Awards and Accolades Received in 2018

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.