PHILADELPHIA - Penn Medicine’s Information Services team has been recognized by Health & Hospital Networks with the Most Wired Award for the eighth time in the last decade. The award recognizes Information Services for its work in positioning Penn Medicine as an innovator in the fast-moving health care IT field.
“The recognition of Most Wired could not be attained without the collaborative working relationship between representatives of the Information Services organization and our operational partners. Together, Penn Medicine has been able to adopt new technologies across a broad array of services in order to further enable the care provided to our patients,” said Michael Restuccia, vice president and chief information officer for the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
The annual Most Wired survey aims to measure the level of information technology adoption in U.S. hospitals and health systems. The 2016 Most Wired Survey distinguishes Penn Medicine for their use of technology throughout the health system. Each year, H&HN only recognizes those health systems that are setting the benchmark for healthcare technology adoption.
The survey of 680 participants, representing an estimated 2,146 hospitals—more than 34 percent of all hospitals in the U.S.—examines how organizations are leveraging IT to improve performance for value-based health care in the areas of infrastructure, business and administrative management; quality and safety; and clinical integration.
The award will be presented by Pat Riley, president of NBA’s Miami Heat, during the Health Forum and American Hospital Leadership Summit Activities which will be held in San Diego, Calif. from July 17 through July 19.
Detailed results of the survey and study can be found in the July issue of H&HN. For a full list of winners, visit www.hhnmag.com/.
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s patient care facilities stretch from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore. These include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Pennsylvania Hospital—the nation’s first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional facilities and enterprises include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine at Home, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health, among others.
Penn Medicine is an $11.1 billion enterprise powered by more than 49,000 talented faculty and staff.