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The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting social-distancing requirements have forced a new reality on the health care system. One of the most significant and potentially long-lasting changes may be the rapid adoption of telemedicine as a method of care delivery.

"The state has really tried everything that it can to expand the ability for Coloradans to use telehealth," CHI's Jeff Bontrager told 9News.

A new interactive map from the Colorado Health Institute pinpoints census tracts where people are likely to have the hardest time staying isolated because of crowded housing, dense neighborhoods, or the nature of their work. 

CHI helped the prepare a policy agenda to improve the system for these children with special health care needs and their caregivers.

CHI built a first-of-its-kind Child Care Model to offer a new look at how Colorado’s youngest children are being cared for today — and how the system would have to change to meet parents’ preferred choices for care.

Colorado lawmakers will have to decide whether the state’s health-care costs are so high they warrant that kind of public interference, says Michele Lueck, president of the Colorado Health Institute, a nonpartisan research group.

CHI's Joe Hanel is quoted in a USA Today article that dives into how Colorado's legislature has changed health policy in recent years. Read more here.

"The figure comes from the every-other-year Colorado Health Access Survey, produced by the nonpartisan Colorado Health Institute and considered the gold standard for numbers on how people interact with the state’s health system."