“This adoption will enable eHI to build on its existing experience and further embrace a patient-centered focus as a key component of eHI’s work to promote an information-driven healthcare system,” said
eHI’s adoption of the IxAction Alliance, which was previously operated by the Center for Information Therapy (IxCenter), comes on the heels of the announcement that the IxCenter will be ceasing operations as its founder and president, Joshua Seidman, PhD, moves to the federal Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology to help lead government efforts around consumer engagement and the meaningful use of electronic health records. eHI will also absorb the intellectual property of the IxCenter.
Information Therapy (Ix) is the timely prescription and availability of evidence-based health information to meet individuals' specific needs and support sound decision making. “Much like prescriptions for medication,” Covich Bordenick said, “Ix prescriptions are specifically targeted to an individual's needs at a particular moment in care and are delivered as part of the process of care.”
The IxAction Alliance will be run within eHI as a separate program, maintaining its identity and its websites (www.IxCenter.org and www.IxAction.org). However, eHI will leverage its own resources, membership, and reputation in seeking out ways to grow the IxAction Alliance and to advance its mission. eHI will be working in the coming weeks to provide opportunities for strong and continuous interaction between eHI members and IxAction Alliance supporters, including opportunities for organizations to concurrently participate in eHI and
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About eHealth Initiative and its Foundation
The eHealth Initiative (eHI) is an independent, non-profit, multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to drive improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care through information and information technology. eHI engages multiple stakeholders including clinicians, consumer and patient groups, employers and healthcare purchasers, health IT suppliers, health plans, hospitals and other providers, laboratories, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, pharmacies, public health agencies, and state and community-based organizations, to reach agreement on and drive the adoption of common principles, policies, strategies and actions that improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health care through information technology that are responsible, practical, sustainable, responsible to stakeholder needs—particularly those of patients--and build and maintain the public's trust. For more information, visit www.ehealthinitiative.org.
About the IxAction
The IxAction Alliance is an alliance of organizations committed to stimulating innovation and diffusing best practices and to evolving critical Ix strategies with the goal of advancing the practice and science of information therapy in order to improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery. The IxAction Alliance envisions a future for our healthcare system in which every health decision made collaboratively by patients and providers is an informed one. For more information, visit www.IxAction.org.