Information Services awards and accolades

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.”

Every year for the past ten years, Penn Medicine has been named the CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executive) Healthcare’s Most Wired List for its use of information technology in supporting care delivery. In addition to making a Most Wired list for a decade now, this year’s achievement is the 18th time overall that Penn Medicine has achieved “Most Wired” status on the list recognizing hospitals and health systems for their technological process.

Penn Medicine is a recipient of the 2022 CIO 100 Award for its initiative that sought to accelerate research by rapidly expanding the Penn Medicine BioBank (PMBB) through the integration of clinical and research IT systems. By using a data-driven approach to unlock new pathways, Penn Medicine is decoding information from patients’ own DNA to deliver personalized care. The PMBB expansion has the potential to make Penn Medicine one of the largest single-institution biorepositories, which is enabled by information systems.

Penn Medicine Information Services has been recognized among the recipients of the University of Pennsylvania Commitment to Excellence Award (2020-2022) for their contributions to Penn Cares – a University project which helped in keeping the campus safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dozens of team members contributed to Penn Cares through their work on the Project Quaker and PennOpen Pass initiatives.

Becker’s Hospital Review released the 2021 edition of the “102 hospital and health system CIOs to know” annual list. Mike Restuccia, senior vice president and chief information officer at Penn Medicine, was named as one of the featured CIO’s in this edition.

The executives featured on this list lead technology and health IT initiatives for hospitals and health systems across the U.S. They oversee EHR installations, cybersecurity, data management and telemedicine services. Many have built robust technology departments and teams, including clinical and non-clinical experts.

The individuals and institutions featured here have received recognition from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.

Call it a nine-peat. Every year for the last nine years, Penn Medicine has made the CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) Healthcare’s Most Wired list. In addition to making a Most Wired list for nine consecutive years, this year’s achievement is the 17th time overall that Penn Medicine has achieved Most Wired status, a designation recognizing hospitals and health systems that optimize the use of information technology to support care delivery. CHIME announced the accomplishment today.

Penn Medicine’s Predictive Healthcare Team was recognized as one of seven finalists for the CMS AI Challenge. The research was conducted by Dr. Emily J. MacKay, Dr. Michael D. Stubna, and Penn Medicine’s Predictive Healthcare Team using a machine learning risk model to predict adverse outcomes from medical and surgical treatments. The results of researched were published by PLOS: a nonprofit Open Access publisher that empowers researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine. The intended use of this system is to enable informed conversations between patients and physicians, resulting in better understood expectations, and personalized care plans.

Penn Medicine Information Services team became a semi-finalist in the 2021 Healthcare Innovation Innovator Awards program as they were able to develop a way to allow clinicians and genetic counselors to enter orders within the EHR and electronically interface them with an outside lab. The interface then transmits discrete results into the EHR, segregating genetic variants, which allows clinicians to make better informed clinical decisions. Solving this business problem integrates clinical data and enables clinicians to review results as part of the chart. “We became one of the first organizations in the country to enable the import of discrete genetic test results into our EHR, working alongside Epic,” Landgraf says. Very few healthcare institutions have implemented genetic testing results into the EHR, and Penn Medicine now has several outside laboratories lining up to complete integration of genetic lab tests within its EHR and other health systems have asked how they completed this project in a relatively short time frame.

Penn Medicine earned a Future Edge 50 Award for the Conversation Connect project. This project redesigned a clinical workflow with a machine learning algorithm that automatically flags patients who would benefit most from a timely conversation about their end-of-life goals and wishes and prompts clinicians to have these conversations before patients’ illnesses progress too far.. The project was led by Penn Medicine’s Predictive Healthcare Team with the Abramson Cancer Center and was made up of a cross-disciplinary team of oncologists, clinical informaticists, human factors scientists, data scientists, and software engineers. “Conversation Connect is an incredible program that helps oncologists meet seriously ill patients’ goals of care,” said Michael Draugelis, chief data scientist at Penn Medicine. “We’re incredibly proud of the compassionate conversations that have resulted from this re-imagining of the workflow, and this program serves as a model of how to use AI to deliver value in healthcare.” The program has resulted in an improved patient care experience, and the reduction of missed opportunities for important conversations.

PHILADELPHIA — For the eighth consecutive year, Penn Medicine’s Information Services (IS) have been recognized on the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Healthcare’s Most Wired list. This is the 16th time overall that Penn Medicine IS has made the list, which recognizes hospitals and health systems that embrace and maximize technology to support the delivery of care.

“To be recognized by CHIME and the Most Wired Survey is continued validation of Penn Medicine’s approach to have an integrated EHR platform that supports patient safety and outcomes,” said Michael Restuccia, senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO). “The achievement exemplifies the collaboration and teamwork that exists between our clinical community and Information Services.”

Penn Medicine, as a health system, achieved Digital Health Certified Acute Level 8 status, receiving the Quality Award, meaning that it is among the organizations that “have deployed technologies and strategies…to help them analyze their data and are starting to achieve meaningful clinical and efficiency outcomes,” according to the official designation.

Mike Restuccia of Penn Medicine was named the healthcare winner of the 2020 PHILLYCIO of the Year ORBIE Awards. This is truly a recognition of a strong and dedicated Penn Medicine healthcare technology team. For over 20 years, the CIO ORBIE Awards have recognized technology executives for leadership, innovation and excellence in this rapidly growing, CIO-led national professional association.

The Philadelphia CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards is the premier technology executive recognition program in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards honors chief information officers who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership. CIOs are typically recognized in multiple categories, based on the size and scope of their organization and responsibilities.

Penn Medicine won the Enterprise Awards for Digital Innovation from Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) for its initiative led by Andrew Rech, MD, PdD and Derek Oldridge, MD, PdD, in developing the Immune Health Report, a software platform integrating information across our health system to enable real time clinical decision support and research discoveries in cancer immunotherapy. “Cancer immunotherapy is now mainstream, first-line therapy. However, clinical immune assessment lags far behind — the Immune Health report addresses this critical gap.” Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, Director of Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center. Mike Restuccia, senior vice president and chief information officer supports that, “Medicine is being transformed by personalized approaches that rely on data and at Penn Medicine digital innovation is at the core of our mission with The Immune Health Report; a software platform which is integrating information across our health system.”

IDG’s CIO has named Penn Medicine as a 2020 CIO 100 award honoree. For more than 30 years, the CIO 100 awards have recognized innovative organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in IT. Penn Medicine successfully scaled patient care delivery via telemedicine within our EHR and patient portal to run “business as usual.” We consolidated to a single integrated telemedicine EHR platform, educated providers and patients regarding the use of telemedicine, and eliminated substantial costs. The provider “e-consults” service, resulted in seamless EHR workflow and billing for providers to discuss treatment plans. We now operate telemedicine as “business as usual,” which is a major Healthcare IT industry milestone.

Penn Medicine’s Information Services (IS) team won the Professional Award for Best Security Team and finalist for Best CISO at the 2020 SC Awards. Presented by SC Media, a leading voice in the cybersecurity business community, the award honors organizations and individuals that “spread the gospel of cybersecurity,” directly through their work or by training the next generation of the workforce. Dan Costantino, chief information security officer, leads Penn Medicine’s IS security team under Michael Restuccia, chief information officer. He believes the award is in response to building trust across the health system, which leads to programs bringing IS in earlier to help consult and proactively address potential security risks.

For the work its done to integrate patient genomic data into electronic medical records in a way that’s usable for both researchers and clinicians, Penn Medicine was recognized by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) with this year’s Group on Information Resources (GIR) Excellence Award. The implementation team, which is made up of representatives from Information Services, clinical workgroups and Penn’s genetic research efforts, was recognized for the achievement. The Excellence Award is given to individuals and teams that have “contributed to a work of excellence in academic medical information technology domain.”

Penn Medicine was named a Future Edge 50 Award winner for the Penn Medicine EHR Chart Review Precision Medicine Tab implementation. Presented by CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council, Future Edge 50 Awards recognize organizations pushing the edge with new technologies to advance their businesses for the future. The successor to the Digital Edge 50 Awards, the FutureEdge 50 brings to light the most cutting-edge trials and applications of emerging technologies — and the innovative cultures enabling them.

Penn Medicine was named as a winner of a CSO50 award for its Just in Time Awareness (JITA) project, a platform created to deliver in-the-moment digital security education as employees access potentially risky websites. Penn Medicine was one of 50 organizations recognized by CSO — an online news outlet focused on cyber security — for security initiatives that display “outstanding business value and thought leadership.”

Penn Medicine Information Services was named as finalists for Best CISO and Best Security team.

Penn Medicine Information Services was named as finalists for Best CISO and Best Security team.

Penn Medicine (Philadelphia, PA) has been named the winner of ECRI Institute’s 13th Health Devices Achievement Award. The organization was honored for its development of a dashboard and clinician alert system that uses electronic health record (EHR) data to promote more rapid weaning from mechanical ventilation and sedation. ECRI Institute presents the Health Devices Achievement Award to recognize outstanding initiatives undertaken by member healthcare institutions to improve patient safety, reduce costs, or otherwise facilitate better strategic management of health technology.

Penn Medicine was named a Digital Edge 50 Award winner for the Awakening Breathing Coordination (ABC) Program. Using clinical decision support algorithms developed with help from the Center for Predictive Medicine, the ABC program is designed to allow patients to be weaned from sedation and mechanical ventilation at the earliest appropriate time through the display of real-time data on an electronic dashboard and by alerting clinicians through mobile devices. By removing patients from ventilators earlier so they can breathe on their own, care teams can shorten patients’ stay in the ICU, reduce the costs associated with their care, and improve patients’ overall experience, both physically and mentally. Presented by CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council, Digital Edge 50 Awards recognize 50 organizations making “great strides toward being digital-centric businesses.”

Delaware Valley Health Care Patient Safety and Quality Award Penn Medicine Information Services is proud to be part of the winning second place team for the Delaware Valley Patient Safety and Quality Awards this year! Second place goes to Penn Medicine for their initiative, “ICU Liberation: Executing the ‘ABCDEF’ Bundle Daily.”

A study using cloud-computing to track and display brain activity in real-time for the potential treatment of depression has netted Penn Medicine, Princeton University, Yale University and Intel Corporation with a Fierce Innovation Award. Given each year by FierceMarkets, Fierce Innovation Awards are presented to organizations that solve telecommunications challenges, such as issues with device and connection security, syncing, and signal quality.

Penn Medicine received the Enterprise Award for Digital Innovation, given to an organization that applies new or existing technology in an innovative way to solve a problem or advance goals, from Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) for the creation of Penn Life Gained, a first-of-its-kind mobile app for bariatric surgery patients.

Penn Medicine was named as a winner of a CSO50 award for its Just in Time Awareness (JITA) project, a platform created to deliver in-the-moment digital security education as employees access potentially risky websites. Penn Medicine was one of 50 organizations recognized by CSO — an online news outlet focused on cyber security — for security initiatives that display “outstanding business value and thought leadership.” Seth Fogie, director of IS security, Andrea Thomas-Lloyd, director of information assurance, Dwight Hobbs, senior security engineer, Dan Costantino, chief information security officer, and Gary Davidson, senior vice president and chief information officer of Lancaster General Health, were involved with the project.

Penn Medicine Information Services earned the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards for our PennChart EHR implementation project.

Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards Penn Medicine runner up for our Standardized Clinical iPhone project.

The Most Wired Survey distinguishes Penn Medicine for their use of technology throughout the health system.

Penn Medicine is honored to be a part of the Security 500 Rankings demonstrate which security programs are taking the lead as forerunners in their industries.

The Most Wired Survey distinguishes Penn Medicine for their use of technology throughout the health system.

The Digital Edge 50 Award was given for leveraging digital technology in an innovative way. A Penn Medicine team created a mobile electronic medical record patient dashboard that consolidates real-time patient data from multiple clinical IS systems here at Penn.  This award is produced by IDG Enterprise media brands CIO and Computerworld and the CIO Executive Council.

HealthShare Exchange 2017 Champion Award recipient- Congrats to Penn Medicine for contributions made to our regional health information exchange (HSX). Steady efforts have ensured that Penn Medicine is well represented across many HSX committees. Through our efforts, Penn Medicine is gaining valuable benefits from the exchange in support of the provision of patient care.

For the second year in a row, Penn Medicine has been ranked (4th) in the top 10 in 2016’s InformationWeek Elite 100, an annual list of U.S. businesses from all industries that use innovative and leading information technologies to run their business.

Penn Medicine placed fourth this year across all industries and is being recognized for the implementation of Penn Signals, a real-time big data platform used to generate multiple predictive applications delivered to clinical teams. The success of this project is directly related to the collaborative efforts of the Information Services department and the Office of the Chief Medical Information Officer.

Penn Medicine’s Information Services (IS) team has been included in CIO magazine’s list of 100 organizations for innovative use of information technology. Penn Medicine Information Services (IS) is recognized for realizing the capabilities of Apple’s new HealthKit tool when combined with Penn Medicine’s electronic medical record (EMR) system. This novel approach enabled Penn Medicine clinicians to improve the patient experience by allowing caregivers to monitor and take a proactive approach to care.

2015-2016 AAMC Pioneer Innovation Award - The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) has awarded Penn Medicine's Information Services team the prestigious Learning Health System Research Pioneer Award for their work to enhance and align the research and clinical domains of Penn Medicine. Dubbed Clinical Research+, the strategic set of projects leverages technology, processes, and people to analyze, and share clinical and research data within Penn Medicine.

Penn Medicine has been recognized by Health & Hospital Networks with the Most Wired Award which recognizes Information Services for its work in positioning Penn Medicine as an innovator in the fast-moving health care IT field.

Michael Restuccia, vice president and chief information officer for Penn Medicine, was named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 Technology Leaders for 2016. Through the award program, Computerworld aims to shine a light on technology and business leaders across the nation.

Restuccia is recognized for leading his information services team in support of Penn Medicine’s strategic precision medicine initiatives. Key initiatives include the insourcing of most information service functions from an outsourced firm, implementation of a common electronic medical record across all Penn Medicine patient care settings, deployment of patient care (Penn Data Store) and research computing (PennOmics) data warehouses and the establishment of a Data Access Center to drive analytic value from collected data.

Penn Medicine’s Information Services team ranked (9th) among the top 10 of all entries and first among health care entrants in this year’s InformationWeek Elite 100, an annual list of the best U.S.-based users of business technology for its implementation and use of PennSeek, a self-service, web-based data discovery platform.

Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards Co-Third-Place Winner: Research data warehouse empowers the learning health system with PennOmics. Our physicians and researchers can gain access in one unified platform to massive amounts of anonymous, aggregate patient data from millions of electronic health records and cancer genomics data from stand-alone data-collection systems.

The 2015 Most Wired Survey distinguishes Penn Medicine for their use of technology throughout the health system.

HealthCare’s Most Wired: Innovation Award Winner H&HN also honored Information Services with the 2015 Innovator Award for the team’s work in developing and implementing a Mobile Patient Dashboard. Developed with clinical staff in mind, the Mobile Patient Dashboard app provides quick access to electronic medical records through an easy-to-use interface.

The Digital Edge 25 Award was given for leveraging digital technology in an innovative way. A Penn Medicine team created a mobile electronic medical record patient dashboard that consolidates real-time patient data from multiple clinical IS systems here at Penn.

This award is produced by IDG Enterprise media brands CIO and Computerworld and the CIO Executive Council.

Becker’s Hospital Review has named “100 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know” based on the selected leaders’ abilities to leverage existing and new technology to further the mission of their organizations while elevating the level of patient care.

These CIOs have spent their careers seeing the opportunity in challenges and innovating new solutions in a constantly changing field, making themselves invaluable figures in their hospital or health systems’ executive teams. Penn Medicine’s CIO, Mike Restuccia was honored with this recognition.

Penn Medicine is recognized for leadership by Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition, a unique awards program from the publishers of FierceHealthIT, FierceHealthcare, and FierceMobileHealthcare.

Penn Medicine received top honors in Clinical Information Management category. Judges evaluated submissions based on the following criteria: quality of care and patient outcomes, care efficiency, financial impact, market validation, and overall Fierceness and Innovation. Penn Medicine is being recognized for its innovative, industry-leading product, mobile EMR patient dashboard.

Penn Medicine achieves honors for the Second Annual Health Information Exchange Champion Awards (2014).

At its November 10, 2014 HIE summit, HealthShare Exchange presented its HIE Champions Award for the second year to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional effort in advancing health information exchange in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

In 2014, Penn Medicine was named one of the nation’s 100 “Most Wired” hospitals and health care systems by Hospitals & Health Networks, the Journal of the American Hospital Association. The award is based on an annual survey that polls the nation’s health care systems on their use of Internet technologies to connect patients, physicians and nurses, payors, health plans and employees.

Penn Medicine places in the elite 100 for “PennOmics,” an integrated research and clinical-data warehouse that supports the goals of precision medicine, which uses an individual’s genetic profile, diagnostic test results, and medical history to help doctors select the most suitable treatments for meeting the patient’s exact needs.