They provided a definition of the word “contexture” to explain why they chose the name: “The manner of being woven or linked together to form a connected whole.”
Contexture will provide health information services to approximately 1,800 health care organizations across Colorado and Arizona. It will have an Innovation Department to adapt to stakeholder needs and ensure state agencies like Medicaid are adequately served, as well as a Customer Experience Department that will maintain high standards of service.
Health Current CEO Melissa Kotrys is Contexture’s CEO and CORHIO CEO Morgan Honea is its executive vice president. It is governed by a 19-member Board of Directors led by Lisa Brown, the vice president of strategy and growth at STRIDE Community Health Center. The board members represent large health systems, behavioral health providers, labs, state government agencies, and safety net providers from throughout Colorado and Arizona.
New HIE consortium to develop data-sharing solutions, initiatives amid pandemic
Six health information exchange organizations have come together to establish a new consortium. The group aims to share technology infrastructure, create new solutions and advocate for federal support to drive data sharing amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The push toward interoperability is not new. But amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for secure and efficient data sharing has become more urgent than ever.
To help facilitate greater interoperability during the once-in-a-century public health crisis, six health information exchanges have created a consortium.
Dubbed the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability, the group has three main goals, said Morgan Honea, CEO of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), one of the consortium’s founding members. These are knowledge and technology infrastructure sharing, joint service offerings for the government and marke