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- August 15, 2011
Patient-Centered Medical Home: An Overview and Colorado’s Landscape
Read moreA Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is not a place but a concept. PCMH facilitates partnerships between individual patients, their personal physicians or care providers, and the patient’s family. It is a way of coordinating all health services in a quality, cost-effective and accessible manner through use of a team...
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Dental Event in Morgan County
Read moreThe Colorado Mission of Mercy, or COMOM, is scheduled for October 21 & 22 in Brush. This event aims to serve adults of all ages, as well as children, but particularly aims to treat patients who are unable to afford care. This large scale 2-day dental clinic will have...
- August 15, 2011
Colorado Health Benefit Exchange Board Updates
Read moreThe Colorado Health Benefits Exchange (COHBE) board will hold its next meeting this Thursday, August 11th from 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM in the Legislative Services Building (200 E. 14th Ave., across the street from the State Capitol). It has not been determined if the meeting will be broadcast...
- August 15, 2011
Med schools seek right fit for rural practice
Read moreFamily physician Frank Swisher, DO, is up every day at 4:30 a.m. to see patients at the nearby hospital before heading to his office. He works an average of 80 hours a week at his solo practice in Jane Lew, W.Va., a rural town with a population of less...
- August 15, 2011
Work, Education and Lifelong Learning Simulation (WELLS) Center
Read moreHighly specialized training for rural hospitals in Colorado: Training is investment in health care training and patient safety A training initiative from the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) and Colorado Division of Labor and Employment (CDLE) will provide customized, no-cost medical training to Colorado’s rural health care providers. The...
- August 15, 2011
CCHIT offers certifications for ‘homegrown’ EHRs
Read moreCertification of electronic health record products is the first step toward achieving meaningful use. But what if you are a healthcare system operating under legacy software, customized commercial products or homegrown EHR systems that would cost hundreds of millions to replace with a new product already certified by the...
- August 15, 2011
UnitedHealth Group Report Identifies Innovative Solutions for Rural Health Care Coverage, Access and Quality Challenges
Read moreRural Americans experience more chronic health conditions such as diabetes and heart disease than urban and suburban residents, have greater difficulties accessing high-quality care, and from 2014 millions more of them will likely participate in Medicaid and government-subsidized insurance, according to a new paper released today by the UnitedHealth...
- August 15, 2011
Safety Net Clinic Week is Coming Soon—Are You Ready?
Read moreSafety Net Clinic Week is just around the corner, August 22-26. This week is a great opportunity to educate lawmakers and communities about the diversity of Colorado’s safety net. Many rural health clinics and community-funded safety net clinics will be participating by hosting state and federal elected officials to...
- August 12, 2011
Update from CHI on Rural APNs and PAs in Colorado
Read moreColorado Health Institute’s Jackie Colby presented new findings about rural nurse practitioners (APN) and physician assistants (PA) practice patterns at CRHC’s annual conference on Thursday, August 11. The new analysis, based on respondents to CHI’s previous APN and PA surveys, found that about 11 percent of both PAs and...
- August 11, 2011
Dual-eligible Medicare/Medicaid Beneficiaries
Read moreEarlier this summer, Colorado received $1 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to plan an integrated model of care for individuals who are dually-eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. A new post from Health Reform GPS gives a detailed summary about some of the challenges in coordinating...
