UC San Diego Health has announced gifts totaling $22 million from Joan and Irwin Jacobs to expand the Center for Health Innovation.

The gifts will fund a novel patient care “mission control center” within the Jacobs Medical Center that will serve as a hub to monitor patient health and safety through integration of data streams from cameras, sensors, electronic health records, bedside monitors, imaging, and wearables. The center will work to develop AI algorithms and models that proactively improve personalized treatment and health equity. In addition, the gifts will support the Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Digital Health Innovation, a physician-scientist faculty member who will lead mission control center initiatives.

The Giving Pledge signatories are longtime supporters of UC San Diego Health, including gifts totaling $100 million to build the Jacobs Medical Center, the 10-story, 245-bed academic medical center in La Jolla.

“We owe an incredible debt of gratitude to the Jacobs family for always stepping forward to help us develop new ideas, places and technologies that will change patient care for the better,” said UC San Diego Health CEO Patty Maysent. “This gift will allow us to solve real-world patient care issues and translate them into safe patient-centered technologies that monitor, prevent, or treat a variety of conditions.”

(Photo courtesy of the Jacobs family, via UC San Diego Health)