EMI Advisors and Patient-Centric Solutions Partner with Mission Analytics to Assess Feasibility of a Consent Management Repository in Colorado
Washington, DC; Thursday, April 3, 2025 — EMI Advisors (EMI) and Patient Centric Solutions (PCS) have joined forces to support Mission Analytics Group, Inc. in its contract with the Office of eHealth Innovation (OeHI) to evaluate the feasibility of a centralized digital consent management repository for the State of Colorado. This initiative, authorized by House Bill 24-1217, represents a significant step in modernizing and securing patient consent processes across healthcare, behavioral health, and social services.
The project will assess technical, legal, and policy considerations surrounding a statewide digital consent repository. The proposed repository aims to give patients greater control over their health information, allowing them to provide, extend, deny, or revoke consent in real-time. By ensuring that consent preferences are stored securely and are accessible when needed, the repository will facilitate seamless care coordination among providers, payers, and social service organizations while improving data accuracy and trust in information exchange.
"A co-designed consent repository has the power to transform care coordination, ensuring that patient preferences are respected and better managed across health and social service systems regardless of data source", said Evelyn Gallego, CEO and Founder of EMI Advisors. "By establishing a standardized approach to capture and act on all types of consent, this initiative has the potential to improve transparency, build patient trust, and demonstrate that secure, patient-centered data sharing is possible. If implemented effectively, Colorado could set a national precedent for how computable consent can enable true interoperability while safeguarding privacy and patient autonomy."
“The PCS team is excited to partner with Mission, EMI, and the OeHI team to identify and evaluate the best solution for the State of Colorado,” shares Nancy Lush, President at PCS. “Ultimately, we aim to enable consent access and management that improves care coordination while honoring patient privacy and improving trust.”
Key components of this effort include robust stakeholder engagement and an environmental scan. The project team will work closely with the Colorado Consent Management Workgroup to ensure the consent repository design is practical, scalable, and aligned with national interoperability standards and multi-stakeholder needs. We will also examine existing data-sharing infrastructures, regulatory requirements, and best practices from other states to develop recommendations tailored to Colorado’s unique needs.
If implemented, the consent repository will deliver significant benefits, including:
Improved care coordination by enabling authorized providers to access up-to-date consent records across health and social service systems.
Enhanced patient autonomy and trust through a transparent and user-friendly consent management process.
Stronger data security and privacy by aligning with HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and other regulatory frameworks.
Streamlined administrative processes for providers, reducing paperwork and inefficiencies in managing consent across different organizations.
Support for interoperability initiatives by ensuring that consent data integrates seamlessly with Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), Electronic Health Records (EHRs), and other state data-sharing platforms.
The findings of this study will be presented to the Colorado legislature by January 2026, informing future policy and investment decisions regarding digital consent management infrastructure.
About EMI Advisors
EMI Advisors LLC (EMI) is a boutique technology and innovation consulting firm that harnesses disruptive solutions for the greater good. Our team works side-by-side with our client partners to provide strategic, operational, and technical advisory services across the health, human services, defense, environment, and information technology sectors. We are mission-driven and consider it a privilege to design and build solutions that improve the well-being of individuals, communities, societies, and our planet. EMI is an SBA 8(a) certified Economically and Socially Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business.
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About Mission Analytics
Mission Analytics is an employee-owned, woman-owned small business, and benefit corporation based in San Francisco. Its mission is to identify, improve and promote effective public and private strategies to support vulnerable children and adults to be safe and healthy living in the community. Mission Analytics offers high powered mixed-method analysis to help health and human service programs achieve their missions. The firm provided technical assistance, real-time analysis, performance measurement, risk monitoring, and program evaluation to federal, state, and local government clients, as well as private foundations. Mission Analytics has worked with Colorado agencies across the health and human services enterprise for more than a dozen years.
About Patient-Centric Solutions
Patient Centric Solutions (PCS) was founded with a mission to leverage technology to support whole-person care, lower burden for providers, streamline the ability to share information, and ultimately improve the quality of care. PCS has strong expertise in the development and implementation of standards-based infrastructure and applications to solve critical healthcare interoperability problems. PCS founders and leaders bring over five decades of experience providing consulting services and solutions to public and private entities developing complex, interoperable solutions through a user-focused approach. Leaders from PCS sit on a wide variety of HL7, security, and FHIR® standards teams. The PCS team members have been actively engaged in consent since 2015, created a patient-mediated exchange solution based on computable consent, worked on the SAMHSA Consent 2Share Project, authored whitepapers on automating consent and patient privacy, and has been an active contributor to both the SHIFT (Independent Health Care Task Force for Equitable Interoperability) and Stewards of Change workgroups.
