About Us

The Texas AHEC East-Greater Houston Region is a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the health of our population, especially the underserved, by creating partnerships with and among community and academic organizations.

4014 Market Streeet, Suite W111
Houston, Texas 77020

Phone: 713-592-6411

Fax: 713-592-6411

MSEARCH 2019 "BYOD"
(Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health)

Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health (MSEARCH) 2019 Bring your own device is an electronic skill building program focused on educating seniors’ in Harris and surrounding counties. The University of Texas Health Cizik School of Nursing and the Greater Houston Region have partnered to provide classes to The City of Houston and Baker Ripley Multi-service centers since 2010. Twenty student nurses are involved with curriculum development and instruction. Mobile tablets are provided for each class and participants engage in hands on activities to develop basic mobile table device skills and how to navigate to the National Libraries of Medicine (NLM) health information resources. Classroom participant size has a maximum capacity of twenty. This size provides a better learning environment for the seniors and offer an estimated teacher to student ratio of two to one. This program is an expansion of the MSEARCH program that was developed and successfully implemented by the Greater Houston Region.  As a result of the program, approximately 200+ seniors have learned basic mobile tablet device skills and were introduced to the NLM online health resources.