Mark your calendars! Disaster Recovery and EHR Systems-A special Workshop you should not miss!!!

When: Tuesday April 2, 2013 from 10:30 am - 3 pm
Where: Colorado Rural Health Center, 3033 S. Parker Road, Suite 606, Aurora, CO 80014

Get the most out of your travel to Denver and consider arriving a day early for this special workshop on Disaster Recovery and EHR Systems!  The Colorado Rural Health Center and Data Services for Healthcare will:

•     present the latest innovations and concepts in developing and deploying an affordable and appropriate disaster recovery plan for your facility;
•     review disaster recovery and contingency plan policies and procedures.  Every participant will leave with an up to date HIPAA DR and Contingency plan policy and procedure template you can quickly adopt at your facility;
•     take a virtual tour of a Data Center that would provide the highest level of data security;
•     facilitate several roundtable discussions with industry experts on solutions for each participant's DR planning issues and concerns;
•     provide an update on what IT staff should do relevant to the recent HIPAA Omnibus Rule;
•     present on an innovative solution to internal audit of your EHR, PACS and other systems that create, maintain or store PHI;
•     present on Mobile Device Security trends and new solutions

Who should attend:

•     Critical Access Hospital IT leadership and staff
•     Rural PPS hospital IT leadership and staff
•     ClinicNet safety net clinics who have IT staff
•     Federally Qualified Health Centers

Fee: There is a nominal $25 fee to cover lunch and refreshments. Recognizing the burden attending may pose to our rural facilities DASH is offering a limited number of $200 scholarships to defray travel costs. These will be issued on a first come/first serve basis.  Details on signing up for these scholarship will be included on registration forms.

For more information email David Ginsberg, Senior Advisor at the Colorado Rural Health Center.  Registration coming soon! [Source: The Colorado Rural Health Center]

Registration is now open for Tomando Control Colorado (Tomando Control de su Salud)

"Have you been patiently waiting for the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program for the Spanish speaking community?  Your patience is being rewarded! Registration is now open for Tomando Control Colorado (Tomando Control de su Salud)! Join us in Lakewood, Colorado March 26- 29th.

Now is also a perfect time to register for COAW's Summer Academy for Older Adult Wellness. Registration is open, so enroll now to join us in Denver May 30 - June 4, 2013.Visit COAW's website to read all about Introduction to Falls Prevention Programming, as well as Instructor and Leader Trainings in Tai Chi, N'Balance, Matter of Balance, Stepping On and Healthier Living Colorado (CDSMP).  You have waited long enough! Click here to enroll now: COAW.org

COAW is now an authorized IACET Provider, offering CEUs for programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standard.  If you have any questions please contact me, or Pam Allen, Education and Communications Manager, 303-984-1845, 888-900-2629, or Pam@COAW.org." [Source: Consortium for Older Adult Wellness]

Free Online Diabetes Self-Management Workshops

"Nearly half of all adults live with one or more chronic health conditions, such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, stroke, and osteoporosis but millions struggle to find ways to manage their condition. Our Better Choices, Better Health® program helps. Better Choices, Better Health® (BCBH) is the online version of the internationally recognized Chronic Disease Self Management Program, developed and tested at the Stanford University Patient Education Center..."  Click here to view the flyer and learn how to participate.  Participation is free through March 31, 2013.  [Source: National Council on Aging]

[Webcast] Driving Patient Demand for Shared Decisions, Better Value, and Care Improvement

"On February 25-26, the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care will host a workshop that will focus on:

• building insights and recognition on the necessity of increased patient, family, and citizen engagement in achieving better outcomes and lower costs in health care;
• exploring what has been learned about effective approaches for building patient demand and involvement in improving evidence, care, and value-including principles and barriers;
• considering strategies and policies for activities to be undertaken at multiple levels to advance patients, in partnership with providers, as leaders and drivers of care delivery improvement through the protected use of clinical data, informed, shared decisions, and value improvement; and
• identifying important research opportunities for developing the additional insights needed to accelerate progress."

Click here to register and.  More information about this workshop is available online as well.  [Source:  Institute of Medicine]

New Diabetes Education Available!

"Are you worried that you or a loved one has diabetes?  The Health Care Advocacy Program is offering free health education to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities!

Tuesday, February 5th & Tuesday, February 12th
1:30pm to 3:00pm
1905 Sherman St. Suite 300 Denver, CO 80203

We encourage family, friends and professionals to join in as well!"

For more information please contact:
Alex Andrews; 303.974.2520 (office)

Click here to view the original flyer.  [Source: Health Care Advocacy Program]

Reminder: ICD 10 Online Workshops

Take advantage of this opportunity to enroll in the following online courses offered through the Colorado Rural Health Center that will prepare you and your organization for the successful transition to ICD 10.  These courses will provide you with history, structure, functions, guidelines and the terminology needed to ensure accurate and efficient billing processes. Whether you are a new coder, an advanced coder with years of experience, or a health care provider -- you will find value in this timely information.

Click here for more information, to view workshop offerings and to register.  Special ClinicNET member rates available!

Data Makes a Difference: Practical Tips for Using Data to Address Health Disparities

When: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Mountain Time)
Where: The Colorado Trust, 1600 Sherman Street, Denver, Colorado 80203-1604 

"The purpose of this workshop is to help participants find, understand, interpret, and use data to support their work to eliminate health disparities. The intended audience for this workshop includes members, staff, or volunteers of the community-based organizations who have had no or little exposure to data and are seeking to develop basic knowledge about data related to health disparities. Using a common scenario, a trainer will guide participants through steps needed in a process to use data to address a specific health disparity. Throughout the workshop, the trainer will pose questions to guide participants’ critical thinking about data. Participants will also learn strategies to ensure the entire process of data access, interpretation, and use serves to strengthen participants' efforts to bring their own community together to address health disparities."  Click here to learn more and to register. [Source: National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities]

ICD-10 Trainings available to all safety net providers

A number of ICD-10 training opportunities are available.  Special rates are available for ClinicNET affiliates!  While these trainings focus on rural health care providers the information shared is valuable to all providers in the safety net community.  ICD-10 training opportunities include:

Online Classes: Take advantage of this opportunity to enroll in the following online courses that will prepare you and your organization for the successful transition to ICD 10.  These courses will provide you with history, structure, functions, guidelines and the terminology needed to ensure accurate and efficient billing processes. Whether you are a new coder, an advanced coder with years of experience, or a health care provider -- you will find value in this timely information. Click here for more information.

Workshops: “Turning ICD-9 into ICD-10”:  Presenters Todd Welter, MS CPC and Susan Whitney, CPC, CPC-L will take the top diagnosis codes used in a rural health practice/setting and help you, and ultimately your providers, understand what changes will need to be made in the provider’s documentation to maintain timely and accurate claims submission and claims payments.  Workshops will be hosted:

•    September 18th - Holyoke, CO
•    September 20th - Del Norte, CO
•    September 25th - Grand Junction, CO
•    September 28th - Webinar

To register please click on one of the four locations above. If you have any questions please contact Courtnay Ryan.

Colorado Medicaid Workshops

ACS is offering Web-EX presentations of basic billing for the CO1500 and the UB04 providers.  These Web-EX workshops are set up specifically for the providers servicing Medicaid clients outside the Front Range geographical area. In a time when practices need to run “lean and mean”, it may be good to know there is no enrollment fee for providers to dial into these sessions.

For more information on these Web-EX trainings please click here.

Medical Home Workshop

Enroll in CAFP's PCMH Workshop Thursday, April 19th from 8:00 - 5:00 at Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs. This workshop is approved for 8 CME.