About the Center

Internationally recognized, the UC Davis Center for Health and Technology promotes an atmosphere of collaboration and innovation.  Under the long-term leadership of Thomas S. Nesbitt, M.D., M.P.H., the center has become one of the nation’s leading telehealth programs.  It offers a unique group of services that include telemedicine, education, innovation and research.  Nesbitt serves as director of the center in addition to being Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Technologies and Alliances. He founded the university’s original telemedicine program in 1992 as a way to improve quality of care and overcome the geographic health disparities he often saw as a physician specializing in family and community medicine.

Today, the Center for Health and Technology reflects the UC Davis goal of advancing health care by bringing together innovative technologies with the expertise of physicians, educators, information technology and communications specialists, scientific engineers and researchers, who are all working together to create and improve access to high quality patient care.

Featured News

Nesbitt awarded by American Hospital Association for advancing telemedicine

April 13, 2012 (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Thomas Nesbitt, Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Technologies and Alliances, and director, Center for Health and Technology, has received the Justin Ford Kimball Innovators Award from the American Hospital Association. Nesbitt also is a professor of family and community medicine.

UC Davis Children's Hospital uses telehealth to provide critical care to children rural hospitals

February 2012 — HRSA's Health IT Grantee Spotlight — The Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Office of Health Information Technology and Quality is pleased to highlight the great work of the University of California, Davis Children's Hospital (UCDCH) for its efforts in the advancement of telemedicine.

UC Davis dermatologists find telemedicine effective for patient care 

January 17, 2012 (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — UC Davis Health System dermatologists, using videoconferencing technology known as telemedicine, have determined that live interactive consultations can improve clinical outcomes for patients because they usually involve beneficial changes in medical diagnosis and disease management that otherwise might not occur.

New teleaudiology program to improve follow-up for newborns who do not pass hearing screening 

Program hopes to facilitate follow-up for infants needing diagnostic audiology evaluations

December 21, 2011 (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Babies who do not pass newborn hearing screening tests require immediate diagnosis and intervention, but that can be a challenge for families living in the vast expanse of rural Northern California, where a dearth of pediatric hearing specialists, geographic isolation and the topography all conspire to create obstacles.

UC Davis teledermatology program improves diagnosis, outcomes

July 1, 2011 - Dermatology Times — A teledermatology program based at the University of California, Davis, frequently alters referring physicians' diagnoses and management plans, thereby improving patient outcomes, its director says.

Extending health to the underserved

A diabetic for 40 years, Alice Thompson was injecting nearly 300 units of insulin per day – sometimes more.

4 Ways to Accelerate ED Triage, Boost Revenue

Pediatric emergency and critical care physicians at UC Davis Children's Hospital use videoconferencing with patients and physicians and 10 EDs in rural and underserved areas of Northern California. 

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