Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital launches MyChart

St. Cloud, FL (June 21, 2021) – Responding to an ever-changing technology ecosystem and the need to ensure patients have a convenient and simple way to stay connected to their medical records and engage with physicians, Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital has debuted the new Orlando Health MyChart patient portal. Launched on June 19, the free portal gives patients round-the-clock access to all their healthcare information using an App.

Through using the MyChart portal, patients can easily send or receive a secure message from their doctor, manage appointments, view test results, request prescription refills and pay bills from their computer, tablet or smartphone. The new portal provides a more personal experience for Orlando Health St. Cloud patients or an approved loved one—who can help manage the patient’s care as needed.

According to Orlando Health Chief Information Officer, Novlet Mattis, the MyChart feature was part of the institution’s efforts to streamline health data and care delivery for patients and clinicians across the healthcare system. The transformation began earlier this year with the implementation of Epic, one of the most widely used and comprehensive health records (CHR) system.

“There was an increasing need for efficiency and simplicity in our operations,” Ms. Mattis said. “Our new CHR system, which includes the MyChart patient portal feature, will allow such and facilitate the information sharing that empowers our clinicians and patients.”

At Orlando Health St. Cloud, patients who visit with a provider will receive an after-visit summary that contains information regarding their visit. Included in the summary is a MyChart activation code that allows the patient to create an account with their own username and password on the Orlando Health MyChart website.

Additionally, for those patients who would like to sign up to use MyChart, but do not have an after-visit summary from an Orlando Health St. Cloud physician, they can go to www.orlandohealth.com/mychart and click ‘sign up now’. The patient will be taken to another sign up page where they will see a prompt that says, ‘no activation code?’ and they can click ‘sign up online’.

“We are very excited to have this feature available for patients at Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital,” said Ohme Entin, president of Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital. “I encourage all of our patients, who are able to do so, to utilize the MyChart patient portal as it gives patients the information needed to better manage their healthcare, which leads to improved outcomes. This is just one way we are providing top care to our patients in St. Cloud and the wider Osceola County.”

The Epic CHR system with the MyChart patient portal is one of the many technology advancements to be implemented at Orlando Health St. Cloud since the acquisition by Orlando Health in July 2020. In addition to the website, patients can also download the MyChart App from either the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

About Orlando Health:

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $7.1 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States.

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for its pediatric and adult Level One Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level Two Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health is a statutory teaching system that pioneers life-changing medical research. The 3,200-bed system includes 15 wholly-owned hospitals and emergency departments; rehabilitation services, cancer and heart institutes, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, physician offices for adults and pediatrics, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with CareSpot Urgent Care. Nearly 4,200 physicians, representing more than 80 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs nearly 22,000 team members. In FY20, Orlando Health served nearly 150,000 inpatients and nearly 3.1 million outpatients. During that same time period, Orlando Health provided approximately $760 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more. Additional information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @orlandohealth.