UTMB’s Approach to Technology-Supported Medicine

A Common Technology Platform

Use of Electronic Medical Records

Digital Medical Services®
and the Virtual Physician Office

Telehealth Online Courses <CLICK HERE

Informatics, Outcomes Research, and Evidence-based Clinical and Administrative Management

Collaboration Opportunities

Contact Information

Mickey Bourdeau

Executive Director, UTMB Electronic Health Network

Electronic Health Network

University of Texas Medical Branch

5.518 Levin Hall

301 University Blvd.

Galveston, TX 77555-1042

Phone: 409-747-5290

Fax: 409-747-6299

mjbourde@utmb.edu

Telemedicine and Telehealth -
a Tradition at the University of Texas Medical Branch

The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas has a long-standing history of advancing the use of telecommunications technology for the purpose of improving health care delivery to rural and underserved populations of Texas. Since 1995, clinicians and researchers at UTMB have been testing, refining, and utilizing telemedicine and telehealth technologies to improve and develop telemedicine – solving the problems of access to quality medical care. UTMB’s telemedicine program has been recognized as one of the top telemedicine programs in the United States and has been inducted into the Smithsonian Permanent Research Collection for Innovation in Information Technology. UTMB’s services comprise the largest operational telemedicine operation in the world, with over 300 locations and over 60,000 patient encounters annually.

The UTMB Electronic Health Network (EHN)
One Resource for UTMB Telemedicine

Created in 2004, the UTMB Electronic Health Network (EHN) centralizes all of UTMB’s considerable skills, competencies, and technical resources into one entity. The EHN is charged with operating, analyzing and making available to others the systems and programs that prove effective in the area of telehealth and telemedicine. The Electronic Health Network takes an inclusive, enterprise-level view of integrating all health technology components into a single system for medical care delivery that benefits providers, patients, and payers in the health care environment. The University of Texas Medical Branch believes that proven electronic information technologies can be applied to improve the quality and efficiency of health care, and improve access to needed services.