Penn Medicine Information Services

25/07/2025

The DVHIMSS 2025 Board gathered for our annual retreat—an energizing opportunity to welcome new members and align on priorities for the year ahead. Looking forward to advancing health IT across our region through impactful programming, collaboration, and innovation. From Penn Medicine are: Joy Iocca, Chair Finance Committee, President Elect and Cole Lyons, Member Communications and Sponsorship Committee.

16/07/2025

Check out one of our latest papers: A continuous pursuit of excellence: Leveraging innovative technology, operations and financial insights to overcome healthcare challenges. This content was developed by Penn Medicine's chief digital applications officer, Anna Schoenbaum, DNP, MS, RN, NI-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN, and Jeffrey Tokazewski, MD, who were eager to share their insights on fostering a culture of continuous improvement to help navigate the healthcare industry's complexity and evolving patient expectations.

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11/07/2025

Penn Medicine's Walter Witschey and Kyle Mongeau are excited to participate in the Healthcare Innovation Summit on August 18, 2025 in Washington DC. https://www.hisummits.com/washingtondc. They will be talking about their Penn AInSights project, which won the Innovators award!
Penn AInSights addresses the critical challenge of detecting subclinical disease early, through advanced analysis of radiologic data. It is a live, end-to-end AI reporting platform developed at Penn Medicine that automates the workflow from image capture through AI analysis to diagnostic reporting and is expanding among other clinical use cases.

30/06/2025

Penn Medicine is a recipient of the 2025 CSO Awards for their project, Cyber Threat Detection Overhaul, demonstrating the innovative use of IT to deliver business value.

https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/publishing-and-media/2025-cso-award-winners-and-hall-of-fame-inductees-to-be-recognized-at-the-cso-1038556

Acknowledgements from CSO: “The scope and complexity of cybersecurity responsibilities are expanding rapidly—especially in the face of emerging AI-driven threats,” said Beth Kormanik, Content Director of the CSO Conference & Awards. “This year’s CSO Award winners exemplify how today’s security leaders are meeting these challenges head-on.”

“From deploying machine learning to detect sophisticated attacker behaviors to implementing passwordless authentication across large organizations, these initiatives reflect the value of bold, forward-thinking security strategies,” Kormanik added. “We congratulate the winners and look forward to honoring them, along with the broader security community, at this fall’s CSO Conference & Awards.”

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30/06/2025

Penn Medicine’s Entity Services team meets quarterly to discuss relevant topics impacting the Entity Information Officers, End User Support and Clinical Engineering. This quarter, a leadership panel was held and key agenda topics shared among the group covered: Penn Medicine’s Security Vision, Artificial Intelligence Innovations, HR leadership topics. It was a successful event and the team looks forward to the next session in the fall.

06/06/2025

Penn Medicine knowledge leaders presented at the recent 2025 AAMC Group on Information Resources (GIR) conference. The meeting provided an excellent opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, network with professionals from other Academic Medical Institutions, and highlight the numerous achievements of Penn Medicine!

Talks featured:
• John Salmon presented on ‘Decentralizing Data Access Without Losing Control: Developing a Research Honest Broker Program’ highlighting the model that decentralizes EHR data access for research while maintaining strong governance and compliance.
• Meredith Fetters & Chris Dymek presented a poster on ‘Spinning Out a Research Organization into Two For-Profit Startup Companies’, showcasing the complexity and efforts of a cross-collaborative team to successfully spin out the Penn Gene Therapy Program.
• Kaitlyn Phelan & Meredith Fetters presented a poster on ‘Advancing Immune Health through Innovation and Technology’, highlighting the automation and expansion of Immune Health at Penn.

Two exciting Penn announcements from the meeting included Nate DiGiorgio being named as a new Co-Chair of the AAMC GIR Research Technology Work Group (RTWG). Danielle Mowery was announced as a new steering committee member for the AAMC Group on Information Resources (GIR), the GIR is governed by a nine-member steering committee made up of peers from Academic Medical Centers.

03/06/2025

AMIA’s Clinical Informatics Conference, held from May 20th - May 22nd gathered and connected clinical informaticians to share their innovation into practice-ready solutions that make an immediate impact on patient care.
Asaf Hanish, Lead Data Scientist for Penn DnA, represented Penn Medicine with his presentation on Adoption and Utility: Evaluation of Usage Rate and Editing Overlap for Artificial Intelligence-Drafted Replies to Patient Messages. The session provided insight into the implementation and evaluation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to respond to patient portal messages. Attendees learned about the high variation in usage rates and editing efforts, prompting a discussion of best practices for implementation of these technologies in attendees’ own clinical settings. They also learned data analysis and visualization strategies they can apply when implementing and evaluating the utility of AI tools in clinical practice.

Joy Iocca, Sr. Director Clinical Informatics, also presented on EHR integrated clinical pathways: a rapidly iterative, experimental approach for Learning Health Systems. The session showed how Penn Medicine used an existing clinical pathways program and a new alliance to establish a Learning Health System (LHS) model to integrate evidence-based clinical pathways into an EHR. Integrated pathways enabled real-time guidance, outcome assessment, and clinician feedback. This LHS model rapidly deployed evidence-based pathways, improved workflows, and increased preferred treatment orders, demonstrating a simple, scalable approach to high-quality care integration.

22/05/2025

Leaders throughout Digital Applications and Operations recently came together for a half-day retreat. Participants worked together to level-set on expertise, identify individual and collective strengths and plan for a successful FY26. The discussions focused on: proposed practices and norms to enable future success, team strengths and leverage points, future areas of focus to build off momentum from the retreat.

14/05/2025

Alex Fischman, Sr. Analyst on our EHR Application team, recently co-authored a publication with Dr. Usman and others in the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. The article is titled “Rescue Transesophageal Echocardiography Matrix for In-hospital Hemodynamic Instability and Cardiac Arrest Imaging.”
You can read it here:
https://www.jcvaonline.com/article/S1053-0770(25)00358-1/fulltext

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28/03/2025

AI scribes are increasingly being adopted in health systems, and a recent study led by Penn Medicine researchers, published in JAMA Network Open, explored their impact on clinician wellness. The study was recently cited by Dr. Leana Wen on CNN and featured in The Washington Post.

The use of AI applications in medical care is growing. Dr. Leana Wen explains the uses of AI that could improve care — and the reasons for continued caution.

18/03/2025

"Ambient scribing technology can... reduce clinicians' mental burden and possibly enhance their engagement with patients." says Penn Medicine Chief Information Application Officer, Anna Schoenbaum. Read more here on this topic!
https://www.healio.com/news/hematology-oncology/20250317/ambient-scribe-tool-increases-efficiency-reduces-documentation-burden-for-clinicians

Ambient scribing technology significantly decreased clinical documentation burden among a cohort of health care professionals at an academic medical center, according to study results.The findings specifically showed that an ambient scribe tool led to increased clinician efficiency, lower mental bur...

12/03/2025

Penn Medicine Makes a Splash at HIMSS25!
Penn Medicine leaders took center stage at this year’s HIMSS conference, sharing insights on cutting-edge digital health, AI, and innovative care models. From smart hospitals to AI-powered solutions, our experts tackled some of healthcare’s biggest challenges.

-Ann Huffenberger joined a powerhouse panel with UPHS, Johns Hopkins, MUSC, and Manatt to discuss Leveraging Virtual Care to Alleviate Healthcare Workforce Strain.
-Anna Schoenbaum outlined the vision the Penn Medicine’s Smart Hospital and how they will revolutionize patient care.
-Anna Schoenbaum highlighted Collaborative Leadership in Digital Health Innovation and showcased the AI Toolkit for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals.
-Michael Sheinberg explored Transforming Healthcare with Trustworthy AI.
-Gary Davidson & Michael Sheinberg tackled Improving Appointment Capacity through streamlined scheduling and physician engagement.
-Keith Cromwell shared insights on State Government Implementation of SDOH Data Interoperability Standards.
-Tessa Cook provided a CXO’s playbook for Clinical Practice Transformation Fueled by Imaging Informatics.