About MyHealth
MyHealth Access Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering physicians and patients the most effective, cutting-edge technology available in health care information. Patient care is improved because providers and specialists have direct access to one another to collaborate on patient care. Providers are able to instantly access patient health information through a secure connection.
MyHealth and its stakeholders also recognize the need to coordinate care with many different agencies, catering not only to a person’s physical health but to all the social determinants of a more healthful life.
We believe the 5 rights of health information: Right patient, right provider, right information at the right time in the right setting. We believe in the individual right to privacy and security and we value a healthy community.
MyHealth was one of 17 ONC-funded Beacon Communities interested in building and strengthening local health IT infrastructure and testing innovative approaches to make measurable improvement in health, care and cost. Our organization focuses on health information exchange, community-wide care coordination, community-wide clinical decision support, patient engagement and shared decision making and quality improvement through interventions such as provider portal, electronic referrals, online consultation, advanced community health analytics, provider alerts and care gap analysis.
About MyHealth
MyHealth Access Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering physicians and patients the most effective, cutting-edge technology available in health care information. Patient care is improved because providers and specialists have direct access to one another to collaborate on patient care. Providers are able to instantly access patient health information through a secure connection.
MyHealth and its stakeholders also recognize the need to coordinate care with many different agencies, catering not only to a person’s physical health but to all the social determinants of a more healthful life.
We believe the 5 rights of health information: Right patient, right provider, right information at the right time in the right setting. We believe in the individual right to privacy and security and we value a healthy community.
MyHealth was one of 17 ONC-funded Beacon Communities interested in building and strengthening local health IT infrastructure and testing innovative approaches to make measurable improvement in health, care and cost. Our organization focuses on health information exchange, community-wide care coordination, community-wide clinical decision support, patient engagement and shared decision making and quality improvement through interventions such as provider portal, electronic referrals, online consultation, advanced community health analytics, provider alerts and care gap analysis.
Governance
As a non-profit organization, MyHealth Access Network is overseen and governed by the Board of Directors. Our board is comprised of leaders intentionally selected from all segments of Oklahoma’s healthcare industry to ensure MyHealth is serving the interests of the entire community. Our Board includes representatives of patients, doctors, health systems, community clinics, medical schools, tribal health, health insurers, allied health, and employers. MyHealth’s mission to improve the health of Oklahoman’s, the quality of care received by each individual, and to lower the cost of healthcare were the founding principles and remain the guiding objectives of all decisions made by the organization. MyHealth welcomes input and involvement. Please contact us to learn more about us.
Governance
As a non-profit organization, MyHealth Access Network is overseen and governed by the Board of Directors. Our board is comprised of leaders intentionally selected from all segments of Oklahoma’s healthcare industry to ensure MyHealth is serving the interests of the entire community. Our Board includes representatives of patients, doctors, health systems, community clinics, medical schools, tribal health, health insurers, allied health, and employers. MyHealth’s mission to improve the health of Oklahoman’s, the quality of care received by each individual, and to lower the cost of healthcare were the founding principles and remain the guiding objectives of all decisions made by the organization. MyHealth welcomes input and involvement. Please contact us to learn more about us.
History
MyHealth was started by the health care industry in the Tulsa region to function conceptually as a non-profit health care public utility. The project kicked off in June 2009, when executives from the regional healthcare organizations assembled at the request of Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor to discuss Oklahoma’s troubling public health profile, with Oklahoma ranked last or next to last in several national measures and mostly D’s and F’s on the Oklahoma Health Department’s “State of the State’s Health” report card.
Oklahoma has high quality medical providers, and our institutions perform well when compared with their national peers. The leaders agreed that improvement needed a community-wide focus. A charter was prepared to kick off a series of planning meetings, resulting in the formation of the non-profit organization that became MyHealth Access Network today.
The plan that emerged from the planning session enabled the organization to qualify for one of seventeen federal Beacon Community Awards, which funded the initial launch of the organization from 2010 to 2013. MyHealth’s formation was guided significantly by the experience of the Secure Medical Records Transfer Network (SMRTNET), another Oklahoma health information exchange that had been under development since 2004 and had been live since March 2008 serving facilities in other parts of the state. Various factors lead the two organizations to remain separate, and for a time, they were in competition with one another.
In 2014, the boards of the non-profit organizations came together and decided to integrate SMRTNET into MyHealth. The resulting organization combined the best of what both networks had to offer with a membership that reaches across the entire state of Oklahoma.
MyHealth has facilitated the region’s participation in many national initiatives which has brought millions of dollars of additional funding to our region, creating hundreds of new jobs and raising Oklahoma into the national spotlight. We have become a demonstrate site for how effective implementation of health information technology, in a collaborative cooperative effort lead primarily by the private sector can fuel improvement in the quality of health outcomes, the health of individuals, at a lower overall cost.
History
MyHealth was started by the health care industry in the Tulsa region to function conceptually as a non-profit health care public utility. The project kicked off in June 2009, when executives from the regional healthcare organizations assembled at the request of Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor to discuss Oklahoma’s troubling public health profile, with Oklahoma ranked last or next to last in several national measures and mostly D’s and F’s on the Oklahoma Health Department’s “State of the State’s Health” report card.
Oklahoma has high quality medical providers, and our institutions perform well when compared with their national peers. The leaders agreed that improvement needed a community-wide focus. A charter was prepared to kick off a series of planning meetings, resulting in the formation of the non-profit organization that became MyHealth Access Network today.
The plan that emerged from the planning session enabled the organization to qualify for one of seventeen federal Beacon Community Awards, which funded the initial launch of the organization from 2010 to 2013. MyHealth’s formation was guided significantly by the experience of the Secure Medical Records Transfer Network (SMRTNET), another Oklahoma health information exchange that had been under development since 2004 and had been live since March 2008 serving facilities in other parts of the state. Various factors lead the two organizations to remain separate, and for a time, they were in competition with one another.
In 2014, the boards of the non-profit organizations came together and decided to integrate SMRTNET into MyHealth. The resulting organization combined the best of what both networks had to offer with a membership that reaches across the entire state of Oklahoma.
MyHealth has facilitated the region’s participation in many national initiatives which has brought millions of dollars of additional funding to our region, creating hundreds of new jobs and raising Oklahoma into the national spotlight. We have become a demonstrate site for how effective implementation of health information technology, in a collaborative cooperative effort lead primarily by the private sector can fuel improvement in the quality of health outcomes, the health of individuals, at a lower overall cost.