In an effort to better meet the mental health needs of Bay Area veterans, a new psychiatric/mental health NP residency creates opportunities for building important alliances between the San Francisco VA Health Care System and UC San Francisco School of Nursing.
Mobile applications promise to help people take better care of their health. UCSF’s Linda Park is looking at ways to help patients with heart disease manage their condition and adhere to important medication therapy.
In the first in a series of posts on bioethical issues in health care, Marsha Michie of the UCSF Bioethics team, explores some of the concerns raised by the emergence of noninvasive prenatal testing.
With alarm fatigue causing concerns across the country, an interdisciplinary research team races to create a super alarm that would make optimal use of the abundance of clinical data available today.
Alarm safety is a significant problem with no easy solutions. UCSF Medical Center and UCSF San Francisco School of Nursing are approaching it as a team effort.
Yoshimi Fukuoka and her colleagues explore whether combining behavior science, big data, advanced analytics and mHealth applications can help people achieve the type of behavior change that can prevent or ease the burden of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic illnesses.
Mobile diet and exercise apps are all the rage. Nurse scientist Yoshimi Fukuoka offers one model for shaping these devices so they help individuals make lasting lifestyle changes for healthier lives.
UCSF’s Office of Population Health and Accountable Care is leading a series of experiments to help UCSF Health adapt to a period of truly disruptive health care change.
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