Social Health Information Exchange Invitation to Negotiate -
ITN UHAA 2023000004
The Colorado Office of eHealth Innovation, in partnership with the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, is pleased to share that the application for the Social Health Information Exchange Invitation to Negotiate (SHIE ITN) is now open.
Applications are closed as of January 27, 2023; evaluations and negotiations are in progress.
All relevant procurement documents and information can be found on the State's procurement website.
Please direct all questions to our procurement official: erica.crofford@state.co.us
Important Dates
| Date | Milestone |
| December 13, 2022 | ITN Release |
| December 30, 2022 | Questions Due |
| Week of January 11, 2023 | Answers to Submitted Questions Posted |
| January 27, 2023 | Proposals Due |
| February - June 2023 | Evaluation and Negotiation |
| July 1, 2023 | Estimated Contract Execution |
What is Care Coordination?
Unmet social needs such as housing, food, transportation, and safety, significantly affect Coloradan's health, especially in communities of color and other historically marginalized communities. These unmet needs prevent folks from achieving their maximum health and well-being.
To address this gap, we are working on several projects that will coordinate care across physical, behavioral, and social health care providers to support whole person care. This will:
- Promote affordability
- Increase access
- Improve equity
Strengthening care coordination by quickly connecting people to the services they need will result in a healthier, more equitable Colorado for all.
Click below to learn more about the State's care coordination strategy.
Care Coordination Workgroup Meetings
This workgroup seeks to strengthen community connections to develop meaningful insights in support of equitable access to quality care and services for all Coloradans.
eHealth Commissioner Sponsor: Toni Baruti
Next meeting: February 13, 2022 11:00 AM Mountain Time
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83040429627
January Meeting Documents:
Past Meeting Documents:
Care Coordination-Related Initiatives at OeHI
A centralized method of gathering consent from clients for sharing sensitive health data.
Learn more here!
A centralized database of services and supports available in communities across the state.
A program to link a person’s health data from various sources to that individual.
Learn more here!
A platform to share physical, behavioral, and social health information between providers involved in whole-person care, composed of both a statewide unifying architecture and regional hubs
- OeHI and the eHealth Commission are committed to the development of a Social-Health Information Exchange (S-HIE) infrastructure. This is an interoperable and flexible infrastructure that supports coordinated whole person care across the physical, social, and behavioral health domains.
- S-HIE is a model that connects the social factors that influence health with a patient’s physical and behavioral health care. Through this model, regardless of where a patient seeks care, they can be referred directly to other providers or services in the community that match their needs. Regardless of where a patient seeks care, they should be able to access or be referred to services that meet their physical, behavioral, and social health needs!
- The S-HIE aims to reduce provider time spent on paperwork while also providing them with more whole person information about their patients. This will allow them to spend more time assessing a patient’s complex needs and referring them to applicable services and supports, paving the way for improvements in health equity. This also means that patients will experience improved quality of care, less time and money spent at the doctor’s office, and increased access to the services and support they need.
S-HIE Invitation to Negotiate
- The S-HIE Invitation to Negotiate has been posted and applications are closed as of January 27, 2023. Negotiations are in progress.
- All relevant procurement documents and information can be found on the State's procurement website.
- Please direct all questions to our procurement official: erica.crofford@state.co.us
A centralized database to ensure there is “no wrong door” in Colorado for patients seeking accurate provider data and providers seeking to update their own information.
Tools for Understanding Social-Health Information Exchange in Colorado
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S-HIE White Paper (Jan. 2021)
- Implementation Guidance For Screening for Social Determinants of Health in an Electronic Health Record (Jan. 2021)
Additional Resources
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National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Social Determinants of Health Resource Guide (September 2020)
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National 211 Steering Committee - The 2-1-1 Network and the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) (November 2020)
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The Gravity Project, A National Collaborative to Advance Interoperable Social Risk and Protective Factors Documentation
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SIREN – Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network - Screening Tool Comparison Table
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AMA In Full Health - Equitable Health Innovation Solution Development Toolkit (Accessed 2022)
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Healthy People 2030- Social Determinants of Health
Get Engaged
If you're interested in getting engaged, please reach out to our Ask OeHI email address at gov_ask_oehi@state.co.us.