Friday, May 10, 2013

[Webinar] The Health Care Law 101 (in English and Spanish)

"A presentation on the main provisions in the Affordable Care Act, the health care law, and how to access care in your community in Spanish. Information on the Health Insurance Marketplace and how to get updates on implementation of the law will be shared."  [Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]
  • May 21 at 3:00 pm ET  (in Spanish)  Click here to register.
  • May 23 at 2:00 pm ET (in English)  Click here to register.

Asthma Awareness Month Resources

"When you can't breathe, nothing else matters. While asthma sufferers cannot take breathing for granted, well-trained clinicians can do a lot to help them breathe easier. [Association of Clinicians for the Underserved]'s resources are intended to help clinicians mitigate the disproportionate effect of asthma on the underserved...In one location, you can find resources including clinical guidelines, patient education and self-management materials, policy briefs, asthma reports, clinical toolkits, mobile technology and asthma information, and smoking cessation and tobacco materials."  [Source: Association of Clinicians for the Underserved]

Thursday, May 9, 2013

[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/."

iHT2 2013 Health IT Summit - Denver

When: July 24, 2013 8:30 AM - July 25, 2013 3:00 PM
Location: 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...The full conference agenda is available online at http://ihealthtran.com/denveragenda2013.html...
Attendees will have the opportunity to earn continuing education certificates at this event...Click here to learn more and to register.  [Source: CORHIO]

[Webinar] HIPAA Omnibus Follow-Up -- Deeper Dive

"Please join us for THE Consortium webinar ("HIPAA Omnibus Follow-Up -- Deeper Dive") on Thursday, May 16, 2013 from 12:00pm - 1:15pm where we will discuss the HIPAA Omnibus Rule in greater depth than at our recent presentations. The deeper dive will focus on:
  •     Handling patient requests for restrictions on disclosures to health plans
  •     Providing immunization records to schools
  •     New Breach notification procedures
  •     What you should be doing NOW to be ready for the September 23rd deadline for compliance"
Click here to register.  [Source: Colorado Rural Health Center]

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

[Webinar] Make the Call, Don't Miss a Beat!

When: May 16 at 12:00 pm Noon ET

"You are invited to a webinar titled Make the Call, Don't Miss a Beat! a webinar seeking to educate and empower women age 50+ and to encourage women to call 9-1-1 immediately when they experience any of the seven symptoms of a heart attack, and to do the same for their mothers, sisters, and friends. The HHS Office on Women's Health's new campaign builds on OWH's successful "Make the Call, Don't Miss a Beat" campaign, that began in 2011. This webinar will be offered in English at Noon and in Spanish at 1:00 pm ET."  Click here to register.

"Haga La Llamada¡ No Pierda Tiempo!
16 de Mayo a la 1:00 pm ET
Usted está invitado/a a participar a un Webinar en español sobre la campaña de concientización sobre ataques al corazón dirigida a mujeres latinas de 50 años en adelante. La campaña, "Haga la Llamada. ¡No Pierda Tiempo!" tiene como objetivo educar y motivar a las mujeres de habla hispana a llamar al 9-1-1 inmediatamente cuando se presente alguno de los siete síntomas de un ataque al corazón y a hacer lo mismo por sus madres, hermanas y amigas. Es una campaña lanzada por La Oficina de la Salud de la Mujer del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos y el webinar es en colaboración con la HHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships."  Click here to register.  [Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]

Updates from HCPF

Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing's CICP May Newsletter is now available.