iHT2 Health IT Summit

HT2 Health IT Summit brings together C-level, physician practice management and IT decision-makers from North America's leading provider organizations and physician practices. For two full days, 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.

Dates/Times:July 24, 2012 8:00 AM - July 25, 2012 2:15 PM

Location:Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, CO
Click here for more information and to register.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Community Benefit Program

Through a generous grant from Kaiser Permanente, ClinicNET is pleased to offer the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Community Benefit Program. This program, offers contributing affiliate clinic leaders conference registration scholarships and travel support funding to participate in IHI courses.

IHI is an independent nonprofit organization that works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action. IHI offers conferences and courses throughout the year.  For a list of IHI offerings available for support funding click here.

Click here for the more information about this scholarship opportunity.

COHBE Summer Outreach Road Trip Schedule

Staff from the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange will be traveling across Colorado this summer to expand their outreach efforts, meet with stakeholder groups, obtain input about their planning work and learn about effective health care initiatives. The current schedule and contact information is available here.  They will add dates and locations and update the schedule. They invite requests for meetings and presentations, including on dates that are not currently listed.

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.

PEAK Outreach Project Funding Opportunity!

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, through funding from the HRSA SHAP grant, has developed the Program Eligibility Application Kit (PEAK) Outreach Project with the purpose of increasing the accessibility to the PEAK Website for Coloradans.  Click here fore more details and to access an application.

Webinar: 2012 Legislative Session in Review: Innovations in Health Care

What are some opportunities for health care cost containment, and how does care coordination fit in? What were the key themes of the 2012 session of the Colorado General Assembly, and what's in store for 2013? How will an aging population affect Colorado’s state budget and health care workforce?

The answers to these questions—and more!—are available through a new webinar series available to Colorado health care leaders. As a part of their tenth anniversary celebration, Colorado Health Institute will be offering 10 free webinars throughout 2012. The webinars are designed to review and discuss timely health policy information. Each webinar will be held from noon-1:00pm.

Upcoming webinar: June 6: 2012 Legislative Session in Review: Innovations in Health Care - Michele Lueck, President/CEO (Register)

Updates from HCPF

Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing's: At a Glance (May 2012) is now available.