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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…

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…

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. 

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.

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.

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…

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,…

UC San Diego Health Earns High Quality Marks, Saves Medicare Money

September 7, 2021

UC San Diego Health improved care for more than 32,000 Medicare beneficiaries in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial Counties, and saved Medicare close to $7 million by utilizing population health technologies to exceed quality and cost goals in 2020.

Global Innovators Convene at “The Atlantic Meets the Pacific” Forum

September 26, 2013

…conversations about advances in technology, life sciences and health at the third annual “The Atlantic Meets the Pacific” innovation conference, set for Oct. 2 to 4. Presented by UC San Diego in partnership with The Atlantic magazine, the acclaimed program brings together several dozen world-class innovators whose specialties range from…

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