The iHealth Alliance is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to protect the interests of patients and providers, as healthcare increasingly moves online. The iHealth Alliance governs the Health Care Notification Network (HCNN) and will ensure that the network is used only for patient safety alerts.
The iHealth Alliance is chaired by Nancy W. Dickey, M.D., past President of the AMA, President of Health Science Center and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs for Texas A&M University.
The iHealth Alliance Board of Directors is comprised of industry leaders from medical societies, liability carriers, patient advocacy groups and others dedicated to protecting the interest of patients and providers.
President, Texas A&M Health Science Center
Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Texas A&M University System
Former President, American Medical Association, 1998-99
Chairman, iHealthAlliance
Chair, Board of Trustees
American Medical Association
Medical Director
Senior Vice President
The Doctors Company
Past President
Massachusetts Medical Society
Professor of Surgery
Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs
LSU Health Sciences Center
Medical Director, Medical Informatics
Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Clinic
Deputy Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer
Food and Drug Administration
Deputy Chief Medical Officer
American Cancer Society.
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer
Texas Medical Association
Former Chair, Board of Trustees
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Alliance for Health Information
Attorney
Brown McCarroll, L.L.P.
Executive Vice President
Chief Executive Officer
Louis J. Goodman is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Medical Association. Organized in 1853, TMA is a professional membership organization of more than 41,000 physician and medical student members. TMA is the nation’s largest state medical society.
An avid reader and devout student of leadership, Dr. Goodman leads by consensus and by example. By building a tight rapport with TMA’s volunteer physician leaders and insisting on constant collaboration with Texas’ 120 county medical societies, Dr. Goodman has built an organization that was named “America’s Best Medical Society” by Medical Economics magazine. Last year, the Texas Medical Association Board of Trustees created the Louis J. Goodman, PhD, Excellence in Leadership and Management Collection of the TMA Knowledge Center
Dr. Goodman is a 19-year veteran of the TMA staff. His varied health care experience includes an 11-year tenure at the American Medical Association. Dr. Goodman has a masters and a doctoral degree in public administration with a concentration in medical economics from New York University. He has written more than 70 articles on health care and medicine.
Dr. Goodman holds the appointment of adjunct associate professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, serves as immediate past chair of the Texas Society of Association Executives, and is an honorary member of the American Medical Association and past president of the American Association of Medical Society Executives.