Andrew Rosenberg, has been named the Chief Information Officer for Michigan Medicine, after serving as interim CIO since April 2016. As the system CIO, Rosenberg will continue to provide overall leadership, management, and guidance for the future strategic vision for IT services. More details on the HITS website.
When Michigan Medicine’s telephone dictation and transcription service provider was impacted by a global malware cyberattack, teams from Health Information Technology & Services (HITS) and Health Information Management (HIM) acted swiftly to ensure the service was disabled, no patient information was compromised, and alternative solutions were provided. “Many staff played a role in the response to the dictation… Read More »
Used in conjunction with books and lectures, sophisticated educational games designed for college classrooms can offer active learning that some instructors say is hard to replicate in a traditional classroom. Still, not every professor who believes well-designed games are valuable in education uses video games in courses. Barry Fishman, a professor in the School of Information and the School… Read More »
A group of security and networking experts across ITS met recently to ensure U-M is prepared for potential distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
An optimal travel planning search engine and a cognitive computing solution for autonomous driving were among the seven technologies that will receive $600,000 from U-M’s Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization Statewide Innovation Hub to continue their advancement into the commercial market. The advanced transportation innovation hub is part of a statewide initiative, in partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s… Read More »
Students and instructors use multiple systems and applications every day that collect vast amounts of data about learners. However, much of the information produced by the current learning data ecosystem is poorly understood and poorly utilized. In a recent article for Educause, Sean DeMonner, executive director of teaching and learning for ITS, and two colleagues from the University of… Read More »
This fall, U-M will test whether an automated text analysis tool can help integrate more writing into large introductory science courses without imposing significant new time constraints. The tool is the latest addition to M-Write, a program run by the Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing. Anne R. Gere, professor of English language and literature who serves as director of the… Read More »
As people spend more time on social media, the lack of true friendship or in-person connections could be harming their health. Robert Pasick—a psychologist, author, and adjunct professor at the Ross School of Business—says the lack of authentic, in-person connections can lead to health problems, or even early death. According to Pasick, social media sites, like Facebook, are giving… Read More »
An expanded data science computing platform from ARC-TS gives all U-M researchers new capabilities to host structured and unstructured databases, and to ingest, store, query, and analyze large datasets.
As IT professionals, we’re often straddling two worlds: the world of the present and the world of the future. The proliferation of big data and maturity of cloud services presents a tremendous opportunity to define a clearer path between them.
Michigan IT’s AR/VR Community of Practice meeting was hosted at UMSI July 12 with a wireless demo courtesy of DreamGate VR.
The ITS Status Page will move to cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services July 27, but remains available to the U-M community during the migration.
The Michigan IT Symposium is an annual event aimed at creating connections between Michigan IT community members while showcasing the innovation occurring across all U-M campuses. This year’s event will take place November 20-21, 2017 at the Michigan League. Mark your calendar! Planning for this year’s event is underway and the call for submissions will go out shortly. If you’d like… Read More »
You put U-M systems and data at risk if you use your UMICH (Level-1) password for non-university services. If you use your UMICH email address and password to establish a personal account, and that information is exposed in a data breach, your UMICH account is at risk. If you have used your UMICH (Level-1) password for non-university services,… Read More »
Michigan Video Abstracts — or MVA — is a new online journal that showcases the work of U-M faculty from the biomedical sciences. Emeritus and senior faculty members reflect on their substantial contributions to medical knowledge and discoveries during the course of their careers through video podcasts. The Education and Training division of Health Information Technology & Services (HITS),… Read More »
Catch up on the latest feature updates and changes to the U-M Box and Google services.
Information Quest and the Office of Budget and Planning have partnered and launched two new dashboards this fiscal year: University Metrics and Michigan Metrics.
Several staff members from the HITS Research Applications & Advanced Computing (RAAC) division participated in the 6th annual Cores Technology & Services Showcase, sponsored by the Biomedical Research Core Facilities (BRCF). The Showcase, which took place June 14 at Palmer Commons, brought together more than 35 U-M units and partner vendors, including HITS, to share the latest technology… Read More »
IT Innovation at Lunch, a professional interest group open to the Michigan IT community, hosts monthly presentations and tours about key topics.
For the third consecutive year, Michigan Medicine has been named one of the nation’s “Most Wired” health systems by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, a publication of the American Hospital Association. The award recognizes hospitals and health systems that excel in using information technology to advance patient care and population health, protect the privacy and security of patient… Read More »