QHN Celebrates 20 Years of Connecting and Innovating

Quality Health Network (QHN), the region’s health information exchange (HIE),is celebrating 20 years of connecting care providers and innovating in western Colorado in 2024. QHN has worked for two decades to connect medical, behavioral, and social organizations to securely provide crucial health data that ensures people get the care and services they need quickly and […]

Introducing Collaborise, a new convener service of QHN!

We are excited to announce the launch of our latest QHN service!  Introducing Collaborise, our convener service that helps organizations navigate complex issues that result in positive change in our communities. Convening for Positive Change Quality Health Network has launched Collaborise, a convener service helping communities and organizations understand and navigate complicated issues, processes, and […]

Contexture and QHN Explore Affiliation and Unified Health Information Exchange

Contexture and QHN are excited to announce that the two organizations have entered into a Letter of Intent to explore an affiliation to unify health information exchange in Colorado.  This affiliation would result in the integration of staff, technology, and operations and enable both organizations to bring our extensive expertise serving our respective communities to […]

Save the Date! The 2024 Healthier Together Summit is in the Works!

Mark your calendars for the 2024 Spring Summit!  We are looking forward to connecting to discuss the latest innovations in healthcare and heath IT, SDoH topics, state health initiatives, and important local program highlights.  We will return to beautiful Colorado Mesa University in the Meyer Ballroom for a full day of networking and resource fair.  […]

Why Screeners?

Screeners and assessments are crucial in medical, social, and behavioral settings. They can help you: Identify needs They can provide a structured way to gather information about your client’s conditions, symptoms, or challenges, enabling you to understand their unique requirements. Apply early interventions They can help detect potential problems at an early stage, allowing you […]

2023 QHN Survey Winner!

Congratulations to our 2023 Survey Winner, Susan Short of MindSprings! We “spun the wheel” with nearly 300 QHN and CRN survey participants and the needle landed on Susan. Enjoy your new iPad, Susan! We made a little video –> Thanks to all <300 participants for your valuable feedback. We will use the data to serve […]

Top Tips for Safeguarding Patient Data – It’s a Big Deal

QHN’s Privacy/Compliance Officer, Janet Terry, recently joined us to discuss best practices to keep health data safe and secure. Janet has worked at QHN since 2010 and has been the Privacy/Compliance Officer at QHN for the past 10 years. Q: A host of recent news stories from around the country about security breaches brings up […]

Patient/Client Privacy: Accessing help with our unique consent model

Patient/Client Privacy: Accessing help with our unique consent model You may have heard leaders in the SDoH space using the phrase “blanket consent” to warn the medical, behavioral, and social industries about what could happen if strict consent policies are not in place in many of the new social/community information exchange platforms popping up across […]

Recognized by the ONC!

Quality Health Network’s Community Resource Network (CRN) was recently highlighted in the ONC’s SDoH Toolkit. As a nationally-recognized trailblazer in the SDoH information exchange space, our CRN platform was called-out as a crucial resource for other health organizations interested in developing similar initiatives in their communities.  The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information […]

CRN Year in Review

Last year was full of wins for CRN. Let’s briefly look back at 2022 so we can move forward with new-found momentum into 2023! To start, CRN saw some of the highest utilization rates since we started this journey during the Covid pandemic in July 2020. Just in 2022 alone, we saw a whopping 10,800 […]