TriWest wounded warrior support site earns silver award Published Nov. 30, 2009 By Scott Celley TriWest Healthcare Alliance PHOENIX -- TriWest Healthcare Alliance earned the Silver Award for Best Overall Internet Site for its Healing Heroes Portal at the 2009 eHealthcare Leadership Awards in Las Vegas. The portal was designed specifically to help military and civilian healthcare coordinators streamline the transition process between caregivers, hospitals and clinics for recovering service members. It also provides TRICARE benefit news, information and links to related resources for recovering service members and their families. "The Healing Heroes portal is the result of significant collaboration throughout TRICARE's 21-state west region," said TriWest President and CEO David McIntyre Jr. "TriWest worked with its Military Health System and VA partners to develop an online tool that can help Wounded Warriors as they go through the healing process. This award is a symbol of that work's success, which serves a much greater purpose." The site offers a "public" side for Wounded Warriors, their families and caregivers as well as a password-protected side for healthcare coordinators to access a repository of contact information, tools and resources to better assist recovering service members. The awards were announced at the Thirteenth Annual Healthcare Internet Conference. Winning sites were selected from more than 1,100 entries. Visit the Healing Heroes Portal at www.triwest.com/beneficiary/healingheroes.