Areas of Support
The Information Services (IS) department at Penn Medicine currently supports:
- 200 projects on average are managed at any given time
- 400 interfaces connect data between applications
- 200 applications
- 20,000 desktop computers/laptops
- 1,200 servers
- 200 databases
- 36,000 network ports
- 4,000 cell phones/smart phones
Performance
- MedView – a web-based portal for Penn Medicine clinicians that receives over one million hits per month
- Penn Medicine's clinical data warehouse has over 1.4 billion rows of data in it and grows by 400,000 a day
- Penn Medicine's data and voice network supports users at over 90 separate physical locations throughout the Delaware Valley
- Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) is 100% deployed at all three hospitals
- The ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) is 100% implemented with 1,800 physicians currently utilizing it
Emerging Technology Initiatives:
- Clinical Communications – Building an enterprise-wide clinical communications system to optimize delivery of critical values
- Epic Haiku and Canto iPhone and iPad Applications – Piloting for view-only access to the patient's medical record on a mobile device
- Epic Clinical Trial Best Practice Advisory – Implementing Epic's Best Practice Advisory functionality to alert physicians when a patient meets certain criteria that make them eligible for participation in a clinical trial
- Epic Care Everywhere for Health Information Exchange (HIE) – Deploying Epic's functionality to exchange medical information, incorporating Meaningful Use
- Use of the iPad in Patient Education – Using the iPad to deliver patient educational content to improve patient's ability to self-manage their disease, to improve patient satisfaction, and potentially lower readmission rates
Additional Emerging Technology Prospects:
- Telemedicine
- Cloud Computing in Research
- Unified Communications
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