The myUConnHealth portal provides patients with secure, real-time access to their medical chart, including notes from their visits and lab and test results. They also can send messages to their providers, request prescription renewals, manage appointments, and keep their own information updated in between visits.

And while patients benefit individually, the integrated health record generates aggregate data that can lead to promising advances in epidemiology.

The goal of this project is to ensure as many patients as possible are enrolled in and utilizing the myUConnHealth portal.

It is estimated that nearly 10-20% of someone’s health is modifiable, while the other 80-90% is a product of their environment collectively termed as the social determinants of health (SDH).[1] The World Health Organization (WHO) defines SDH as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels.”[2]

Access to resources such as a safe living environment, food, health literacy, insurance status and many other factors drive health care outcomes and there are certain vulnerable populations who have additional barriers to care where these social determinants result in worse health care outcomes.

This project's goal is to screen patients for such SDH and barriers to care, and to help them overcome those barriers with student-led interventions.

Many patients who would benefit from visits with their physician do not regularly make and/or keep such appointments. There are many reasons why this may occur, but the fact remains that continued care by a physician is a key aspect of a person's health.

The goal of this project is to contact patients due for visits and help them schedule and attend such appointments. This includes identifying and helping overcome barriers to accessing medical care.