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- September 10, 2013
CHA Selects Alteryx Analytics Software to Improve Health Care Quality Statewide
Read moreAlteryx, Inc., the leading provider of Strategic Analytics software, and the Colorado Hospital Association (CHA), the leading voice of the Colorado hospital and health system community, today announced that CHA has chosen Alteryx Strategic Analytics to enable the Association to more efficiently and accurately evaluate the impact of legislative...
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Data Breaches: Discovery and Prevention Techniques
Read more“Most hospitals don’t know all the data breaches they have,” says Mac McMillan, current chair of the privacy and security task force at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He had very recently worked with a large hospital system that inadvertently provided a patient online access to another...
- September 10, 2013
The Great EHR Migration: Why Two Organizations Made the Switch
Read moreMore than one in six providers currently using an electronic health record system has plans to change vendors within the next year. Many of these providers are physician practices upgrading to meet meaningful use requirements or replacing a poorly-functioning system, but hospitals have increasingly been switching to new vendors...
- September 10, 2013
National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health are: A Blueprint for Advancing and Sustaining CLAS Policy and Practice
Read moreHealth equity is the attainment of the highest level of health for all people (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health , 2011). Currently, individuals across the United States from various cultural backgrounds are unable to attain their highest level of health for several reasons, including the...
- September 10, 2013
Southern Colorado agencies seek mental health grant to expand EMS
Read moreA seven-bed behavioral health ward and expanded respite and residential services are at the center of a plan to beef up mental health care in the Pikes Peak region – all with the goal of keeping many of those patients out of hospital emergency rooms. A consortium involving the...
- September 10, 2013
Improving health and reducing premature mortality in people with severe Mental illness
Read moreClick here to read the Department of Health and Human Services’s grant application requirements.
- September 10, 2013
Medicaid Handbook: Interface with Behavioral Health Services
Read morePrice: FREE Reviews Medicaid and its role in financing services and treatment for mental health disorders and substance use disorders. Discusses services included in state Medicaid plans, the role of the provider, reimbursement, and other factors related to Medicaid. Click here to find out more.
- September 10, 2013
Can health IT reduce health disparities? New ONC report explores opportunities
Read moreInequality related to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status is one of our nation’s most vexing problems, and it affects health status, access to health care, and health care quality. Unfortunately, health disparities in access to quality care are common. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) 2011 National...
- September 10, 2013
Geographic variation in access to care — The relationship with quality
Read moreThree decades of research focused predominantly on costs and the use of services among Medicare beneficiaries has repeatedly found wide regional variations in health care experiences and health system performance.1Much less attention has been paid to variations in access to care and their associated implications for quality of care...
- September 10, 2013
Health & Wellness Resource Library
Read moreClick here to review resources such as: A Healthy Heart, Breathe Deep, Eat Wise Move Often, and many more on The Centers for Family and Children’s website.
