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NEWS: UC Davis Health’s Anesthesia Department elevates patient care with cutting-edge innovations in the February Epic update

March 8, 2024 All Articles,

Anesthesiologist with bag at hospital UC Davis Health Anesthesia

By Kiki Godfrey. In February 2024, UC Davis Health’s Anesthesia Department is undergoing a transformative wave of improvements, including updating Epic, the hospital’s electronic medical records system. Spearheaded by Innovation Technology (at UC Davis, “IT” standards for “INNOVATION Technology vs…
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Systemwide Collaboration Key to UC Davis Health Achieving HIMSS Stage 6

March 30, 2023 All Articles, , , , , ,

Group photo of the team behind the HIMSS

By Kent Anderson and Jason Adams, MD. In November 2022, UC Davis Health achieved the prestigious Stage 6 Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity (AMAM) from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the global authority on advancing…
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Cyber Security and Digital Accessibility – Can They Co-Exist? 

November 29, 2022 All Articles, , , , ,

Photos of panelists of the Accessibility and Security Panel Discussion

By Andrea McColl and Esther Silver. To the uninformed, it might seem that the goals of digital accessibility and cybersecurity would be rivals.  After all, isn’t accessibility about making it easier for people to come in, and cybersecurity about keeping…
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Patient Flow Program at UCD Health: A National Gold Star Winner

February 23, 2022 All Articles, , , , , 0

Hospital workers help a patient

By Kristen Godfrey. UC Davis Health has won gold stars for improving patient flow! How? By creating a program to address everything from reducing the time doctors spend walking from patient to patient, to decreasing the time patients spend waiting…
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Masks in the Making: UCD Health IT Project Manager Coordinates Community COVID Project

July 28, 2021 All Articles, , , , , , , , , , 2

Several multi-colored face masks

By Yvonne Tevis. Colleen Gordon doesn’t sew—but early in the pandemic she co-founded a mask-making project that produced 6,000 home-sewn masks—masks that would go to neighbors, patients, the homeless, and anyone who needed one. An IT project manager for UC…
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UCD Health Creates Dashboard to Consolidate COVID Vaccination Information

May 26, 2021 All Articles, , , , , , , , , 0

By Kristen Godfrey. The vaccination effort is a national emergency. UC Davis Health needed to manage its response in a data-driven way to ensure that we identified and targeted our efforts to those most vulnerable to contracting COVID-19. To achieve…
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Patient Vaccination at UC Davis Health: A Partnership between Health and IT

March 24, 2021 All Articles, , , , , , , 1

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Director, UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities, gets his second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shot. Nurse is Jason Yee.

By Kristen Godfrey. A strong collaboration between IT and Ambulatory Operations led to streamlined tools and quick and efficient patient care for COVID-19 vaccinations at UC Davis Health. “The strong partnership between IT and Ambulatory Operations has been a critical…
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2 Minute Video: Sautter Silver Award for FamilyLink

January 13, 2021 All Articles, , , , , , , 0

A mother holding her newborn baby

UC Davis’s FamilyLink: A NICU Virtual Viewing Program took home a Silver Award at the 2020 Sautter Awards. FamilyLink is a UC Davis Health application that allows authorized family members the opportunity to virtually visit with their hospitalized baby through…
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