2022: News Archive

Updated Michigan Medicine login screen design coming March 1

02/28/2022

Health Information Technology and Services (HITS) is rolling out design updates to unify the look of the login screens used across Michigan Medicine applications. 

Updates to Michigan Medicine Windows computing environment – happening now through early April

02/28/2022

HITS will soon update many Michigan Medicine computers to align available tools, improve functionality, and provide a more consistent user experience across our Windows computing environment – primarily impacting Standard and Flex mode DESKTOPS, and Kiosk devices.

Michigan Medicine partnering with Cornerstone on new Talent Management platform, starting with MLearning replacement

02/22/2022

Michigan Medicine Human Resources, Organizational Learning and Health Information Technology and Services (HITS) are partnering with Cornerstone to develop and deliver a comprehensive, online Talent Management platform to serve all of Michigan Medicine, including faculty, staff and learners from U-M Health, the medical school and shared services.

Action required to continue accessing applications which use Michigan Medicine SAML/SSO Identity Provider Service before March 4, 2022

02/21/2022

This message is intended for HITS staff whose applications use the Michigan Medicine SAML/SSO Identity Provider service (weblogin.med.umich.edu).

 

The production certificate for the Michigan Medicine Web SSO (SAML) / Access Manager / Web login authentication service will expire on Friday, March 4, 2022, and must be replaced before then or logins to the application will fail.

A critical vulnerability in all versions of Samba prior to 4.13.17 has been discovered

02/02/2022

This message is intended for U-M IT staff who are responsible for university Linux servers that run smbd.

Spring MiChart system upgrade coming April 24

02/01/2022

The next MiChart upgrade is planned for Sunday, April 24.

This will be the first planned upgrade for 2022 with a goal to introduce new features, limit impact to the organization and maintain regulatory requirements. 

 

ALERT: Apply patches to Linux systems with policykit package

01/26/2022

This message was sent to U-M IT groups on January 26, 2022. It is intended for U-M IT staff who are responsible for university servers running Linux systems with Polkit's pkexec component installed.

Microsoft Teams

Reminder: Microsoft Teams now available for Michigan Medicine

01/20/2022

The collaborative workspace application will replace Skype for Business 

Help Me Now

Help Me Now locations to reopen

01/10/2022

Health Information Technology & Services (HITS) will reopen all three Help Me Now locations this week, with modified hours, limited staffing and necessary COVID-19 safety precautions. 

ADVISORY: Update WordPress to address security vulnerabilities

01/10/2022

The information below was sent to U-M IT groups on January 10, 2022. It is intended for U-M IT staff who are responsible for university websites that use WordPress.

Improved image sharing to improve care at Michigan Medicine

01/06/2022

Later this month, Michigan Medicine will implement Clinical Enterprise Imaging (CEI) — a program consisting of multiple projects aimed at improving the display and sharing of images across the institution.

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