Lt. Governor Primavera and Colorado Office of eHealth Innovation Announce Three Winning Projects in Inaugural eHealth Solutions Challenge with Colorado Smart Cities Alliance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Denver, CO [June 17, 2026] –
Today, Lieutenant Governor Dianne Primavera, the Colorado Office of eHealth Innovation (OeHI), and the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance (CSCA) announced three winning projects in the inaugural eHealth Solutions Challenge (eHSC), a statewide initiative designed to identify, vet, and pilot emerging technology solutions that improve health-related data sharing across systems and sectors.
Inspired by the Colorado Health IT Roadmap, the winning projects address a critical hurdle in Colorado’s healthcare system by ensuring that different doctors, hospitals, and agencies can safely talk to one another so patients don’t have to act as their own manual messengers or repeat their medical history at every appointment. Each project received up to $50,000 in seed funding, and will demonstrate real-world health IT solutions that address healthcare transportation coordination, referral tracking, and AI-powered revenue cycle management in communities across Colorado.
“In Colorado, we don’t just build for the sake of technology; we build to make healthcare more connected, affordable, and human. Improving health care access, quality, and affordability, combined with health care innovation, has been a top priority of our administration, and we are excited to see these projects come to life,” said Lt. Governor Primavera
Interested parties are invited to cover the eHealth Solutions Winners Showcase Event on Wednesday, June 17 from 3 – 5 pm at the Denver Center for Performing Arts. Please register in advance if you are planning to attend as capacity is limited! If you are a member of the media planning to attend, please email bianca.melancon@state.co.us.
WINNING PROJECTS
trellyz & North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization (NFRMPO Ride NoCo)
Challenge Area: Transportation Coordination for Healthcare Access, Human Service, and Essential Needs
Funding Amount: $47,000
North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization (NFRMPO) and trellyz are launching an innovative pilot to make transportation access easier to coordinate across Northern Colorado. The pilot builds on Ride NoCo, NFRMPO’s one-call/one-click transportation information hub, by adding a shared digital coordination layer that helps community partners work together more smoothly, allowing residents to get to essential services with fewer delays and less stress.
For many people, especially older adults, people with disabilities, rural residents, and those managing limited resources, transportation is not a simple trip. It can be the barrier that determines whether someone keeps a medical appointment, follows a treatment plan, or gets timely preventive care. When transportation falls through, the consequences can ripple quickly: missed appointments, delayed prescriptions, and worsening health outcomes.
This pilot with trellyz and NFRMPO is designed to address a common reality behind the scenes: transportation coordination often depends on fragmented phone calls, emails, and manual follow-up between healthcare providers, community organizations, Ride NoCo staff, and transportation providers.
cliexa & Weisbrod Health
Challenge Area: Upstream Denial Prevention for Rural Healthcare
Funding Amount: $45,000
Weisbrod Health will partner with cliexa, a Denver-based healthcare AI company, to pilot a sustainable, prevention-first billing strategy at a critical-access hospital, that will be able to identify coding gaps and documentation errors at the point of care, before claims are submitted.
Weisbrod relies on their three providers and lean support staff to manage billing in its entirety because there is a gap in dedicated billing specialists, a coding team, or denial management department. Denied claims, systematic undercoding, and delayed payments create a direct threat to the hospital’s continued operation and to healthcare access of everyone in Kiowa County who depends on it. For the residents of Kiowa County, many of whom must otherwise drive 90+ minutes to reach the next hospital, thus Weisbrod’s is the difference between having access to care and not having it.
The cliexa solution will reduce claim denials and increase revenue stability for Weisbrod, which covers a critical care gap as the only healthcare option for the residents of Kiowa County and surrounding southeastern Colorado communities.
cliexa & Lincoln Health
Challenge Area: AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Management for Rural Healthcare
Funding Amount: $30,000
Lincoln Health will also partner with cliexa to reduce claim denials, capture missed revenue and drive continuous improvement in documentation quality. The pilot will also measure impact on clinical staff time from billing and documentation burden to direct patient care.
For Lincoln’s patients, the impact is direct: when a rural hospital loses revenue to avoidable claim denials, the result is reduced hours, cut services, or staff departures that limit access to care. This partnership protects the healthcare services that Lincoln County residents depend on, and frees clinical staff from billing burden so they can spend more time with patients.
“These three projects reflect exactly what the eHealth Solutions Challenge was designed to accomplish,” said Alliance Executive Director Tyler Svitak. “Each one takes a practical, community-grounded approach to a real coordination challenge, and each has the potential to serve as a model for communities across Colorado.”
The eHealth Solutions Challenge was launched in January 2026 to address a persistent challenge facing public health systems: health outcomes depend on many different factors facilitated across different organizations, yet the data associated with them is often disconnected. The Challenge was designed to source technologies that can responsibly unite disparate data systems while maintaining data security, privacy, and data sovereignty.
All three project pilots are expected to launch later this year. CSCA and OeHI will share updates on project progress as demonstrations get underway.
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About the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance (CSCA)
The Colorado Smart Cities Alliance is the first state-wide alliance of its kind in the nation, bringing together public, private, federal research, and academic sector leaders committed to advancing smarter communities. The organization aims to enhance quality of life in Colorado by fostering sustainability, equity, resilience, and humanism in urban environments. Through partnership development, education, and capacity-building, the Alliance has facilitated some of the most innovative government technology projects in the state.
About the Colorado Office of eHealth Innovation (OeHI)
The Colorado Office of eHealth Innovation was established in 2015 to address the need for health information technology (IT) governance within the state. OeHI serves as the State-Designated Entity, responsible for managing and coordinating all Health IT strategy, policy, and funding across Colorado’s public and private sectors. The core mission of OeHI is to advance health parity and reduce health disparities in Colorado by coordinating health information technology, policies, and funding initiatives.
Contact
Chelsea Barrett
Colorado Smart Cities Alliance
chelsea@coloradosmart.city
