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2/11/2019 - Forbes

The back-office revolution

UCHealth in Colorado is one of a growing number of healthcare systems using predictive analytics to improve its operations.  Read Article

2/11/2019 - KOAA News5

Your Healthy Family: New minimally invasive breast tumor treatment available in CO (part 1)

UCHealth Memorial Hospital’s Breast Surgery Program is now the first in Colorado to use a new technology that can freeze a lesion in the breast, killing the tumor cells and helping patients who are candidates for the procedure avoid surgery. Read Article

2/11/2019 - Becker's Hospital Review

100 hospital and health system CIOs to know | 2019

The executives featured on this list - including Steve Hess. CIO of UCHealth - lead technology and health IT initiatives for large and small healthcare providers across the U.S.  Read Article

2/7/2019 - CIO

Consumer price transparency: The healthcare CIO’s looming headache

Posting chargemasters online is just the first step; hospitals should also offer cost estimators based on patients’ insurance plans. Here’s what CIOs need to know as hospitals move into the era of healthcare price transparency. Read Article

2/4/2019 - Health Analytics

Collaboration, clinical input drive analytics innovation at UCHealth

Input from clinicians and a proactive view of disruption are bringing analytics innovation to Colorado's UCHealth. Read Article

1/11/2019 - Berthold Weekly Surveyor

Hospitals offer innovative digital footprint system for newborns

UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital and UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies are the first two hospitals in the state to use a new technology to electronically scan and create electronic identification records of babies’ feet. Read Article

1/10/2019 - HealthLeaders

Verma commends 3 health systems for their price transparency

Three health systems that have voluntarily taken steps to promote price transparency for their patients, including UCHealth, received kudos Thursday from the head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Read Article

1/10/2019 - healthpayerintelligence.com

Verma: Chargemaster rule is ‘first step’ to price transparency

Three health systems that have voluntarily taken steps to promote price transparency for their patients, including UCHealth, received kudos Thursday from the head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Read Article

1/8/2019 - Steamboat Pilot & Today

New price transparency requirements take effect for hospitals

“We want patients to have useful and accurate information that can help them make health care decisions,” said Dan Weaver, senior director of public relations and communications with UCHealth, in response to the new federal requirements. Read Article

1/7/2019 - Fox31 News Denver

Medical procedure costs now available to public

The federal government now requires that all hospitals post their prices online, in the name of transparency. UCHealth Dan Weaver recommends patients use the UCHealth online price estimate tool that is individualized and factors in your insurance plan. Read Article