Strategic Plan
Health Starts Here
Health Starts Here is the strategic plan for The University of Texas Medical Center, anchored by Dell Medical School.
The plan identifies the strategic priorities of today while serving as a roadmap for our future: a world-class academic medical center that sets the standard for excellence in integrated, multidisciplinary patient care, pioneers research with meaningful impact, leads innovation in medical education and catalyzes life sciences entrepreneurship.
Change Starts Here
Aligned with Change Starts Here, The University of Texas at Austin’s 10-year strategic plan to become the highest-impact research university in the world, Health Starts Here gives shape to the University’s initiative to improve health and well-being — and to Dell Med’s vision of defining the future of health.
Strategic Objectives
- Expand access to high-quality, person-centered, integrated care for all.
- Maximize the use of data and technologies that drive optimal experience and outcomes.
- Build the hospital of the future to provide complex comprehensive care extending beyond its walls and designed to accommodate radical advancements.
- Champion models of care and digital transformations that reduce health care costs while enhancing quality, experience and value.
- Pursue authentic, bidirectional engagement that supports community-driven solutions with impact.
- Enable patients to be active partners in their health and the health of their community.
- Invest in partners and programs that align with our mission to advance equitable access to care.
- Design data and digital solutions that prioritize personalized treatments and experiences.
- Attract and develop outstanding students, trainees, faculty and staff who demonstrate curiosity, creativity and inquiry.
- Pioneer innovative, competency-based approaches to medical education.
- Advance collaborative, team-based health care through interprofessional education.
- Equip the workforce with the skills and knowledge to effectively use emerging digital tools, technologies and advanced analytics.
- Accelerate the discovery, delivery and diffusion of the next generation of preventive care, diagnoses, treatments and cures.
- Cultivate transdisciplinary collaboration that enables the convergence of talent and knowledge to propel discoveries that improve health.
- Facilitate conversion of research into practice by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical translation.
- Leverage the University’s strengths to amplify research, influence and impact.
- Catalyze life sciences entrepreneurship that translates scientific breakthroughs into viable health solutions that address unmet medical needs.
- Cultivate innovation through novel technology, data, artificial intelligence and digital capabilities that have a meaningful impact on improving health.
- Facilitate bidirectional interactions between strategic academic and industry collaborators and Dell Med researchers that guide innovations into product development.
- Foster an ecosystem that establishes Austin as the thriving hub for life sciences innovation.
Foundations for Success
People
Inspire, value and support our faculty and staff to contribute to their full potential.
Environment
Create a welcoming place for all people to heal, grow and learn.
Culture
Promote a culture of curiosity and collaboration that propels the continuous pursuit of knowledge and excellence.
Sustainability
Instill fiscal discipline and stewardship of public, private and philanthropic resources to ensure our financial resilience in supporting our mission.