The first step was to revamp Intermountain's database to better link patient records at its hospitals and clinics to track how well each patient was faring in various measures of care, such as whether heart patients were getting the right drugs.

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While the economy is faring better in Colorado than nationwide, it is one of the issues that is not helping Democrats right now, they acknowledge.

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