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Meet UC San Diego Health’s CIO Joshua Glandorf

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By Melinda Battenberg. Working in healthcare information technology for over 20 years has given UC San Diego Health Chief Information Officer (CIO) Joshua Glandorf the strong technical background needed to lead an innovative, forward-thinking health system. To Glandorf, however, the technical…
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Register for Nov. 4 Webinar—CA Notify: One Year Later

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Join a conversation on November 4, 2021, 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. with public health experts, clinicians, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to discuss lessons learned from California over the past year and the future possibilities for deploying exposure notification systems…
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Student Medical Records at UC San Diego Make Epic Change and a California First

UC San Diego Student Health and Well-Being offers campus-based health services to enrolled students with an annual volume of approximately 85,000 visits. Photo credit: UC San Diego Publications

By J. Jeffery Reeves, Stacie San Miguel, Reina Juarez, Joseph Behymer, Kevin M. Ramotar, and Patricia Maysent. Across the nation, top universities offer comprehensive health services to more than 20 million students in the form of primary, urgent and mental…
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COVID Notify System Goes Statewide

California COVID Notify App

By Melinda Battenberg. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on December 7, 2020, that CA Notify, the COVID exposure notification system championed by UC San Diego Health, will be available statewide on December 10. The system will make available to all California residents an important tool for slowing the spread of COVID-19.   Now,…
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Watch the UC IT Town Hall Online

UC IT Town Hall, October 2020

The UC IT Town Hall was held October 19, 2020. Over 400 attendees joined remotely from around the UC system. Mark Cianca, Interim UC CIO, opened the session to welcome attendees. Eugene Whitlock, UC Berkeley chief people and culture…
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UCSD and UCSF Pilot Smartphone Technology to Help Limit Spread of COVID-19

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Two University of California campuses are piloting the use of a smartphone technology to notify users if they have had a high-risk COVID-19 exposure that may result in infection. Importantly, privacy and security are central to the design of the…
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COVID-19 Grand Rounds at UC San Diego Health

UC San Diego Health COVID-19 Virtual Grand Rounds

Do you wish you could get COVID-19 information directly from the experts? Get help sorting fact from fiction? You’re in luck! Physicians at UC San Diego Health have launched the COVID-19 Grand Rounds Series, a six-part, live video symposium…
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AI Enables Rapid COVID-19 Lung Imaging Analysis at UCSD Health

Chest X-rays from a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia, original x-ray (left) and AI-for-pneumonia result (right). Patient has a pacemaker device and an enlarged heart, which indicates that the AI algorithm is powerful enough to work even when the patient has underlying health issues.

By Heather Buschman, PhD. For most patients who have died of COVID-19, the pandemic disease caused by a novel coronavirus, the ultimate cause of death was pneumonia, a condition in which inflammation and fluid buildup make it difficult to breathe….
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Video: UC Health IT Responds Now to COVID-19

Webinar: UC Health IT Responds Now to COVID-19

Two UC medical doctors and health CIOs recently hosted a webinar on UC Health IT innovations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The presenters were: Dr. Christopher Longhurst, CIO and associate CMO, UC San Diego Health, and clinical professor of…
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Webinar – UC Health IT Responds Now to COVID-19

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With the COVID-19 pandemic creating unprecedented demands on UC Health, the IT teams are responding with innovation and long hours to support UC health care professionals, hospitals, and clinics during this crisis. Join a special webinar, April 9, 2020, noon…
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