The University of California Lung Cancer Consortium and AstraZeneca announced a five-year partnership to expand the Healthy Lungs California initiative, which is aimed at increasing early lung cancer detection and reducing deaths from the disease.
At UC Health, nurses are an integral part of the programs and initiatives that examine how AI can be integrated into the health care landscape to improve both their professional roles and the experiences of their patients. Nurses across the UC system sit on review and advisory committees that evaluate…
Match Day, the annual national event when medical students learn their residency assignments, was celebrated in numerous ceremonies across the six UC schools of medicine. Nearly 70% of the future doctors graduating from UC schools of medicine will move on to train in California, where they’ll provide health care services…
Clinical trials are a critical example of how UC campuses with Clinical and Translational Science Institutes (CTSIs) and centers are connecting laboratory discoveries to real-world medical applications. Located at UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC San Diego, and UCSF, each UC CTSI supports clinical and translational research that has resulted…
UC Health teams are working to make chronic disease management easier for patients. The Diabetes Care Management Initiative, led by UC Population Health, helps to integrate testing protocols, like blood glucose testing and eye examinations, into regular primary care visits. By including these screenings in routine primary care clinic visits…
In commemoration of UC PRIME’s 20th anniversary, we look back at the successful model of medication education through the experiences of PRIME alums and highlight some of the aspects of the program that make UC PRIME so unique.
The University of California’s academic health centers have again been honored for their commitment to excellence in quality of inpatient and outpatient care. Vizient, Inc., a health care performance improvement company, annually benchmarks the performance of hospitals and health systems in its national quality and accountability study.
The UC Health Data Warehouse, managed by the UC Health Center for Data-driven Insights and Innovation (CDI2), contains electronic health data on more than 9 million patients who received care at a UC facility since 2012. In 2024, UC research teams across the UC health system leveraged the data resource…
UC academic health centers deliver high-quality, compassionate, comprehensive maternal care throughout the pregnancy journey—from prenatal care to postpartum support and everything in between.
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