New free AI platform coming to campus community Feb. 20

By Lisa Raynor-Keck, UTHealth Houston
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UTHealth Houston is taking a major step forward in secure innovation. Launching Friday, Feb. 20, Qualified Health will begin delivering powerful, PHI-compliant generative AI — bringing  Copilot and ChatGPT-style capabilities to students, faculty, and staff at no cost.

This all-in-one, enterprise-level platform, funded by The University of Texas System, is designed to drive institution-wide innovation and productivity. Qualified Health automatically provides access to multiple AI models and is HIPAA and FERPA compliant.

It can be used to draft documents, create project plans and budgets, get up to speed on new topics quickly, summarize lengthy articles, documents, and datasets, and much more.

Core capabilities

Qualified Health’s chat-based assistants can perform the following functions:

  • Personal writing editors
  • Medical coding validators
  • Root cause analyzers
  • Team standard operating procedure and triage bots
  • Clinical note composers
  • IT service desk assistants

The platform allows users to securely interact with institution-specific data and document archives, delivering accurate, grounded responses without hallucinations.

Qualified Health assistants can also:

  • Provide context
  • Specify instructions and guardrails
  • Reference approved ground-truth documents
  • Recall and cite information with document references

Upcoming training session

Join Qualified Health at noon on Friday, Feb. 27, for a platform overview and live demonstration. The session will also include instructions on best practices and conclude with a live Q&A. Register online.

Data privacy and security

Qualified Health was built with privacy and security as a priority.

  • No data commercialization: Data is never used to train AI models, sold, or shared with unauthorized third parties.
  • Data isolation: Information is isolated in secure cloud environments.
  • Zero-copy architecture: Data remains within UTHealth Houston’s environment and is never duplicated or stored by Qualified Health.
  • Data protection: 256-bit AES encryption is used both at rest and in transit.
  • Role-based access controls: Least-privilege access is enforced for sensitive data and AI tools.

Phase 2 implementation

Beginning in March, users will have access to custom AI agents, which can execute autonomous tasks. Those interested in building a custom agent should contact [email protected].

How to log in

Everyone at UTHealth Houston has access to Qualified Chat with their uth.tmc.edu credentials. To log in beginning Feb. 20, visit go.uth.edu/qhai.

For assistance with logging in, contact the IT Solution Center or call 713-486-4848.