Penn Medicine

The test was developed as an alternative to RT-PCR tests, which require trained laboratory technicians to perform and can take days to get results back.  

Penn Medicine CIO Michael Restuccia discusses the challenges he and his staff have faced during the pandemic, including moving to remote work and having to hit pause on a big implementation.

The industry has learned a lot during the last decade, and now we’re ready to use those lessons learned to move in new directions, says Subha Airan-Javia, associate professor at Penn Medicine. 

The duo plan to develop a product that is able to remotely monitor hypertensive patients and get them care faster.  

Private equity firm Aspire Universal and LG Health, have partnered to create a new $300 million fund called the Aspire Ventures Precision Medicine Fund.

The assumption that all innovation needs to be technological is a problematic one.

The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Medicine has been an active player in the telehealth game for sometime with multiple telehealth units, but last week it went a step further to announce that it will be centralizing its telemedicine activities into the Penn Medicine Center for Connected Care.

Correction: A previous version of this article said that Gliimpse founder Anil Sethi was still at Apple.

So many well-meaning patient engagement efforts are based on a fallacy.

In a first for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Penn Medicine launched a new ResearchKit app today aimed at people with a rare condition called sarcoidosis, which is characterized by inflammation to one or multiple parts of the body including eyes, skin, lungs, heart, brain and other organs.