Category: CORHIO in the News
How Does the Colorado Immunization Information System (CIIS) Benefit Colorado’s Public Health Efforts?
Date: July 31st, 2019Source: Colorado Childrens Immunization CoalitionTopics: Public Health Reporting, Colorado Department of Health Care, Policy and Financing (HCPF), ImmunizationsCCIC sat down with Heather Roth, the Deputy Immunization Branch Chief at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), to discuss the Colorado Immunization Information System (CIIS) and how it works to benefit Colorado’s public health response efforts, data exchange, and clinical decision making.
Read MoreMix of Hopes, Trepidations Await Roll-Out of TEFCA Framework
Date: July 26th, 2019Source: Healthcare InnovationTopics: HIE, Interoperability, TEFCAKate Horle, the chief operating officer and privacy officer for the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), helped draft the response to ONC from the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) of which CORHIO is a member. She stresses that SHIEC was encouraged by several changes ONC made in response to stakeholder responses to the first draft.
Read MoreSummit County jail rolls out new tools for treating opioid addiction, data sharing
Date: July 1st, 2019Source: Summit Daily NewsTopics: Care Coordination, Medication Reconciliation, criminal justice system, opioidsFinally, the jail is partnering with the Colorado Office of Behavioral Health and the state’s health information exchange networks, CORHIO and Quality Health Network, to bring new data sharing capabilities to the county.
Read MoreRocky Mountain HIT: On Colorado’s Ambitious Health IT Roadmap
Date: June 24th, 2019Source: Healthcare InnovationTopics: HIE, Health IT, Colorado Healthcare Leaders, CORHIO Governance & LeadershipSome very, very exciting things are happening these days in Colorado. Among them, the state’s policy leaders have created a statewide Health IT Roadmap—something that may be unique in the country; certainly, it remains on the absolute leading edge.
Read MoreWhere the Rubber Meets the Road: In Colorado, It’s Around Statewide Interoperability
Date: June 18th, 2019Source: Healthcare InnovationTopics: HIE, Interoperability, CORHIO NetworkCORHIO Morgan Honea knows the critical success factors for long-term, sustained HIE success—and he'll be sharing his secrets of success next month at our upcoming Healthcare Innovation Summit in Denver
Read MoreCORHIO’s Morgan Honea: Interoperability Is Moving Forward Solidly in Colorado
Date: June 18th, 2019Source: Healthcare InnovationTopics: Interoperability, CORHIO Network, Accountable Care, CORHIO Notifications, InnovationStatewide HIE CORHIO is moving forward in a number of areas to bring greater interoperability and interconnectedness to Colorado healthcare, reports CORHIO CEO Morgan Honea
Read MoreCORHIO Adds to Executive Team
Date: May 29th, 2019Source: Colorado Managed CareTopics: CORHIO Governance & LeadershipThe Board of Directors at CORHIO has announced that Annie Harrington will be the organization’s next chief legal officer. She most recently served as principal in the international law firm, Squire Patton Boggs in its Denver office.
Read MoreMeet Our Entrepreneur of 2019: Mike Biselli
Date: May 1st, 2019Source: ColoradoBizTopics: Healthcare Innovation, DentalThere have been early blooms from this deep-rooted idea. “Lutheran Medical Center met and collaborated with Nymbl Science, a fall-prevention technology. That happened after they met on campus,” Biselli says. “CORHIO and Delta Dental created a huge partnership. UC Health is engaging with numerous startups on campus. Same with Kaiser.”
Read MoreCORHIO Names Next Chief Information Officer
Date: April 10th, 2019Source: Colorado Managed CareTopics: CORHIO Governance & LeadershipDeanna Towne has been named the next chief information officer for CORHIO. She formerly served as the IT director and acting deputy chief customer officer of the Governor’s Office of Information Technology under the Hickenlooper administration. In that position, she was the health IT executive support for both the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Finance and the Department of Human Services.
Read MoreColorado BioScience Association Explores New Possibilities for Medtech at Annual Symposium
Date: March 5th, 2019Source: AP NewsTopics: BlockchainColorado BioScience Association (CBSA) focuses on the opportunities offered by blockchain technology for medical device companies with insights from Colorado thought leaders focused on blockchain adoption in healthcare, including BurstIQ and CORHIO, at its annual Medical Device Symposium. The event will be held at the Westin Westminster on March 7.
Read MoreStudy shows major gaps in communication between hospital and home health care clinicians
Date: February 26th, 2019Source: News MedicalTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, Home Health, Patient CareA survey of Colorado home health care clinicians (HHCs) revealed that 60 percent said they had not received enough information to guide patient treatment while 52 percent said patients often had unrealistic expectations of the kind of care they would receive
Read MoreHome health care clinicians often lack adequate hospital information
Date: February 25th, 2019Source: University of Colorado NewsTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, Home HealthThey were able to electronically access notes, orders, lab and radiology results and referrals. Some 12 percent of respondents reported positive experiences when accessing the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO, www.corhio.org) about hospital admissions.
Read MoreQuality of Hospital Communication and Patient Preparation for Home Health Care: Results From a Statewide Survey of Home Health Care Nurses and Staff
Date: February 22nd, 2019Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association Topics: HIE, Care Coordination, Home Health6 respondents (12%) favorably described accessing a regional information health exchange, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO, www.corhio.org), to acquire clinical information. Within free-text responses, participants described being able to access CORHIO for information about hospital admissions to any participating hospital. One participant elaborated in free text about CORHIO: “The cost is modest and the access is invaluable.”
Read MoreStories From The Colorado Innovation Community
Date: February 11th, 2019Source: Innovators CoLabTopics: Colorado Healthcare Leaders, Data Analytics, DentalOne serendipitous encounter at Catalyst has led to a new collaboration between Delta Dental of Colorado and CORHIO (Colorado Regional Health Information Organization).
Read MorePartnership at Catalyst
Date: February 6th, 2019Source: Colorado InnoTopics: Data Analytics, Healthcare Innovation, DentalA chance encounter at Denver healthcare hub Catalyst HTI has led to a partnership between two tenants looking to solve oral health problems.
Read MoreAll under one roof: Innovators are reimagining healthcare with a shared purpose at Catalyst HTI in Denver
Date: January 30th, 2019Source: MGMATopics: Colorado Healthcare Leaders, InnovationThe seven-story, 180,000-square-foot facility covers an entire city block in Denver’s River North neighborhood. Tenants include a host of startups along with Kaiser Permanente, UCHealth, MGMA, Prime Health, the American Osteopathic Association, Delta Dental, CORHIO, the University of Denver, Velóce Corporation, Hitachi Consulting and Innova Emergency Medical Associates, to name a few.
Read MoreWhat is Health Information Exchange and How Can Nurses Use It?
Date: December 17th, 2018Source: Colorado NurseTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, CORHIO Network, Patient Care, NursingWhether you’re a nurse at a hospital or physician’s office, in a big system or small, you can benefit from being able to look patients up on PatientCare 360, CORHIO’s portal to the information stored in the database.
Read MoreNew West Physicians to use HIE to see ‘big picture’ in patient care
Date: December 7th, 2018Source: Health Data ManagementTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, CORHIO NetworkThe decision to join the health data exchange, known as CORHIO, will give the practice secure access to information that includes lab results, updated patient records and demographic information, among other data types.
Read MoreNew West Physicians (CO) connects to CORHIO, giving its Denver-based primary care practices access to the HIE’s data-exchange services.
Date: November 19th, 2018Source: HISTalkTopics: CORHIO NetworkNew West Physicians connects to CORHIO, giving its Denver-based primary care practices access to the HIE’s data-exchange services.
Read MoreHIE 2.0: CORHIO’s Leaders Map a Pathway to Advanced Data-Sharing Success in Colorado
Date: November 7th, 2018Source: Healthcare InformaticsTopics:CORHIO’s leaders have been involved in intensive work to improve data quality, while expanding data-sharing more broadly
Read MoreHealth care providers should adopt new technology
Date: October 11th, 2018Source: Boulder Daily CameraTopics: HIE, Interoperability, Colorado Hospitals & Health SystemsNext time you go to see your doctors, ask if they can freely send electronic versions of your health information to other doctors or facilities.
Read MoreCloud-Based Medical Registries Make Patients’ Wishes Known
Date: October 10th, 2018Topics: Advance Care PlanningMost people don’t go around with living wills and “Do Not Resuscitate” orders in their back pockets. For that reason, when an emergency strikes and a patient is unable to speak for him or herself, family members or physicians have to make critical health-care decisions without full knowledge of the patient’s desires.
Read MoreCORHIO Uses Wolters Kluwer Health IT to Improve Interoperability
Date: August 21st, 2018Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, InteroperabilityCORHIO implemented two Wolters Kluwer health IT solutions to improve interoperability and health data standardization.
Read MoreHow a Denver blockchain firm is making sense of health-care data
Date: August 20th, 2018Source: Denver Business JournalTopics: HIE, Interoperability, LOINCCompany says technology could revolutionize HIPAA-compliant data aggregation and reporting.
Read MoreColorado health data organizations partner with startup to pilot blockchain-based platform
Date: August 15th, 2018Source: Denver Business JournalTopics: HIE, Blockchain, State Innovation Model, Quality MeasuresThree Colorado clinical health data organizations have partnered with the Denver-based blockchain health-care data company BurstIQ in a first-of-its-kind project funded by a state initiative, a news release said Wednesday.
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