Informatics

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Reducing the Need for Non-Preventive Healthcare Utilization in the First Month of Life

Originally posted to the UC CIO blog here

UC San Francisco (UCSF) has funded five new projects that use the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform to improve care. The projects will utilize the EMR to deliver evidence-based interventions at the point of care to improve important healthcare indicators, such as patient outcomes, quality, p

Note: CTSI provided support for this study.

An innovative virtual glucose management service (vGMS) for hospitalized patients with diabetes is highly effective at maintaining appropriate glucose levels, according to a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco.

Patient-level data are the lifeblood of clinical research, and their value and benefit can be maximized if they are responsibly, routinely and easily shared.

REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a HIPAA-compliant, secure web application for building and managing online surveys and data collection instruments, provided without charge to the UCSF community and its collaborators.

Two proposals selected by campus collaborative to help inform UCSF’s transformation into a Learning Healthcare System

Ida Sim, MD, PhD, co-director of CTSI's Informatics and Research Innovation (IRI) program, presents 3rd Cochrane Lecture at the Cochrane Colloquium in Vienna, Austria.

Research systems and services to help the UCSF research community obtain, store, share, and analyze the patient data sets needed for research studies.