Healthy Texas: The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Community Health Web Portal
Mary E. Moore, Deborah Kaercher · Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet · 2008
Over a period of 8 years, 40 health organizations in South Texas came together to develop a plan for a Web site that would provide regional health information, directories, and opportunities for health consumers to share experiences in health and disease. The result was Healthy Texas . This portal had vision and promise and may yet achieve its potential if the partners are willing to continue their commitment. The experience has implications for others undertaking a regional consumer health Web portal.