By Cecile Purtetz and Wendy Tobias. UCSF recognizes October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). NDEAM celebrates the valuable contributions of disabled people in our workplaces, communities, and healthcare workforce while acknowledging systemic employment barriers. Wendy Tobias, Chief Accessibility…
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September 6, 2023 All Articles
By Brendon Phuong and Laurel Skurko. Robert Krumm, winner of the UC Tech Awards program golden award for design and UCSF database developer, recently shared with the UC IT Blog team his experience in developing code for hospital systems, and…
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September 6, 2023 All Articles
This year, Robert Krumm, database developer, UCSF, won the UC Tech Design golden award, thanks to his work with the Urology Oncology Research Database and Biobank Project Teams. Learn more about his work with UCSF urology research teams, including data…
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By Albert Lee. Summer 2023 is your chance to learn R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics. The UCSF Data Science Initiative’s (DSI) SummeR of LeaRning series is focuses on R-based data science. The virtual lunch-time workshops are designed…
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Each year, the third Thursday of May marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). This May, the UC Tech Conference planning team announced their partnership with the UC Electronic Accessibility Committee in shaping content for the conference. This resulted in…
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By Jill Wolters, Adriane Guerreiro, Michael Marmon and Leevegar Kim. UCSF developed a new way of educating the community so that they could address an important accessibility challenge: making PDF documents readable by the site readers used by those with…
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Learn about the exciting new health care technology behind the winning project of the 2022 Larry L. Sautter Innovation in IT Golden Award, “The De-identifying Clinical Notes at Scale Project (UCSF).” The UC IT blog team is grateful to…
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Learn about the winning project of the 2022 Yvonne Tevis UC Collaboration Golden Award, “Connecting Patients & Researchers with UC Clinical Trials,” thanks to an inquisitive project team and ChatGPT. The UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Research Technology…
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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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November 22, 2022 All Articles
By Syliva Condro. November is Native American Heritage Month. Enjoy a collection of UC campus land acknowledgments to learn more about the historical culture and the contemporary presence of indigenous people in our area. Take a moment to review Read more about Celebrating Native American Heritage Month via Campus Land Acknowledgements