High-Tech Surgical Suites Let Doctors Scan Patients without Either Leaving the Operating Room
November 28, 2018
High-tech surgical suites allow doctors to scan patients without either leaving the operating room.
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UC San Diego Health Prioritizes Patient Experience with iPad and Apple TV
December 6, 2016
Patients at the newly opened Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health can be in command of their own experience by controlling room temperature, lighting, accessing their personal medical information, details on their patient care team and entertainment options all from their beds.
Lights, iPads, Action!
January 12, 2017
…the newly opened Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health is equipped with Apple TV and an iPad, allowing patients like Joseph Cussen to control their televisions, lights and other room features. Lights, iPads, Action! Technology Empowers Patients to Feel in Control at Newly Opened Jacobs Medical Center Admiring…
UC San Diego Engineer Talks Tech with Congressional Staff in Washington, D.C.
May 19, 2017
UC San Diego electrical engineering professor Patrick Mercier met with staff members working for representatives for San Diego County and for California Senator Dianne Feinstein at an event on Capitol Hill, where he showcased wearable technologies that have the potential to revolutionize access to health care.
Soft, Stretchy Electrode Simulates Touch Sensations Using Electrical Signals
June 28, 2024
…skin. This device represents a step towards creating haptic technologies that can reproduce a more varied and realistic range of touch sensations for applications such as virtual reality, medical prosthetics and wearable technology.
Students Developing Low-Cost Device for Monitoring HIV Levels in Blood Win National Competition
August 1, 2017
…recently created called Worldcare Technologies. Monitoring HIV levels in the blood is critical for identifying when the virus is becoming resistant to a particular therapy, which signals that the therapy probably needs to be modified. If a therapy is working as it should, the viral load remains low. If the…
Bioengineer Studying How the Brain Controls Movement
April 2, 2014
…how we move. The goal is to develop new technologies to help patients with Parkinson’s disease and other debilitating medical conditions navigate the world on their own. Their research is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Emerging Frontiers of Research and Innovation program.
How 3D Printing Could One Day Save Lives
March 2, 2017
…used different 3D printing technologies to create artificial blood vessels. But existing technologies are slow, costly and mainly produce simple structures, such as a single blood vessel — a tube, basically. These blood vessels also are not capable of integrating with the body’s own vascular system. “Almost all tissues and…
NIH Grant Awards $2 Million for Research into Privacy and Personal Health Information
October 22, 2015
The National Human Genome Research Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded $2 million to a UC San Diego team led by Dr. Cinnamon Bloss to research individual conceptions of privacy related to emerging health big data technologies.
Spotlight on Founders’ Celebration Speakers
October 31, 2011
…Chair in Communications and Technology Policy. He will speak at the Founders’ Symposium between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. on Nov. 17 at the Medical Education and Telemedicine Learning Building. His lecture will focus on the proposal to establish the Impact Design and Evaluation Laboratories (IDEL) to integrate economics, political science,…
