April 4, 2018
How did Gonorrhea Become a Drug-resistant Superbug?
Scientists led by Rob Nicholas, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine show how the gonorrhea bacterium resists last-resort antibiotic ceftriaxone while maintaining a robust growth rate.
Tag: Press Releases
March 21, 2018
UNC Pediatrics Delivers Investigational Genome Editing Therapy in Clinical Trial for the Rare Hunter Syndrome
First gene therapy performed by Dr. Joseph Muenzer and the UNC Clinical Translational and Research Center.
January 11, 2018
Ensure Remote Access to UNC Health Care Applications, Download and Register DUO Mobile Today
Starting in February 2018, to enhance our information security, UNC Health Care will begin requiring 'Two-Step Verification' using the DUO mobile app for Android or iOS when accessing certain UNC Health Care applications remotely (outside of UNC Health Care locations). This includes off-site access to access Citrix, Epic@UNC, Webmail, etc.
January 9, 2018
Visitor Restrictions Are in Place Across UNC Hospitals for Children Under 12
To ensure the safety of our patients, children ages 11 and younger are prohibited from visiting inpatient areas, inpatient waiting rooms and operative waiting rooms at UNC Hospitals. These restrictions were previously in place for the Newborn Critical Care Center (NCCC), Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (BMTU) at UNC Hospitals.
December 7, 2017
Forbes names Dees as a top breast cancer expert in the U.S.
UNC Lineberger’s Claire Dees, MD, is one of the country’s top 27 breast oncologists, according to Forbes magazine.
November 8, 2017
UNC-Guest Wireless to be discontinued on November 29
ITS plans to permanently remove the wireless access channel known as UNC-Guest from the UNC campus network on Wednesday, November 29. It is being replaced by a more robust and more secure access channel labeled as UNC-Guest-PSK. Read more for information on how to connect to UNC-Guest-PSK.
August 30, 2017
UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System Announce Plan to Form New Organization and Provide Solutions for Healthcare’s Most Pressing Challenges in North Carolina and Beyond
New organization will provide greater access to world-class care for North Carolinians.
August 17, 2017
Providers: Please review the Code Status for all inpatients
If your patient’s Code Status in the patient header is listed as “Prior," please place a new code status order so that an active code order is on the patient’s current encounter. Following Go-Live #6, there is a new code status indicator of “Prior,” which represents that the patient had a previous code order on file that is no longer active for the current encounter.
August 10, 2017
Ambulatory Providers, Staff: Ensure patients checked-in and ‘Reason for Visit’ selected
Pre-charting, which allows ambulatory providers to get a head start on documentation for future visits, is one of the new features of the upgraded Epic@UNC. Providers can ‘pre-chart’ and then, if the patient ‘no-shows’ an appointment, the data is deleted within 30 days.
August 8, 2017
UNC Health Care receives high marks in latest US News & World Report Ratings
U.S News & World Report has released its annual Best Hospitals ratings. Across the state, several UNC Health Care facilities were recognized for clinical excellence.
July 12, 2017
UNC Health Care honored as ‘Most Wired Advanced’
UNC Health Care is one of only 27 systems in the United States to be recognized as a 'Most Wired Advanced’ health system by the American Hospital Association (AHA) for its use of information technology to improve patient care and clinical integration.
July 10, 2017
Ambulatory Providers and Support Staff: Updates to method of entering external results into Health Maintenance
Effective July 22 with Go-Live #6, the Quick Abstraction option (under Quick Navigators) and the HM Results Console (in an Abstract Encounter) are being removed from Epic@UNC in order to promote accurate clinical documentation of Health Maintenance procedures and labs done outside of the UNC Health Care System.