Advancing Health Information Exchange to Better Serve Coloradans with Carrie Paykoç

InOn Health Podcast

In this episode of the InOn Health podcast, Carrie Paykoç, director of the Office of eHealth Innovation in Colorado, joins KP to discuss the intersection of public policy and technology and how it works to support all Coloradans for their health and wellbeing.

Before joining Colorado’s Office of eHealth Innovation, Carrie previously held various positions in non-profit organizations, healthcare startups, and tech companies. The Office of eHealth Innovation launched in 2015 through executive order to establish strategy, policy, coordinate funding across Colorado. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the office primarily focused on implementing projects and initiatives to fulfill Colorado’s health priorities. The Office of eHealth Innovation developed the state strategy in 2017, creating a roadmap for initiatives and developing methods to measure progress. Carrie outlines two primary initiatives:

1) Advancing health information exchange and data sharing

2) Aligning and advancing care coordination to support communities and infrastructure for delivering information effectively

These initiatives enabled more agility and flexibility regarding prompt responses during a public health crisis. Carrie outlines the purpose of health information exchange, which focuses on stewarding information to various healthcare providers to ensure understanding of the patient to ensure necessary service and support. She addresses current challenges to instill the best delivery methods, which involves catching up to current technology standards based on current rules, regulations, and interpretations of when and how information is shared (policy constraints).

Carrie provides an overview of social health information exchange—regardless of record or application, information can be exchanged freely. This concept addresses someone’s needs like housing and food while assessing adequate and available resources. Carrie discusses how health equity can evolve to serve everyone—assess policy, laws, and rules—and examine the barriers in place. If so, create the necessary change to prevent poor outcomes and situations. An opportunity to advance health equity involves enabling access to healthcare affordably and effectively through sharing information and appropriate services and treatments when/where needed.

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