An Epic celebration
May 8, 2021 |
After years of anticipation and hard work, the moment has finally arrived – Epic is here.
It’s all about connecting – connecting with our patients and with one another. This is why UTHealth has moved to an integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle system designed to enhance the connection for patients with their health care teams.
For this transformational initiative, called UTHealthCONNECT, UTHealth partnered with Epic Systems to implement a powerful tool for connecting patients to our health care providers who provide their care atUT Physicians clinics,UTHealth Harris County Psychiatric Center,UTHealth NeurosciencesandUT Health Services.
Registration, scheduling, clinical documentation, and billing are part of this single, integrated EHR, which launched onMay 8, 2021.
Executive Steering Committee
Electronic Health Record Governance Task Force
Revenue Cycle & Practice Management Task Force
HCPC Task Force
We have launched thistransformationalinitiative 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 launched the system in our health care settings in May 2021. Below is a recap of that launch schedule.
Through an enhanced online portal,MyUTHealth.org, patients are 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 connects our faculty and staff through the use of this integrated electronic health record and revenue cycle system designed to optimize countless processes. It focuses on the needs of practicing physicians, as well as other care providers and staff, all of whom participate in building a better system for our patients and one another.
To keep our employees informed, updates are posted regularly on theUTHealthCONNECT section of Inside UTHealth. andUTP Connect.