategy, and the “progressive” HIE landscape in Colorado.
Read MoreMultifaceted MD to Lead Colorado Public Health Department
Date: August 23rd, 2013Source: Government Health ITTopics: Colorado Healthcare Leaders, CORHIO Governance & LeadershipThe incoming executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is steeped in medicine, insurance and most recently health information exchange. A University of Vermont-educated medical doctor, Wolk worked at the medical director of ambulatory pediatrics and adolescent medicine at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver, for five years, and then went on to work in insurance, as senior medical creditor of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Colorado and as senior healthcare executive at Cigna. Then he spent five years as president and COO of Correctional Healthcare Companies, a criminal justice healthcare contractor working in 27 states, with corporate headquarters outside of Denver. For the last year, Wolk has worked as the executive director of CORHIO, the state-designated health information exchange, which now has every large hospital in the state participating.
Read MoreHealth Information Exchanges to Benefit Payers, Injured Workers
Date: July 29th, 2013Source: WorkCompCentral - subscription required to view full articleTopics: HIE, Health PlansThe use of health information exchanges that link medical records systems of hospitals, doctors, laboratories and other health care providers have accelerated since the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. “With the HIE, if an employee authorizes the use of patient information by their treating physician, then theoretically the doctor is going to be able to look at all of the patient’s history and treat based on the whole history,” said Mike Allen, principal at Allen Management Consulting. “Right now, when someone is injured at the workplace, generally the physician is treating the injury that is presented to them without having access to the full file. That is going to be the primary benefit of the HIE. It should be a benefit to the injured worker.”
Read MoreAll of Colorado's Large Hospitals Now Participating in Health Information Exchange
Date: July 22nd, 2013Source: Denver PostTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsAll Colorado hospitals with more than 100 licensed beds are now participating in the state's health information exchange network. The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization announced Monday that Exempla Healthcare has signed a contract to participate in its health information exchange. Exempla operates three hospitals in Colorado: Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette; Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge and Exempla Saint Joseph in Denver.
Read MoreAll Colorado Hospitals With 100 or More Beds Now Part of an HIE
Date: July 22nd, 2013Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsThe Colorado Regional Health Information Organization has announced that all hospitals in the state with 100 or more beds are currently connected to, or are in the process of connecting to, a health information exchange. The announcement follows Denver-based Exempla Healthcare, which operates three hospitals in the state, signing a contract to join the CORHIO HIE.
Read MoreMore Colorado Hospitals Ink HIE Deals
Date: July 22nd, 2013Source: Healthcare IT NewsTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsMore than half of all hospitals in Colorado have now connected or are in the process of connecting to a health information exchange network. The Colorado regional health information exchange announced Monday that after inking its most recent HIE contract, 29 hospitals are connected to CORHIO, and 15 more are in the process of connecting, representing all Colorado hospitals with more than 100 beds.
Read MoreMore Hospitals Connecting to Colorado HIE
Date: July 22nd, 2013Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics: HIE, CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsAll Colorado hospitals with more than 100 licensed beds have connected or are in the process to connect to a health information exchange (HIE) network, after the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) inked its most recent HIE contract with Exempla Healthcare in Denver.
Read MoreAssembly Required: What Physicians Need to Do to Improve the Care Experience and Provide Greater Value
Date: July 12th, 2013Source: Colorado Medicine, a publication of the Colorado Medical SocietyTopics: Physician Workflow, Value-Based Care, Patient CareHealth care in the United States must change. No longer will anyone dispute that the system is expensive, wasteful, exclusionary, and in some respects, harmful to patients. Physicians' quality of life has suffered as they have endured increased administrative burden, steep costs and learning curves for new technology. With the health care system at a breaking point, it is imperative to study and redesign the entire cycle, from preventative medicine to care delivery and from coordination to payment for services.
Read MoreCORHIO to Link 118 Additional Providers to HIE
Date: April 29th, 2013Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics: Primary Care, CORHIO NetworkSouth Metro Primary Care (SMPC), one of the largest primary care independent practice associations in the Denver metro area, along with their medical management company Physician Health Partners (PHP), have announced plans to connect the electronic health records (EHR) of its 118 primary care providers to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) health information exchange (HIE).
Read MoreMore Than 100 Denver-based PCPs to be Connected to CORHIO HIE
Date: April 26th, 2013Source: PhysBizTechTopics: Primary Care, CORHIO NetworkSouth Metro Primary Care, one of the largest primary care independent practice associations in the Denver area, will connect the electronic health records of its 118 primary care providers to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization HIE.
Read MoreCORHIO Signs On More Than 100 Docs
Date: April 26th, 2013Source: Healthcare IT NewsTopics: Primary Care, CORHIO NetworkSouth Metro Primary Care (SMPC), one of the largest primary care independent practice associations in the Denver area, will connect the electronic health records of its 118 primary care providers to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization HIE. South Metro Primary Care is participating in one of the 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations in the U.S.
Read MoreHospital Poised to Take a Go at CORHIO
Date: April 23rd, 2013Source: UCHealth InsiderTopics: CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsIn a move that promises to help patients and providers across Colorado, University of Colorado Hospital is joining the statewide nonprofit Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) network. Supporters say plugging into CORHIO will help community physicians, laboratories and other care facilities sort through an integrated electronic medical record (EMR) to find exactly what care and diagnoses a UCH patient received.
Read MoreU. of Colo. Hospital joins CORHIO
Date: March 22nd, 2013Source: Modern Healthcare (free registration may be required to view)Topics: CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsThe University of Colorado Hospital, a member of the University of Colorado Health system, has signed an agreement to join the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization. The Aurora, Colo., hospital will connect its Epic electronic health-record system with CORHIO's health information exchange, which currently includes 28 hospitals, more than 660 office-based providers, 38 long-term and post-acute care facilities, four behavioral health centers and two medical labs.
Read MoreHospitals, Doctors Offices Now Able to Share Patients’ Health Records
Date: March 19th, 2013Source: FOX31 Denver NewsTopics: HIE, Interoperability, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsMaggie Lamitie is feeling fine now, but a few months ago she had quite a scare with her heart. “I knew there was something really wrong and I knew I needed attention right away,” Maggie said. She rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital, a facility she had never been to before. But St. Joseph’s is part of a hospital system that shares electronic health records. In a situation where every second counts, the ER doctors at St. Joseph’s were able to see all of Maggie’s records at the University of Colorado Hospital, and treat her quickly. “I thought it was a wonderful system, and I was grateful,” she said. Now that kind of record sharing is expanding.
Read MoreColo. RHIO Gains Seven Hospital Members
Date: March 15th, 2013Source: Modern Healthcare (free registration may be required to view)Topics: CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsThe Denver-based Colorado Regional Health Information Organization just saw its hospital membership jump by 25% with the addition of seven Denver-area hospitals to the health information exchange organization. The seven new members of CORHIO are: Medical Center of Aurora and Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital, Aurora; Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center (which includes Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke's) and Rose Medical Center, all Denver; Swedish Medical Center, Englewood; Sky Ridge Medical Center, Lone Tree; and North Suburban Medical Center, Thornton.
Read MoreMeaningful Health Information Exchange
Date: March 6th, 2013Source: Leadership, a journal of the Healthcare Financial Management AssociationTopics: HIE, EHRs, Long-Term CareHealth information exchange means different things to different stakeholders. To a solo practitioner in Pasadena, Calif., it means having ready access to information about the treatment her patients have received in the local hospital and from other physicians—even though she does not have an electronic health record (EHR). To a skilled nursing facility in Boulder, Colo., it means an end to 50-page faxes when patients are transferred from the local hospital. “This new portal allows us to grab information that is important to us and not be inundated with irrelevant stuff we do not need,” says Patrick McAteer, CFO, Frasier Meadows Retirement Community.
Read MoreHealthONE Joins Colorado RHIO
Date: February 14th, 2013Source: For The RecordTopics: CORHIO Network, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsCORHIO, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, recently announced that HealthONE has signed an agreement to participate in its secure health information exchange (HIE) network. The seven HealthONE hospitals join 28 other hospitals around the state already connected to CORHIO, including Centura Health which operates 13 hospitals connected to the HIE network, of which seven are located in Metro Denver. HealthONE is a subsidiary of the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), which is the nation's largest private hospital system.
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