How can you improve asthma care with EHR tools?
By Steven Chan on February 10, 2018
Asthma is one of the most common diagnoses at UCSF Health, and many children often come to the emergency department at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland because of trouble breathing. 
What's a Go-Live? How EHR Upgrades Work
By Steven Chan on December 01, 2017
It takes much more than tapping an "Update App" button to upgrade what is arguably a health system's central nervous system. 
Innovators Transform Hospital Communication Through EHRs, Smartphone Apps
By Steven Chan on September 10, 2017
New smartphone and Internet-based apps, integrated with electronic health record (EHR) systems, have the potential to link patients with care team messages, and shorten the time for doctors to order treatments. Raman Khanna, MD MAS, a UCSF Health Informatics physician lead, along with Robert... 
Hunting down sources of infections: how EHR data can map C. difficle transmission
By Steven Chan on May 21, 2017
Healio reported on a study created by UCSF Health Informatics team members, presented at the Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting, May 10, 2017. The article discussed how the team mapped C. difficile transmission, using UCSF APeX electronic health record data of 86,648 hospitalizations... 
April 2017 update to the Health Leadership Council
By Russ Cucina on April 11, 2017
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