Recently, University of Kentucky Information Technology Services (UK ITS), in partnership with UKPD, completed a major upgrade of the university’s E911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) system. This system, crucial to emergency response operations across campus, comprises critical infrastructure that allows UKPD to receive and manage responses to 911 calls.
Health Connect now handles the data traffic in and out of Epic, UK HealthCare’s EHR. The platform ensures that lab results, radiology images, registration updates and other patient data move swiftly and securely to the right places.
Not only does Dragon Copilot assist with ever-increasing administrative workloads in healthcare, but the AI tool has also given doctors and APPs more time to have meaningful conversations with their patients without a computer in between.
After several years of planning and months of work that stretched into late nights, weekends and across teams, UK ITS has successfully completed migration of UK HealthCare’s electronic health record to the cloud. Epic, UK HealthCare’s electronic health record system, now runs from Microsoft Azure — Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.
This preview of the new myUK portal invites employees with active linkblue accounts to get early access to functions, including requesting and approving time off and enrolling in benefits, inside a newly designed portal.
Over the past year, University of Kentucky Information Technology Services (UK ITS) partnered with Eastern State Hospital leadership to implement several, multi-phased network upgrades that replaced wireless access points (APs), switches and firewalls with minimal service disruptions for hospital staff and patients. The goal of the upgrades — to make the network faster, more reliable and easier to manage and support.
