January 16, 2019 All Articles 0
By Drs. Aaron Neinstein and Christopher Longhurst. In a major advance for patients, the nearly 5 million people who receive care annually at any of the University of California medical centers – including Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and…
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December 12, 2018 All Articles 0
By Marissa Ventura. They came from across the country to dream up ideas, using technology, to improve patient engagement and their experience in today’s health-care system. Whether it involved crowd-sourcing, blockchain technology, or Alexa skills, more than 200 undergraduate and…
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November 28, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Amy Sitapati, Brian Clay, and Marlene Millen. Thanks in no small part to digitization, medicine today is much different than the medicine of yesterday. Plenty has already been written about how electronic health record (EHR) systems amplify the time,…
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By Traci Farrell. In a university setting, custom application development teams can hit roadblocks when project sponsors, designers, and developers have different definitions of success. To try to circumvent this problem, the Design and Discovery team in UCSF School of…
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August 1, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. Patient data – it’s a gold mine for health research. Without patient data, researchers can’t analyze conditions, explore treatment efficacy, consider new models of personalized care…
And in today’s fast-paced and competitive world of health research, researchers…
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June 6, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Yvonne Tevis. Imagine you’re presenting your tech solution at a conference. You start to hear a buzz in the room. People are standing up, taking pictures of your slides. Everyone’s asking how they can get your product.
A daydream?…
Read more about UC Hospital IT Innovation Launches a Business
May 9, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Alison Spencer. Transforming anatomy classes. Developing curriculum management systems. These are just two examples of how the Technology Enhanced Education (TEE) team at UC San Francisco serves as a partner in medical education. “Our mission is to enhance medical…
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February 7, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Chuck Podesta and Christopher Longhurst, MD. In early November, UC Irvine Health and UC San Diego Health began sharing the same instance of Epic, our electronic medical records (EMR) system. This is a first-of-its-kind technology collaboration within UC Health,…
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November 21, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Global health care IT organization HIMSS Analytics has recognized UCLA Health’s achievement of the highest level of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems nationwide….
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November 1, 2017 All Articles 1
By Alison Spencer. When UCLA Health clinicians open a patient chart, they use a system that helps them see the patient as a whole individual, much more than a list of medications, treatment plans, and problems. This is the “patient…
Read more about Providing Personalized Care: UCLA Health’s Patient Story