Serving as western CO’s health information exchange for more than 15 years meant that we were able to witness firsthand the personal stories from local organizations and their incredible community caregivers.
Their experiences encouraged us to find a way to use our information exchange expertise to find a solution. Two years and hundreds of community meetings and feedback later, we released the first version of the Community Resource Network (CRN).
Our Mesa County community asked for an information exchange platform that could do several things. In Sarah’s Case:
Show a big picture, whole-person view of Sarah’s health.
What are her immediate medical, social, and behavioral needs?
How do those needs intersect?
Show Sarah’s care history—
What care and services did she receive and plan to receive?
How can we follow-up?
Include a comprehensive local resource directory
to make fast, closed-loop, electronic referrals.
Let’s finally retire the fax machine and start tracking referrals for Sarah electronically across the community
Enable simple communication between caregivers.
One place to send emails, texts, or simple alerts to the team to make sure we all know where Sarah is at on her journey.
