Imagine booking medical and transportation appointments in one step

HIRTA Public Transit provides demand response services to population in 7 county areas, including Dallas County. HIRTA Public Transit applied for a project opportunity from the US DOT to complete a Health Connector Concept. What is a Health Connector Concept? Health Connector: An individual’s ability to go from origin to destination reliably, spontaneously, confidently, independently, safely, and efficiently without gaps in the travel chain.

During Phase 1: Concept Development, work is being completed to establish partners, develop cohort roundtables. We are in the process of developing an app that will schedule and manage medical appointments and transportation services in one application This phase will take up to 12 months.

HIRTA Public Transit and its team members will hold stakeholder meetings and public meetings to get feedback and information from different groups and target audiences. Our goal is to understand the limitations, challenges and options available for individuals.

Over this 24 month period, the HIRTA Public Transit team and partners will work to design, test and deploy a Health Connector Solution. Evaluations on the framework and planning will be completed.

Minimum of 18 months will be spent to demonstrate multiple large-scale deployments. The team will share data and lessons learned.

The overall goal is to sustain operations for a minimum period of five years after the program is completed with no additional funds focused on rural areas.