We have launched this transformational initiative to empower our patients, caregivers, researchers, health care delivery partners, and business managers with contemporary tools and processes that deliver powerful reporting, improved outcomes, efficient billing, and prevention of medical errors.

Epic emphasizes care delivery and has been putting its patients at the center of the are experience for more than 40 years. After an extensive review of EHR systems, with input from stakeholders across UTHealth, we concluded that Epic would best fulfill the needs of patients and our university community and allow for improved integration with our teaching hospitals.

We have begun the pre-work phase and expect to “go live,” launching the system in our health care settings in May 2021.

Through an enhanced online portal, once the electronic health records system is live in May 2021, patients will be able to easily schedule appointments, see lab results, communicate with their provider through messaging and other tools, pay bills, and much more.

The UTHealthCONNECT initiative will connect our faculty and staff through the use of integrated electronic health record and revenue cycle system that is designed to optimize countless processes. It will focus on the needs of practicing physicians, as well as other care providers and staff, all of whom will participate in building a better system for our patients and one another.

To keep our employees informed, updates will be posted regularly on this website as well as the UTHealthCONNECT section on Inside UTHealth Secured Page . and UTP Connect Secured Page .

Throughout the implementation of the EHR system and during the launch in our clinics and psychiatric hospital, volunteers will be essential to our success. If you are interested in volunteer opportunities related to the UTHealthCONNECT initiative, please fill out the contact form below!.  Thank you.