March 31, 2026 All Articles, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity & Digital Risk
Protecting UCLA Health information starts with understanding what kind of data we work with and how it should be handled. To make this easier, UCLA Health IT created a short Data Classification video with clear, practical…
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October 6, 2025 All Articles, People & Culture
UC Tech community members from across the system put their cloud skills to the test in an AWS Game Day Challenge — tackling real-world engineering puzzles, reducing costs for a fictional company, and strengthening collaboration along the way.
August 14, 2025 All Articles, Projects & Initiatives
When Benyam Alemu Sood joined the mobile team at UC San Diego Health in 2020, the MyUCSDHealth app was facing major challenges. The crash rate stood at 42%, the user interface was not accessible for older or disabled patients, and…
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July 24, 2025 All Articles, People & Culture, Projects & Initiatives
UCLA Health’s Population Risk Model predicts which primary care patients are at the highest risk of preventable admissions or Emergency Department visits. This data is used by the Proactive Care Team to provide support and care for the patients….
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By Wendy Rager and Judi Baker. Most of us are familiar with phishing – a type of social engineering scam where a bad actor sends fraudulent communication that appears to come from a legitimate source. The goal of the attack…
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January 9, 2024 All Articles, People & Culture, Projects & Initiatives
In 2023, Laona LeBeouf, Employee Experience lead, UCLA Health IT, was a nominee for the UC Tech 2023 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Award based on her work supporting DEI education at UCLA Health IT. Learn more about her…
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November 29, 2022 All Articles
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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By Lindsay Brooker. When the pandemic took the medical community by surprise in early 2020, the UCLA Health system quickly pivoted to moving as many patients as possible into virtual settings. Almost overnight, many primary care check-ins, surgical follow-ups, and…
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December 16, 2020 All Articles 0
By Bill Kisliuk. While the capability to diagnose cancer and heart problems has advanced by giant steps in recent years, methods to detect depression have stubbornly stayed the same for more than a century: Observe patients, and ask them how…
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October 14, 2020 All Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. Five years ago, this publication told you about DEARhealth, a health care platform from UCLA that grew into a business. A lot has happened in the past five years: The digital health company, founded by Drs….
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