As part of a generous grant from the COPIC Foundation, CIVHC is working to help providers in Colorado be properly reimbursed for helping their patients with Advance Care Planning (ACP). A webinar developed by Pinnacle Health is now available on civhc.org and is designed to educate providers how to document Read more…
On February 22nd I had the great honor of hosting a day-long CIVHC Connect centered on serious illness. CIVHC has long worked in the palliative care, advance care planning, and care transitions spaces and this was a wonderful opportunity to bring our partners in these initiatives together to learn and Read more…
End of life is a scary, vulnerable time for both patients and families. Not only are they confronting the reality of death but they are also trying to navigate unfamiliar portions of the health care system. Palliative and hospice care have different goals than other specialties, as they are less Read more…
As VP of Business Development, one of the most rewarding parts of my job is helping Change Agents access data from the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD). Each innovative project is spearheaded by individuals working to improve health care in Colorado and across the country. Access to timely Read more…
CIVHC is excited to announce that, via partnership with the Colorado Advance Directive Consortium (CADC), we are the new home for the Medical Order Scope of Treatment (MOST) form. A resource for the seriously ill, the MOST form summarizes and consolidates important information about a patient’s preferences for life-sustaining treatments Read more…
CIVHC’s partnerships are essential for addressing palliative care, serious and advanced illness, advance care planning and care transitions. Optimizing alignment of multi-stakeholder efforts designed to improve care for patients, families and caregivers is a shared objective here in Colorado where collaborations within and among communities are longstanding. Now a significant Read more…
For the past several years, interns from Colorado schools have helped CIVHC with some of our largest projects. During the summer of 2018, two students from the LEADS Program at the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine in Aurora have been working to develop methodology for a Total Cost of Read more…
During the annual meeting in June, CIVHC’s Board of Directors elected Mark Wallace, MD, MPH, as the incoming Board Chair. Dr. Wallace is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer for the North Colorado Health Alliance, and serves as Executive Director of Weld County Department of Public Health & Environment. Read more…
In May we re-launched the CIVHC Connect Meeting series in order to create more opportunities for connection among our stakeholders. Change Agents had two ways to attend – in person on May 16 and via webinar on May 21. This first Connect session focused on publicly available Colorado All Payer Read more…
Analysis of claims data is still in its early days. Frequently, it is necessary to develop brand-new methodologies in order to access actionable information. Additionally, new uses for claims data are continually being imagined, requiring analysts in the field to be agile and innovative. Below are summaries of some of Read more…