Penn Medicine

To scale digital health, providers need organizational structure changes
By Aditi Pai | 11:11 am | October 29, 2015
Two challenges to scaling digital health technologies within a provider group are lack of collaboration between departments and too much focus on the technology instead of how the technology can be applied within a care model, according to Dr.
New DreamIt class targets epilepsy, cancer, concussions, and more
By Jonah Comstock | 10:29 am | July 15, 2015
Philadelphia-based digital health accelerator DreamIt Health has announced its third class.
Penn Medicine, Independence Blue Cross talk patient engagement strategies
By Jonah Comstock | 11:22 am | June 18, 2015
Personalized medicine was a hot topic at the BIO conference in Philadelphia, but in a session on digital health and patient engagement, payer and provider panelists also talked about how, in order to really drive medication and treatment adherence, patient engagement also has to be personalized.
Tablet app reduces CHF patient readmissions by 53 percent
By Aditi Pai | 10:41 am | April 09, 2015
New York City-based Health Recovery Solutions announced that its tablet-based program reduced the 30-day readmission rate for 130 congestive heart failure (CHF) patients at Penn Medicine’s Penn Care at Home program by 53 percent.