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The eHealth Initiative and the Foundation for eHealth Initiative are independent, non-profit affiliated organizations, whose shared mission is to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare information technology [HIT].

Protean Stakeholders

Both organizations are focused on engaging diverse stakeholders–including hospitals and other healthcare organizations, clinician, consumers and patient groups, employers and purchasers, health plans, manufacturers, public health agencies, academic and research institutions, and public sector stakeholders–to define and then implement specific actions that will address the quality, safety and efficiency challenges of domestic medical care through the use of interoperable HIT.

Membership

Since 2001, the eHealth Initiative has represented a diverse membership that is improving HIT. Over the years, eHI membership has grown to over 200 organizations.

Coalition Growth

In 2005, eHI launched the eHI Connecting Communities Membership, a rapidly growing coalition of leaders representing more than 200 state, regional and community-based initiatives focused on improving health through information exchange.

In 2009, eHI adopted the Information Therapy (Ix) Action Alliance. The IxAction Alliance, previously a part of the Center for Information Therapy – an eHI member – resides at the intersection of patient-centered care and HIT, focusing on issues relating to the prescription and use of targeted health information to help people make good health decisions and lead healthy lives.

Assessment

The adoption of e-health initiatives promises to revolutionize health care in the United States by reducing errors, improving the quality of care delivered, reducing costs, and empowering consumers to better understand and address their own health care needs.

eHI is one of the few organization that represents all stakeholders in the industry. eHI advocates for the use of health IT that is practical, sustainable and addresses stakeholder needs, particularly those of patients.

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