It was supposed to be an innovation grant application. That was the initial idea when physician, disease hunter and entrepreneur Dan Peterson submitted a funding application for his healthcare software to address the big costly problem of antibiotic resistance. But as Dr. Amanda Christini, the director for strategic initiatives at the Center for Health Care Innovation, […]
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health threat caused partly by the overprescription of antibiotics. But bacteria’s resistance to commonly used antibiotics can vary depending on the region and the hospital. In a bid to build a better way to predict which antibiotics are most appropriate, Penn Medicine is collaborating with health IT startup Teqqa […]
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Penn Medicine is planning to expand its Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology with the opening of a center in Mumbai, India in a joint venture with the Mahatma Gandhi Mission Institute of Health Sciences, MedCity News has learned. The move would help the health system expand its brand in an emerging market and reflects […]
A public health design challenge wants to increase awareness of automated external defibrillators. Penn Medicine and University of Pennsylvania have kicked off the contest to help bystanders intervene for sudden cardiac arrest victims to increase their chances of survival. The Defibrillator Design Challenge is looking for designs that combine art and also maintain easy access […]
Caregivers need care, too. While therapy dogs often help in patients’ treatment at Penn Medicine, one nurse realized the pooches’ presence benefited the nursing staff, too. “Research shows patient interaction with animals offers physiological benefits including decreased heart rate and blood pressure,” according to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). But HUP’s Pups […]
With an eye to patient-centered care, there’s a push for hospitals to put more emphasis on improving the patient experience. Pediatric hospitals fill their patients’ days with activities, bathe their single rooms in natural light and let family sleep over. Could they be a useful model for improving adult hospitals? An editorial in the Journal […]
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Penn Medicine recently hosted a local HIMSS chapter for a seminar on provider engagement. Dr. John McGreevey III, an associate CMIO at Penn Medicine, highlighted several ways to engage providers and tactics to avoid. He outlined some of the significant challenges in getting insights and feedback for IT projects: a lack of interest, a lack […]
Brian Wells’ job is to make big data and technology issues disappear for the researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine. He also works to make it easier for doctors and patients to share health information electronically. The associate chief information officer for health technology and academic computing at Penn Medicine took some time to […]
Brian Wells’s job is to make big data and technology issues disappear for the researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine. He is building the technical infrastructure needed to achieve the goals of personalized medicine regarding biobanking and genetic sequencing. This associate chief information officer for Health Technology and Academic Computing at Penn Medicine recently […]
A digital map to help patients and visitors navigate its sprawling hospital campus and a Web-based scheduler to help patients organize their appointments with healthcare professionals in Penn Medicine‘s health system will be implemented as part of an innovation challenge to improve the patient experience at its hospitals. Participants worked with professors at University of […]
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Hospitals looking for innovative ways to improve patient care might want to encourage staff who are working with patients to offer ideas on how it could be done. Penn Medicine in Philadelphia recently launched an innovation tournament across its health system to devise ways to improve patient care. Participants worked with professors at University of […]
AT&T is partnering with the American Medical Association to consolidate their healthcare information exchanges. The strategic alliance will combine the AMA’s physician community portal, Amagine, with AT&T’s Healthcare Community Online, according to a statement from AT&T and the AMA. The AMA has spent at least $15 million developing the physician portal through its subsidiary Amagine […]
As Penn Medicine expands digital health across its health system with the continued implementation of electronic medical records for inpatients and improves patient-monitoring for patients at risk for readmission, it is striking a balance between the need for change and the need for carrying it out at a manageable pace. Bill Hanson was appointed chief […]
A nursing staff with advanced practice experience and the increasing role of health IT are two prominent hiring trends at Penn Medicine this year as health systems look for ways to improve patient outcomes. About 35 percent of the 1,000 hires it expects to make this year will be nurses and nursing support, including nurse […]
Penn Medicine is holding an “innovation tournament” for staff and faculty to propose ideas to improve the patient experience throughout its health system. In a phone interview with MedCity News, Judy Schueler, Penn Medicine chief human resources officer and vice president of organization development, said the competition is scheduled for a February 7 kick off. […]