Technical Resources
CTSC Informatics maintains and supports the following equipment and educational resources, which are available for use by investigators at the CTSC facility:
Equipment
- Fujitsu High Speed Bulk Scanner
- Enables researchers to perform paper to electronic conversion
- Optical Character Recognition software to convert scanned text to editable documents ·
- Tablet PC
- Experimental development of applications to aid clinical data collection
- Tandberg Video Conferencing Unit
- High Performance Workstation for Researchers with the following software available:
- Dragon Naturally Speaking Voice Recognition with high quality headset
- Camtasia video screen capture
- SAS statistical
- SPSS statistical
- Adobe Premiere Pro video editing
- Adobe Photoshop photo editing
- Adobe Acrobat document publishing
- EndNote Bibliographic Management
- Microsoft FrontPage Web page publishing
- MacroMedia DreamWeaver Web page publishing
- OmniPage Pro optical character recognition (OCR)
Educational resources
- DVD viewing and CD listening station for recorded lectures and courses
- Regularly scheduled technology fair for investigators
Please contact Deb Kronenberg (deb.kronenberg@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu) at (916) 703-9121 for details on equipment availability and use.
Technical support
The UC Davis Medical Center Information Systems (IS) Department provides hardware and software support for PCs and printers at CRISP. Contact the IS Help Desk at (916) 734-HELP.

