In late summer or fall of 2015, the QHN platform will be upgraded to version 3.0. This release will be significant and address many of our Users requests for changes, upgrades and enhancements. We appreciate our Users persistence and feedback, and as with the previous QHN system which went through 10 years of iterations, this system will continue to evolve.  

A pilot program has been initiated to explore cross-continuum care-team management using QHN's newly acquired Advisory Board's care management tool, Crimson Care Management (CCM). This pilot engages primary care, long-term care, home health, the Department of Human Services (DHS) and RMHP to enable the team to identify and coordinate care for targeted patient populations and to focus on a patient-specific care plan.   

QHN is in the process of Image Enabling Results Delivery (IERD), which will allow images to be viewed via link type functionality directly from reports. The pilot of this program is with Aspen Valley Hospital. Once a successful pilot is completed, QHN will begin to expand this feature to other QHN participants. IERD allows the image to be viewed from the report with QHN Results, and also from many provider EHR systems depending upon their capability. 

If you are receiving radiology reports via results delivery at this time and are interested in this coming enhancement, please contact your Clinical Account Manager. Please see the EHR Connectivity Matrix section on the QHN website to confirm that your EHR vendor is working with QHN.

Colorado is one of eleven states awarded a Model Test Award in Round Two of State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative. Over the next 48 months, Colorado will receive up to $65 million to implement and test its State Health Care Innovation Plan.

The State Innovation Models Initiative Model Test Awards will provide financial and technical support over a four-year period for states to test and evaluate multi-payer health system transformation models. States must produce and implement a detailed and fully developed proposal capable of creating state-wide health transformation for the majority of care within the state.

Colorado's plan, entitled "The Colorado Framework," creates a system of clinic-based and public health supports to spur innovation. The state will improve the health of Coloradans by: (1) providing access to integrated primary care and behavioral health services in coordinated community systems; (2) applying value-based payment structures; (3) expanding information technology efforts, including telehealth; and (4) finalizing a statewide plan to improve population health. Funding will assist Colorado in integrating physical and behavioral health care in more than 400 primary care practices and community mental health centers comprised of approximately 1,600 primary care providers. In addition, the state will work to establish a partnership between their public health, behavioral health and primary care sectors.

Both HIE's in the state, QHN and CORHIO, played a central role the SIM grant development and will be an integral part of the practice transformation activity to support the State Health Care Innovation Plan. Learn more about the Round Two Awards and the SIM Initiative.