Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) ranks #27 in the United States and #50 globally alongside the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Newsweek’s World’s Best Smart Hospitals 2021. The list ranks the 250 best medical institutions that are leading the field in smart technologies like digital surgery, imaging, artificial intelligence, telehealth and electronic medical records. Results are based on worldwide recommendations from medical professionals.
“We are proud to develop and deploy the best possible approaches to caring for our patients,” said Michele Volpe, Chief Executive Officer of PPMC. “This means we’re not only offering the most advanced diagnostic tools, treatments and therapies, but we also constantly seek to implement systems and technologies that make it easier and faster to deliver the right care to each patient, and provide them with a positive experience while they’re in our hospitals.”
According to William Hanson, MD, chief medical information officer at Penn Medicine, PPMC has most recently focused on initiatives to improve nursing efficiencies, including the use of a mobile application that allows nurses to do work in the computer system while on the move, rather than at a nursing station. The application allows nurses to send secure messages on the go and scan medication orders from their phones.
“We strive to use technology that helps improving speed and ensuring safety, so that less time is spent writing notes, or ordering tests and prescriptions, and more energy and attention can be focused on the patient and their personalized care plan,” Hanson said.