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From Technology to Home Care, Researchers Plan for "Silver Tsunami"
Faculty from UCSF School of Nursing are leading research projects that examine the shortage of long-term care workers and other senior care issues.
Measuring Newborns’ Weight Loss With Electronic Health Records to Give Babies a Healthy Start
A new study is using electronic health records to guide management of newborn weight loss.
Can Video Games Improve the Health of Older Adults with Schizophrenia?
Video games can offer a safe and easy way for a sedentary population to get started with exercise.
User-Friendly Tools Help Older Adults Guide Future Medical Care
A user-friendly website on advance care planning, as well as easy-to-read advance directives, can be highly effective in empowering older adults to plan for their future medical care.
UCSF to Use Dignity Health Digital Platform to Increase Health Access
Dignity Health and UCSF Health are collaborating to develop a state-of-the-art digital engagement platform that will provide information and access to patients when and where they need it.
Using Facebook to Help Young Adults Quit Smoking
Smoking cessation intervention for young adults conducted on Facebook found smokers are 2.5 times more likely to quit with the Facebook-based treatment than if they were referred to an online program.
Computers Equal Radiologists in Assessing Breast Density and Associated Breast Cancer Risk
Automated breast-density evaluation was just as accurate in predicting women’s risk of breast cancer, found and not found by mammography, as subjective evaluation done by radiologists.
Expert Review Will Strengthen Emerging Digital Technologies
In the absence of rigorous preclinical testing from the FDA, health systems should carefully scrutinize digital tools that interact with electronic health records to recommend patient diagnoses or therapies.
AI is Quicker, More Effective Than Humans in Analyzing Heart Scans
A type of AI known as advanced machine learning can classify essential views from heart ultrasound tests faster, more accurately and with less data than board-certified echocardiographers.
