Connect for Health Colorado Updates

• "Our Customer Service Center phone number is now available to answer general questions, 1-855-PLANS-4-YOU  (1-855-752-6749) 
• We have posted a Request for Proposal for security assessment services on our website
• Check out our events calendar to see where we will be conducting outreach 
• Join us for a merged Individual and SHOP Advisory Group meeting June 27, from 10 am - Noon. More information will be posted on our website early next week.
• The Board will meet July 8, at 8:30 am. Learn More.”  [Source:  Connect for Health Colorado]

Patient- and Family-Centered Care Organizational Self-Assessment Tool

"This self-assessment tool from Institute for Healthcare Improvement (in collaboration with the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality and the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care) allows organizations to understand the range and breadth of elements of patient- and family-centered care and to assess where they are against the leading edge of practice. Use this self-assessment tool to assess how your organization is performing in relation to specific components of patient- and family-centered care, or as a basis for conversations about patient-centeredness in the organization." [Source: CCI Voice] 

iHT2 2013 Health IT Summit - Denver

"July 24, 2013 8:30 AM - July 25, 2013 3:00 PM

Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center

7800 E. Tufts Ave.
Denver, CO , 80237

Each year, the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) hosts a Denver-based conference which promotes improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care through information technology and facilitating knowledge exchange. For two full days, healthcare and technology executives interact with a national audience of peers, national leaders and solution providers featuring the latest solutions for practice management, mobility, telemedicine, outsourcing, IT infrastructure, next-generation electronic medical records, disease management, and more." [Source: CORHIO]

Premier Cares Award

The Premier Cares Award was established to recognize exemplary programs nationwide that have made health services more accessible to a specific medically underserved population, particularly as demonstrated in superior health outcomes. The award spotlights innovative programs that support people excluded from or underserved by the mainstream health delivery system, including farm workers, homeless children, pregnant teens, low-income mothers and infants, and individuals who don't have the strength or means to reach a clinic or hospital. The winning program must be able to show measurable benefits/outcomes covering a full two-year span and must be capable of being replicated. The award winner receives $100,000 and the other five finalists receive $24,000 each. The entry deadline is July 31, 2013. Visit the Premier website to review the award criteria and download the entry form.

[Survey] Patient Navigation, Community Health Worker and Care Coordination in CO Communities

"The Colorado Patient Navigator and Community Health Worker Collaborative hopes to learn more about the resources available to clients and activities underway in the area of patient navigation, community health work and care coordination. We hope the results of this survey will help to better coordinate services within communities through an understanding of what is needed to support this work and the current status of community health work, patient navigation and care coordination in Colorado to advance the field.

As a partner in this effort, the Colorado School of Public Health is helping conduct this survey (COMIRB #13-1524).

Link: https://redcap.ucdenver.edu/surveys/?s=LZJV4g..." This survey will be open until the end of July.

"This survey is intended to capture information about the persons involved in the following role(s):
Section I: Persons actually delivering the service/care to clients
Section II: Persons directing or managing programs
Section III: Persons involved in training
Section IV: Persons conducting research
Section V: Persons involved in policy work/advocacy
Section VI: Persons who are not currently involved but have an interest

Please provide input about ALL areas applicable to your work or services. On average, the survey will take 15 minutes to complete. If you chose to share your contact information and allow your information to be released, you will receive the results of the survey. If you do not wish your contact information to be shared, the data will NOT be provided to outside agencies.  We encourage you to forward this survey along to your networks and colleagues.  Within the survey, there is an opportunity to provide information about networks and individuals you plan to forward/share information; or you can reply to this e-mail or andrea.dwyer@ucdenver.edu if you have any questions or ideas about survey dissemination.  The results and a survey summary will be shared at the Public Health in the Rockies Conference in Breckenridge in September.  There will be a special focus on patient navigation and community health work on September 19th and 20th.  To register for the conference, please visit:  http://www.coloradopublichealth.org/conference/."

The Tobacco Education, Prevention, and Cessation Grants Program

"The Tobacco Education, Prevention, and Cessation Grants Program is pleased to release a Request for Applications (RFA). The purpose of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to strengthen and grow the Tobacco Education, Prevention and Cessation Grants Program funding portfolioto achieve our strategic plan goals, reduce the health disparities of tobacco use and access, and increase health equity for priority populations across Colorado.

The Tobacco Review Committee expects to recommend grants totaling approximately  $3 million for the period beginning approximately Jan. 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014.  The number and amount of grant awards will vary depending on the number of awarded applications, proposed activities and recommendations made during the review process. 

Go to http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-PSD/CBON/1251617593490 and click on the "Apply for Funding" tab to reveal a drop down menu of necessary documents. Please send questions about this RFA by email to: COTobaccoGrantProgram@gmail.com." [Source: CDPHE]

Free EHR & Meaningful Use Boot Camp

June 27, 2013 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM

DoubleTree Westminster
8773 Yates Dr
Westminster, CO , 80031

"Interested in learning how you can optimize the use of your  EHR? Do you need help meeting Meaningful Use objectives? Attend the free EHR & Meaningful Use Boot Camp and learn how to incorporate Meaningful Use objectives into your practice to increase efficiency, improve patient outcomes and make the most of the expense and time you put into your EHR adoption." [Source: CORHIO]