CHIC is a collective of Colorado based safety net providers, rural hospitals and clinics, FQHCs, and community based health organizations that works to better address the health of underserved Coloradans through innovation.
The Colorado Health Innovation Community (CHIC) provides opportunities to learn, innovate, and share ideas across the ecosystem. CHIC members also have an opportunity to engage with CHIC’s Learning Cohort Program, a flagship curriculum program covering human centered design, equity training, community engagement, and pilot design and implementation. The program culminates with our safety net organization participants receiving microgrants to support them in identifying, piloting, and evaluating health care innovations with the intention of improving care experiences for low-income Coloradans.
Outside of the Learning Cohort Curriculum, the broader initiative of CHIC aims to create a supportive environment for organizations to take advantage of existing technologies and innovations that strengthen the health and health care of historically underinvested communities. At the same time, CHIC remains uniquely positioned to inform Colorado’s evolving policy landscape and create new opportunities to explore approaches to strengthen care delivery
See below for more details on our flagship Learning Cohort curriculum offerings
Colorado Health Innovation Community (CHIC)
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.
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.
To support peer learning and field-building, teams frequently share back their lessons learned from their pilots programs.
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.
