“No-show” is a common term in healthcare that is used to describe patients who fail to attend their scheduled appointment. From a system perspective, these ‘no-shows’ are of particular interest as they incur financial losses to hospitals and clinics. Schedulers are therefore encouraged to overbook patients in order to account for potentially lost revenue.

Leveraging momentum from the strategic plans of UCSF and UCSF Health, the UCSF Digital Collaborative  will bring together and anchor the digital community at UCSF.  The Digital Collaborative  will be both a virtual network markedly enhancing the ability of UCSF’s own community and partners to access UCSF’s digital information, activities, and tools, as well as a physical space – one that colocates many of the key digital organizations on campus. 

Recent applications of innovative mobile health (mHealth) tools, such as text messaging (SMS), hold promise for increasing Evidence-Based Intervention (EBI) effectiveness.

Earlier this year, UCSF purchased a subscription to Dimensions – a powerful research analytics and competitive intelligence tool developed by Digital Science. Dimensions is a dynamic, easy-to-use platform that offers a better, faster way to discover, understand and analyze the global research landscape. Users can explore the connections between different researchers and institutions and access scholarly data, such as funded grants, publications, clinical trials, patents and policy documents that they have contributed to the academic sphere.

What is the effect of delays in radiology procedures on length of stay (LOS) in the hospital? Did the integration of patient records from outside organizations into Apex reduce number diagnostic tests ordered in the emergency department? What is the impact of delaying antibiotics on mortality in patients with sepsis?

Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute is leading the building of a research data platform, called Information Commons. Along with software tools and data models this forms an infrastructure serving the UCSF research community with many different types of de-identified clinical data. Currently available/planned data are electronic health records, images, clinical notes, omics and waveforms.

UCSF’s digital signage network will have grown from 14 signs at the Mission Bay Conference Center in 2014 to over 200 signs across multiple campus locations by 2020. UCSF’s digital signage is managed through a robust network that connects the campus community with essential information daily. Most digital signs are department-managed and engage technology to deliver objectives related to customer experience. Discover what is involved to retrofit your department space with commercial-grade digital signage.

This session is about a blind user’s experience with email. We offer beginner tips to produce accessible emails to create a better connection with your audience.

Learn how simple things such as meaningful subject lines and accessible content can build trust with your audience and ensure your message is heard.

UCSF Profiles is used by 1 million people every year, and is one of the primary gateways for the public to connect to UCSF and learn about UCSF researchers. UCSF Profiles is more than a list of publications. It includes grants, clinical trials, education, as well as sections for specialized categories like global health experience and faculty mentoring interests. And it also features a rich open API, which powers dozens of UCSF websites and software applications.

In this session, we’ll show you how to: