Dick Thompson is the Executive Director and CEO of Quality Health Network(QHN) a non-profit community collaborative. As one of the first Health Information Exchanges(HIE) in the nation, QHN has been fully operational for almost ten years and is continually expanding its services and footprint throughout the 40,000 square miles of Western Colorado.

QHN’s infrastructure includes data delivery systems, robust data warehousing, risk stratification and predictive modeling analytics, enhanced preventive and chronic care decision support, and provider alert systems. As a key member of the Colorado Beacon Consortium (CBC), QHN helped model best practices for improving quality and reducing costs. In 2003 the CBC received a Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award in recognition of their innovations in leveraging technology to improve the quality of healthcare delivery.

The organization has achieved many significant milestones under Dick’s leadership as the network became an operational HIE in less than eight months and attained positive cash flow within two years of startup. QHN’s significant progress has been noted by industry publications including Healthcare Informatics, Health Leaders Magazine, Most Wired, Managed Healthcare Exec, and many other publications.

QHN is a key player in Colorado’s healthcare reform with Dick serving as a charter Board Member of Colorado’s Center for Improving Value in Healthcare (CIVHC) organization and serves on numerous state and national boards and committees to advance health IT. The organization is nationally recognized and has achieved significant milestones under Dick’s leadership. His extensive business background includes three decades of management experience in software technology and support organizations with special successes in “start up” organizations.