Digital Inclusion and Community Engagement | Office of eHealth Innovation

What is Digital Inclusion and Community Engagement?

Digital Inclusion and Community Engagement is an overarching effort to support safety net providers in providing telehealth services, implement innovative solutions; connect to the Colorado Health Information Exchange (HIE), Contexture; and improve Colorado’s ability to measure health parity. It includes the statewide Telehealth, Digital Inclusion, and Parity initiative as well as the Rural Connectivity initiative.

OeHI is implementing Digital Inclusion and Community Engagement by Improving parity of telehealth access for Coloradans through improved digital access, supporting community providers in offering telehealth services, supporting health care providers in aligning with changing demographic data requirements, and supporting more accurate health parity analysis to inform policy and initiatives. The main strategies for working toward these goals include research, funding to health care providers and community-based organizations, and partnerships with community organizations like libraries.

Digital Inclusion and Community Engagement-Related Initiatives at OeHI

Advancing Health Information Exchange and Rural Connectivity

As described in Colorado's Health IT Roadmap, the Office of eHealth Innovation (OeHI) with support from the Rural HIE Connectivity Workgroup seeks to harmonize and advance data sharing and health information exchange (HIE) capabilities across Colorado.

Learn more about HIE and Rural Connectivity!