Areas of Support
The Information Services (IS) department at Penn Medicine currently supports:
- 125 projects on average are managed at any given time
- 500 interfaces connect data between applications
- 238 applications
- 45,448 desktop computers/laptops
- 2,441 servers
- 581 databases
- 3,678,000 linear feet or 696 miles of network/telecom cable installed
- 33,179 cell phones/smart phones
- IS education offered approximately 800 classes last year
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 4 billion rows of data in it and grows by over 2 million rows on average a day
- Penn Medicine's data and voice network supports users at over 90 separate physical locations throughout the Delaware Valley
- We process more than 1.5 million emails per day
- PennChart electronic medical record (EMR) database is over 7 terabytes
- About 30 million unstructured documents searchable in PennSeek
Emerging Technology Initiatives
- Precision Medicine
- Patient Engagement
- Telemedicine