CBHC » Rocky Mountain HealthNet http://www.cbhc.org The Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:11:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Sebelius, Solis Announce Nearly $1 Billion Recovery Act Investment in Advancing Use of Health IT, Training Workers for Health Jobs of the Future http://www.cbhc.org/2010/02/24/sebelius-solis-announce-nearly-1-billion-recovery-act-investment-in-advancing-use-of-health-it-training-workers-for-health-jobs-of-the-future/ http://www.cbhc.org/2010/02/24/sebelius-solis-announce-nearly-1-billion-recovery-act-investment-in-advancing-use-of-health-it-training-workers-for-health-jobs-of-the-future/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:53:42 +0000 admin http://www.cbhc.org/?p=439 This Press Release from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announces the recipients of grant awards to help make health IT available to over 100,000 health providers by 2014.  Colorado received more than $9 million grant dollars to support IT and Health Information Exchange through Colorado Regional Health Information Exchange (CORHIO). 

Click here to read more about the funds awarded to through the National Recovery Act. 

]]> http://www.cbhc.org/2010/02/24/sebelius-solis-announce-nearly-1-billion-recovery-act-investment-in-advancing-use-of-health-it-training-workers-for-health-jobs-of-the-future/feed/ 0 New High-Speed Internet Health Information Network to Connect State’s Urban, Rural Health Care Providers http://www.cbhc.org/2009/08/19/new-high-speed-internet-health-information-network-to-connect-state%e2%80%99s-urban-rural-health-care-providers/ http://www.cbhc.org/2009/08/19/new-high-speed-internet-health-information-network-to-connect-state%e2%80%99s-urban-rural-health-care-providers/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:02:34 +0000 admin http://cbhc.org/2009/08/19/new-high-speed-internet-health-information-network-to-connect-state%e2%80%99s-urban-rural-health-care-providers/ This article from the Cloud Computing Journal online describes the collaborative effort between CBHC, the Colorado Hospital Association and Qwest to connect healthcare providers state-wide on Qwest’s national fiber-optic network.  The project being designed to improve communication and healthcare delivery throughout Colorado, particularly in rural communities.   

Click here  to read the entire article. 

]]> http://www.cbhc.org/2009/08/19/new-high-speed-internet-health-information-network-to-connect-state%e2%80%99s-urban-rural-health-care-providers/feed/ 0 Colorado Telehealth Network picks Qwest http://www.cbhc.org/2009/08/19/colorado-telehealth-network-picks-qwest/ http://www.cbhc.org/2009/08/19/colorado-telehealth-network-picks-qwest/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:54:10 +0000 admin http://cbhc.org/2009/08/19/colorado-telehealth-network-picks-qwest/ The Colorado Telehealth Network – a collaborative communication networking project between the Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council and the Colorado Hospital Association – has selected Qwest to manage the proposed high-speed ethernet network that will connect healthcare providers state-wide.  This network will mean a great improvement to the communication and technical capacities of rural communities across the state, and is designed to facilitate better healthcare delivery through applications like telemedicine and health information exchange. 

Click here to read an article about the Colorado Telehealth Network in the Denver Business Journal.

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