Date & Time
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Location Name
Platinum Breakout 5
Session Type
Breakout Session
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.
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.
Speakers
Heidi M. Hagen McPherson, MPH, Senior Project Manager & Co-Lead Health Equity Collective, UTHealth/Health Equity Collective
Micaela Sandoval, UTHealth School of Public Health
Richard Bartle-Tubbs, DARO
Melanie McGuire, Senior Director of Programs, Houston Food Bank
Micaela Sandoval, UTHealth School of Public Health
Richard Bartle-Tubbs, DARO
Melanie McGuire, Senior Director of Programs, Houston Food Bank