The Colorado Health Foundation is hosting a webinar on March 31, 2010 on The Role of the Safety Net in Building Colorado’s Health Information Exchange, Part II. This webinar is the second in a two part series featuring Phyllis Albritton, Executive Director of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization...

As I mentioned last week, there aren’t any new bills posted on the bill tracker, though most of the bills we are following have been scheduled for a hearing. Of note is HB10-1138: Colorado Health Service Corps. CRHC is supporting this bill, which is seeking to rebrand the state...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) proposed rule changes to the 2010 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) recently went into effect. There has been quite a bit of outreach from other state’s in regards to this final rule especially in regards to the physician supervision requirements for outpatient...

I won’t be posting the bill tracking list this week as there have been no real substantive changes since last week. We are anxiously awaiting the HCPF figure setting, which is set to occur on Tuesday, March 16th. We’ll know then if the JBC is recommending the 10% cuts...

As a valued Consortium Member, your hospital or clinic can benefit from high value services such as IT group purchasing, EHR Assessment/Roadmapping, HIPAA Policies & Procedures & Risk Analysis, Incentive Funding Calculation assistance, IT Security Framework Certification and MUCH MORE! Detailed descriptions of each service and costs are now...

Rural hospitals and clinics are no strangers to the challenges of recruiting and retaining high quality clinical staff. A recent Health IT Pulse article argues that in spite of the cultural barriers, costs and resources involved in adopting technology, the benefits obtained in being able to recruit staff who...

Well, it sounds like this is it folks. Either we are about to witness federal healthcare reform move forward or we will not see anything happen……Or at least, that is what every policy wonk is saying from D.C. to California. Here’s the latest and greatest on what people are...