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Project SpotlightHow a newly designed dashboard helps St. Claire provide better care for patients

Approximately 1.5 million Kentuckians, about a third of the commonwealth’s population, are insured through Medicaid.

Health care providers like clinics and hospitals can receive additional payments from the state and federal governments to expand Medicaid services as part of the Medicaid Directed Payment Program.

UK St. Claire Regional Medical Center recently joined the Medicaid Directed Payment Program but needed a way to track measures required to receive additional funds from the program.

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RecognitionUK ITS Annual Report highlights growth, security and collaboration

University of Kentucky Information Technology Services (UK ITS) has released its 2025 Annual Report, highlighting a year marked by expanded partnerships, strengthened cybersecurity and technology improvements that supported teaching, learning, research and patient care across the university and the Commonwealth.

Throughout 2025, UK ITS completed projects that delivered secure and accessible technology further advancing its mission to support education, research and health care.

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UK ITS earns funding through CAPTIVATE KY grant to help fund climate research

UK ITS received $1.8 million sub-award under the CAPTIVATE KY initiative, an effort that will build the state’s first centralized climate data repository.

How a newly designed dashboard helps St. Claire provide better care for patients

To track those required measures, University of Kentucky Information Technology Services (UK ITS) teams built a data dashboard with UK St. Claire. The new dashboard not only allows the hospital to see how it is meeting all the required criteria, but it also shows which health care outcomes need more attention.

Navigation feature in MyChart gives UK HealthCare Good Samaritan Hospital patients step-by-step directions

Finding your way around UK HealthCare Good Samaritan Hospital can be done simply by using the MyChart app—the electronic health record application used to manage appointments, test results and communicate with health care providers.