2021: News Archive

ADVISORY: Update Drupal to address cross-site scripting vulnerability

05/27/2021

The information below was sent to U-M IT groups on May 27, 2021. It is intended for U-M IT staff who are responsible for university websites that use the Drupal content management system.

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All Together Now: Microsoft 365 Coming to Michigan Medicine!

05/26/2021

The Michigan Medicine community will soon be able to begin exploring the benefits of Microsoft 365 (M365), a product suite that brings together many of Microsoft’s most popular tools – in a new, better, and more powerful way.

Phoning it in: New devices improve patient safety, care at Michigan Medicine

05/17/2021

Multiple HITS teams are working together to develop and deploy Unified Clinical Communications (UCC) – an effort to streamline, simplify, and improve communications in inpatient care areas – by providing a unified solution for secure text, voice calling, and closed-looped alarms and alerts.

 

ADVISORY: Update Drupal to address API vulnerability

04/26/2021

The information below was sent to U-M IT groups on April 23, 2021. It is intended for U-M IT staff who are responsible for university websites that use the Drupal content management system.

Video Conference Tool BlueJeans to be Retired on Saturday, May 1

04/26/2021

Please switch to another video conferencing tool and save any BlueJeans recordings you wish to keep.

Spring MiChart upgrade a success!

04/19/2021

The latest system upgrade for MiChart, Michigan Medicine's electronic health record, was successfully completed at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 18.  

MiChart upgrade coming this Sunday, April 18

04/15/2021

This Sunday, April 18, is the next upgrade for MiChart, the electronic health system for Michigan Medicine. 

NOTICE: IRS warns of tax-refund phishing targeting universities

03/31/2021

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning of an ongoing IRS-impersonation scam that appears to primarily target educational institutions. Scammers are sending phishing emails to students, faculty, staff and others who have email addresses ending in .edu.

ADVISORY: Uptick in ransomware targeting higher ed

03/25/2021

This information was sent to U-M IT staff groups via email on March 25, 2021.

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Visit the Michigan Medicine Help Center as your first stop for IT support

03/18/2021

HITS knows that making IT work wherever you work is more important than ever. With help requests at record levels, we've been working hard to improve service and reduce wait times. Here are some tips to help you get the help you need – as quickly and easily as possible:

Spring MiChart system upgrade coming April 18: Training materials available now

03/17/2021

Training materials for the Spring upgrade to Michigan Medicine’s Electronic Health Record are now available.

Edge Chromium Browser Being Added as Option on CoreImage Windows Computers

03/08/2021

Now through March 23, HITS will begin installing Microsoft’s Edge Chromium web browser on CoreImage Windows computers.

HITS launching the Academic IT Core on March 1

02/23/2021

To be more responsive to the unique needs of researchers, HITS is launching the Academic IT Core.   

ALERT! Firewall change restricting external email delivery

02/03/2021

This information was sent to HITS staff via email February 3, 2021.  It is intended for HITS staff who are responsible for applications or servers sending external email which have NOT been configured with a HITS email relay server.

ALERT: Update for buffer overflow in sudo

01/27/2021

This information was sent to U-M IT staff groups via email January 27, 2021. It is intended for U-M IT staff who are responsible for university computers and servers running Unix-like operating systems that include the sudo utility.

Spring MiChart system upgrade coming April 18

01/26/2021

The next MiChart upgrade is planned for Sunday, April 18. This will be the first planned upgrade for 2021 with a goal to reduce downtime duration and impact to the organization.

University selects Dell as a strategic supplier of computer hardware

01/14/2021

Michigan Medicine recently joined partners from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses to sign a multi-year contract with Dell Technologies – which as of January 18 will become a strategic supplier of computer hardware to the university.

Fluency Direct to replace Dragon and Phone Transcription this month

01/06/2021

Beginning this month, Michigan Medicine will launch a speech recognition technology called Fluency Direct. Michigan Medicine is retiring Dragon services effective Feb. 3 and Phone Transcription services effective Feb. 15.

 

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