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School of Medicine IT is working with Microsoft to provide extended support for Windows 10 through October 2027–28 to ensure a smooth and flexible transition for all departments.

The UNC School of Medicine IT partnered with the Office of Medical Education Curriculum Support team to advise on best practices for migrating course materials for the Undergraduate Medical Foundation Phase from Sakai to Canvas. While this transition is applicable to all courses, the MD Degree program uniquely uses the LMS...

In support of the Forward Together Strategy, the UNC School of Medicine IT implemented the Robin desk reservation platform to enable a collaborative work environment for faculty and staff. The Robin platform allows hybrid employees to find and reserve shared workspaces on their mobile app and computer. Also outfitted ~100...

The UNC School of Medicine IT partnered with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Clinical Research Support Office, and LCCC to perform a system validation of Florence, an eBinder solution for clinical trials, and DocuSign, an eConsent platform for FDA-regulated studies. This effort resulted in the quality assurance...

A Patient’s Point of View UNC SOM-IT worked with the UNC Health Trauma team to produce a patient’s point of view simulation during trauma resuscitation aimed at developing empathy and understanding to improve patient-centered care. Experience the patient’s perspective in 360°, make impactful communications decisions, and learn more about patient...

Empathy in Leadership UNC SOM-IT is working with the Department of Healthcare Engineering + Radiology to help decision makers explore and make sense of the impacts and complex realities surrounding a simulated adverse event.

UNC SOM IT and HR have teamed up to create this virtual tour that helps orient new employees! The tour features 360 scenes from around campus, interactive green screen ambassadors to interact with, and scavenger hunt activites! Check It Out!

This was a cross-tower effort to implement the one45 registration lottery and special permissions functionality and to also internally develop the required drop/add logic to supplement the registration process.

UNC School of Medicine IT worked with UNC Research to contract with a validation expert to perform a system validation of DocuSign. Validation was necessary to be 21 CFR Part 11 compliant, a requirement to submit study findings for FDA approval. The process to validate DocuSign required the documentation of...

The purpose of this security risk analysis was to re-evaluate the effectiveness of the security controls for UNC-CH School of Medicine systems that contain both sensitive and e-PHI data and recommend corrective actions to reduce the overall risk. The HIPAA Security Rule “Risk Analysis” standard § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) requires a periodic...