July 21, 2016
ISD is leading a project to develop a ‘Unified Communications Platform’ across UNC Health Care with the goal of allowing individual providers and groups to communicate with each other more efficiently and securely through voice calling and secure texting. Vocera is the vendor selected for this project.
July 21, 2016
Beginning Wednesday July 27, 2016, employees and providers will begin to see a banner notification in Epic@UNC identifying ‘Value Care’ patients that UNC Health Care has contracts to manage the quality and cost of care for as part of our growing Population Health efforts.
July 14, 2016
ADMIN 0124, formerly known as "Patient Alias," is now known as "Patient Pseudonym." It can be found by searching either "alias" or "pseudonym" in the Policy Search Term box. The terminology was changed to be consistent with Epic@UNC.
July 7, 2016
The Professional Development Council encourages you to use standard formatting when listing credentials or creating email signatures as an important way to represent ourselves professionally.
July 7, 2016
As Human Resources transitions to support all owned UNC Health Care entities, the UNC Medical Center Employee Recreation department closed effective July 1, 2016. Most services offered through Employee Recreation will continue to be available to employees after July through the Hospitals and University benefits.
July 7, 2016
UNC Health Care is adopting a system Employee Travel and Reimbursement Policy for owned entities (UNC Medical Center, UNC REX, High Point Regional, Caldwell Memorial, UNC Physicians Network) effective July 1. Managed entities may elect to adopt the policy.
July 7, 2016
Last year Mayor Tom Stevens shared his thoughts about the benefits UNC Health Care's new Hillsborough Hospital would bring to the greater Hillsborough community. One year later he shares how the hospital has already proven to be a great asset to the community.
July 6, 2016
Beginning Tuesday, July 12, if Real Time Eligibility (RTE) returns a status of Plan Mismatch on an existing coverage record on the patient's registration, the current coverage must be terminated. Moving forward, an RTE status of Plan Mismatch on existing coverage will not allow the patient to be checked-in; a corrected coverage must first be entered and verified.
June 30, 2016
Two Executive Directors have been named to lead key areas—Analytical Solutions and Data Governance—of the recently established Enterprise Analytics and Data Sciences (EADS) organization.
June 23, 2016
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Bob Gianforcaro has accepted the new role of Executive Medical Director for Population Health for UNC Health Care effective July 1, 2016.
June 15, 2016
After concluding a national search, we are pleased to announce that Scott W. Savage, PharmD, MS, has accepted the position of Director of Pharmacy for UNC Hospitals and Clinics.
May 18, 2016
Jacqueline Harden, MHA, MBA, BSN, RN, NE-BC, has been promoted to Associate Chief Nursing Officer/AVP of UNC Hospitals. Please read the following message about the appointment from Catherine Madigan, DNP, RN, Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President of UNC Hospitals.