We need your commitment to iHealth Trust health information exchange (HIE) due to external regulatory requirements. We are asking you to commit to support the iHealth Trust HIE if it is selected by the Texas Health Services Authority to operate an HIE in Houston/Galveston.

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Check out the detailed overview of the HIE (Health Information Exchange) coming to Houston-Galveston. Physicians are the mainstay of health care. It is the participation of physicians that enables health information exchange to be successful.

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is a 501-c3 Houston community owned and directed nonprofit organization whose purpose is to improve healthcare quality and contain rising costs in the Greater Houston area by engaging patients, their healthcare providers, and other authorized entities in the exchange of health information.

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Vision

To enhance healthcare quality and effectiveness for all patients, the healthcare sector should be supported by an infrastructure made up of interoperable, electronic health records composed of standardized, structured data elements that are exchanged among authorized healthcare organizations and providers across secure regional and statewide networks.

Mission

To improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of the community's healthcare sector by enabling the deliver high quality, cost-effective healthcare for all patients by utilizing secure, electronically collected information, serving as a trusted third party fiduciary for the depositor of that information.

STRATEGY/OBJECTIVES

Improve quality of health care, safety, and efficiency, create accountable care by providing patients and families an active role; coordinate healthcare between patients, physicians and other healthcare providers; ensure privacy and controlled access for personal health information; improve public health outcomes through the use of de-identified health information for research.

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

The highest quality of healthcare delivery requires that decision makers have immediate, complete and comprehensive access to healthcare data. Decision makers include physicians and other providers on individual clinical matters as well as other entities who use de-identified data to look at population-based information to improve the process of care.

13Mar

History As Our Guide

History As Our Guide
Manfred Sternberg Jr.

With all the talk about the National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN) and Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIO) and now Health Information Exchanges (HIE), one can easily draw instructive historic analogies from our nation’s early airport construction efforts. The Federal government had a problem. The country would greatly benefit from this, to be developed, infrastructure. However, there was little national funding to build it.

15Feb

We Need Your Commitment Now!

The Texas Health Services Authority (THSA), a public-private partnership to promote and coordinate electronic health information exchange in the State of Texas, has been empowered to distribute the federal stimulus dollars allocated to Texas. The THSA has released a very short timeline for communities to develop HIEs to meet the requirements of ARRA and HITECH and to enable to physicians to capture their share of the financial incentive from Medicare and Medicaid.

15Feb

For All Texas Physicians outside the Greater Houston/Galveston Area.

iHealth Trust Health Information Exchange (HIE)

The iHealth Trust Health Information Exchange (HIE) promotes the exchange of health information, with assured privacy and anytime-anywhere access, resulting in all stakeholders having complete healthcare information and decision support. We believe that excellence in health care requires engagement of physicians, health care providers, patients and healthcare organizations in achieving better coordination of care.

14Feb

Attention Physicians!

Health Information Exchange (HIE) Information Meeting

Physicians in the Greater Houston-Galveston Area, you are cordially invited to attend our upcoming information meetings sponsored by iHealth Trust. These meetings are intended to provide a detailed overview of the health information exchange coming to Houston-Galveston. Physicians are the mainstay of health care. It is participation by physicians that enables health information exchange to be successful. You may also want to review our vision of an HIE