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.
Deborah Hiser has a masters degree in social work and a law degree from the University of Texas. Prior to law school she practiced as a psychiatric social worker in Austin, Texas. In 1981 she became worked as a plaintiff's civil rights attorney with Advocacy, Incorporated, in the position of senior attorney for the Mental Health program handling systemic class action litigation.
In 1994, Ms. Hiser went into private practice as a health care attorney representing physicians, consumers, health care entities and governmental agencies in regulatory health care matters. She has extensive experience in health care privacy laws, including HIPAA, and has represented consumers and health care providers in litigation, administrative hearings, and HIPAA complaints filed with the Office of Civil Rights. Ms. Hiser served as a member on the Texas Legislative Task Force on Privacy, and on the Texas Attorney General's HIPAA Preemption Analysis Task Force. She has spoken in Texas and nationally on HIPAA, privacy of medical records, health care regulatory matters and compliance with health care privacy laws. In addition, she assisted numerous physicians, hospitals, health care clinics, community mental health centers and nonprofit health care entities in developing HIPAA privacy and security policies.
Her current clients include the Indigent Care Collaboration, Austin's RHIO; Healthcare Access San Antonio, the San Antonio RHIO; numerous private health care providers, clinics, mental health centers; and a Houston Hospital. She serves on the Board of Peoples Community Clinic. Ms. Hiser's second job is taking care of her twin 16 year old boys!