Colorado Health Innovation Community

OVERVIEW

We are supporting an innovation community to better address the health of underserved Coloradans.

The Colorado Health Innovation Community (CHIC) is helping health care safety net organizations identify, test, and evaluate innovations with the potential to improve care experiences for low-income Coloradans. We are creating opportunities for Colorado’s broader safety net ecosystem to learn about human-centered, sustainable solutions for patients and staff alike. And this initiative aims to create a supportive environment for organizations to take advantage of existing technologies that strengthen the health and health care of historically underinvested communities.

The work of this initiative is uniquely positioned to inform Colorado’s evolving policy landscape and create new opportunities to explore approaches to strengthen care delivery.

We’re offering in-depth training, coaching, and mentoring on human-centered design skills. Teams are learning how to effectively define problems and design, test, evaluate, and implement innovative solutions. These skills are essential for organizations interested in creating a culture of innovation and developing leaders for change.

To support peer learning and field-building, teams frequently share back their lessons learned from their pilots programs.

We’re helping improve each organization’s capacity for adopting technology relevant to serving Colorado’s Medicaid and uninsured populations. That means identifying, prototyping, testing, and refining technology-enabled solutions to improve access to high-quality comprehensive primary care, behavioral health, oral health, or strengthen community health in the safety net. We expose teams to technology entrepreneurs and vendors, as well as their peers who have effectively implemented similar solutions.

We host events that allow teams to plug into the broader Colorado innovation, safety net, and health care ecosystem with a broad array of stakeholders, including government, funders, health systems, payers, entrepreneurs and others in Colorado.