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.
Edward L. Langston, MD, a family physician in private practice in Lafayette, Ind., has been a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees (BOT) since June 2003. In June 2007 he began serving as chair of the AMA-BOT for 2007-2008. He has served in the AMA House of Delegates since 1987, as alternate delegate and then delegate from Indiana. Most recently, he served as alternate delegate and delegate of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Also within the AMA, he has been a member and chair of the Specialty and Service Society, and a member of the Council on Medical Education (1997-2003).
Dr. Langston was chair of the Commission on Legislation and a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Medical Association before moving to the Texas Medical Center in Houston, where he was a family practice program director and associate professor (1993-1996). In 1996 Dr. Langston moved to Illinois to serve as vice president of medical affairs and medical education for the Trinity Regional Health System in Rock Island. Nominated by the Illinois Medical Society and appointed by the governor, Dr. Langston served on the state Medicaid Prescription Drug Advisory Committee until returning to Indiana in 2000.
Dr. Langston has been actively involved in his specialty-as president of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians, as a member of the AAFP board of directors (1991-1993) and as vice president of the AAFP (1994). He was also chair of the AAFP delegation to the AMA (1999-2002).
Dr. Langston has served his other profession, pharmacy, as a member of the board of trustees of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia (1995-2000). Currently he is an affiliate assistant professor in the School of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. After moving to Lafayette in 2000, Dr. Langston was appointed coordinator for the Lafayette Medical Education Foundation in 2001. He serves as part-time faculty at the Community Hospital Family Practice residency program, where he was previously director (1988-1992). He also served on the board of directors of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (1998-2003). Since January 2005, he has served on the board of commissioners of the Joint Commission.
Dr. Langston received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, and was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, medicine's honor society. He completed a family practice residency program at St. Mary's Graduate Medical Center in Evansville, Ind., and is board-certified in family medicine. He earned his BS degree in pharmacy from Purdue University.
Dr. Langston and his wife, Linda, have two daughters, three granddaughters and two grandsons.