January 12, 2016 All Articles 0
Posted by Brian Tharp, program manager, UCOP. UCOP moved its mainframe work load over four weekends between September 5 and October 11, 2015, with 70% of the applications moving on October 11. The movements were practically flawless, due to the…
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January 7, 2016 All Articles 0
UC NeXt is a platform to encourage collaboration and ideation among the UC IT community. The Beta version was launched at UCCSC 2015. In this video, UCOP student intern, Lexi Rivetti, interviewed two of the technologists behind UC NeXt,…
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December 16, 2015 All Articles 0
Posted by Annelie Rugg, Humanities CIO, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities. Data is a hot topic, not just in digital humanities, but throughout academia, as well as in medicine, commerce, public policy, etc. ‘Big data’, ‘deep data’, ‘metadata’, ‘data visualization’…
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December 10, 2015 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Donna Yamasaki and her applications team at UCOP make sure their UCOP business partners can successfully use technology to manage systemwide online web services and benefit systems. “We support applications including At…
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December 8, 2015 All Articles 0
Posted by Ghanya Thomas, ITS executive assistant, UCOP. In the spirit of President Napolitano’s UC Oakland Partnership, Information Technology Services at UCOP provided support for the 2nd Annual David E. Glover Legacy Awards. The David E. Glover Center…
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December 3, 2015 All Articles 0
UC made a splash at Dreamforce, the biggest software conference of the year. From September 15 – 18, the UC IT Blog team sat in on keynotes featuring Dr. Laura Esserman MD (UCSF), Dr. Atul Butte MD (UCSF), Dr. David…
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November 24, 2015 All Articles 0
Healthcare in the United States continues to undergo a tremendous transformation, including changes in the way we treat patients, the way reimbursement works, and the consumerization of healthcare through the use of digital technology. At UC – where part of…
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November 23, 2015 All Articles 0
In this webinar, you will learn why processes matter, how understanding them helps in systems and functional improvement, and when to consider embarking on the journey to capture your team’s processes and workflows. You will also learn how to get…
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November 19, 2015 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. “Information is the basis of healthcare,” said Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado, chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and associate dean for Informatics and Technology at UCSD. In her work, she…
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November 17, 2015 All Articles 0
Posted by Eric Kessell, CHQI Consultant, UCOP. Consumers have become increasingly comfortable interacting with healthcare providers through electronic technology. “Telehealth” services, provided by phone, computer, mobile device, or other electronic methods, offer new ways to deliver care in alignment with…
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