Awards and Accolades Received in 2023

Penn Medicine received a 2023 CSO50 Award for its cybersecurity phishing detection and response initiative from the cybersecurity news organization CSO. The project sought to solve the challenge of relying heavily on employees to report suspicious and malicious messages with a new 24/7 phishing detection and response service. The service uses the latest intelligence on emerging phishing attacks and greatly enhances the health system’s ability to quickly and efficiently protect the organization against cyber threats. CSO distributes awards for outstanding projects and thought leadership annually.

Several Penn Medicine IS colleagues contributed to the Improving Hepatitis C Screening and Linkage to Care During Hospitalization initiative which has been awarded one of the 2023 Penn Medicine Quality & Patient Safety Awards. This award recognizes departments and/or teams who have exhibited leadership and innovation that ensure high-quality clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, patient safety, or operational improvement.

Penn Medicine is a recipient of the 2023 CIO 100 Award for its initiative, House Call: Revolutionizing Immunology Research with Home Collections. This project supports concrete steps to improve health equity and inclusion in research studies for underserved populations. The annual CIO 100 Awards celebrates 100 organizations and the teams within them that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth, or improving relationships with customers. Congratulations to all teams involved in making this initiative a success!

Penn Medicine Information Services team became a semi-finalist in the 2023 Healthcare Innovation Innovators program for their cancer registry case finder. Penn Medicine built an in-house application to automate, organize, and manage the cancer registry process empowering the organization to identify which patients qualify for inclusion in the registry. The application provides real-time data reporting, analytics to assess appropriate staffing, improved data quality, and data for research. Michael Restuccia, senior vice president, and chief information officer at Penn Medicine, remarks, “The development of the Cancer Registry Case Finder application is the result of the trustful collaborative efforts between the Corporate IS team and the Cancer Center representatives to produce a solution that improves operational efficiency, enhances patient care and has the ability to benefit not only Penn Medicine but also other leading institutions throughout the country. Such a unique and far-reaching initiative is only possible through leveraging a deep partnership with the Cancer Center subject matter experts and applying the best technical approach to generate such a successful outcome.” Read More