In summer 2006, at the request of the Colorado Rural Health Center, CHI staff interviewed representatives of 39 of the state’s 44 Rural Health Clinics (RHC). The interviews were designed to assess each clinic’s capacity to collect and report uniform patient-level data, in particular: (1) data required by the federal Health Services and Resource Administration of all community health centers receiving federal grants, and (2) data required to apply for monies from the Primary Care Fund (PCF) established by the tobacco tax increase mandated in Amendment 35 to Colorado’s constitution. Clinic staff representatives also were asked to take part in an information technology assessment survey.

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