Name
Building Bridges, Not Barriers: Creating Shared Infrastructure for Equitable Care Coordination
Description

Leveraging HealthConnect Texas’s existing Master Patient Index of 24+ million lives and broad healthcare organizational engagement across the Houston region, the Health Equity Collective systems coalition is leading a closed-loop referral demonstration project connecting healthcare with social service organizations to meet patient needs. This approach is sustainable and iterative, as it’s based on shared governance, care coordination workflows informed by community input, and data-sharing agreements, with technology linkages developed to align with these components.

Presentation Learning Objectives
1) Attendees will be able to describe how a framework for shared governance was used to establish multi-sector care coordination workflows and technology interoperability.
2) Attendees will assess the findings and successes of a network approach to build multi-sector care coordination, anchored in a health information exchange.
3) Attendees will demonstrate an understanding of community voice engagement processes for informing organizational care coordination workflows.
Speaker Name
Heidi M. Hagen McPherson
Speaker Credentials
MPH
Speaker Title
Sr. Project Manager
Speaker Organization
UTHealth/Health Equity Collective
Speaker 2 Name
Micaela Sandoval
Speaker 2 Credentials
CTO
Speaker 2 Title
Assistant Professor and Project Co-Investigator
Speaker 2 Organization
UTHealth on behalf of the HIE
Speaker 3 Name
Richard Bartle-Tubbs
Speaker 3 Credentials
MA, MEd
Speaker 3 Title
Project Lead (Data Governance)
Speaker 3 Organization
DARO
Speaker 4 Name
Melanie McGuire
Speaker 4 Title
Sr. Director of Programs
Speaker 4 Organization
Houston Food Bank