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Peoria surgeon Dr. Sonia Orcutt has landed an $80,000 grant to study use of 3D technology and Virtual Reality, created at the Jump Simulation and Education Center. Pediatric Surgeon Mathew Bramlet's technology has been used to plan complicated heart surgeries for infants and children but Orcutt's study will look at whether it can be used for other, complex surgeries. The goal is to determine if using 3D technology to prepare for surgery improves efficiency and outcomes.

One of they key leaders behind OSF Healthcare's digital transformation and strategy talks about how the health system is innovating to advance access to care while staying ahead of uncertainty. Michelle Conger is quoted in this article highlighting the take aways from a recent roundtable discussion of industry leaders.

This interview with WGIL Radio Host Will Stevenson features a doctor with OSF HealthCare Illinois Neurological Institutewho explains Dystonia, a disease that took the life of life of retired Sesame Street performer/puppeteer Caroll Spinner who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Dr. Dronacharya (“Dron”) Lamichhane says people may have it, and not even know it.

This story in The Telgraph newspaper in Alton, Illinois highlights a weekend gathering of the Sisters to commemorate the founding of the order in Germany and expansoin to six states in the US and eight other countries including Cuba, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia and Tanzania.

OSF HealthCare Audiologist Laurel Donaldson explains noise-induced hearing loss in children is on the rise and parents need to make sure they pay attention to detect when their child might be struggling. Also, hearing loss in older adults can be so gradual and many adults don't get their hearing tested regularly. Eventually hearing loss can impact understanding and can even lead to falls and hospitalizations.

As recreational marijuana becomes legal on January 1, employers are looking to be prepared. A panel of experts at OSF’s Jump Trading and Simulation Center told a group of business leaders Monday to begin adjusting their drug policies now, not later.

Health care leaders joined Illinois lawmakers to discuss the state of hospital transformation in the state. Ken Beutke, President, OSF HealthCare Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, joined the discussion and highlighted the successful transformation of OSF HealthCare Center for Health-Streator.

This story features a Q and A with Jen Hopwood who started her career at OSF HealthCare 21 years ago as a bedside nurse in the intermediate medical-surgical unit at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria. Today, Hopwood is chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services and she discusses what makes a good leader and how to advance into leadership roles by seizing opportunities.

OSF HealthCare Chief Financial Officer Mike Allen joins other CFOs in discussing the importance of patient engagement , proviing a more consumer-driven, retail-like experience with price transparency in the transition to value-based care .

This story highlights how OSF HealthCare responded with innovative approaches to help deaf patients have a better experience.

This story focuses on how OSF HealthCare is using data and community partnerships to come up with community-based solutions to barriers individuals face to good health such as poverty, transportation, and access to healthy food. It features interviews with Innovation leaders Sarah de Ramirez and Joe Garrison who explain some of the early solutions that have come from collaborating with community partners.

OSF HealthCare will serve as a clinical partner on a four-year, $2.75 million dollar grant designed to increase the number of nurse practitioners who practice in rural and underserved communities throughout Illinois, by promoting a natural transition from the student role to practicing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) into these areas.

Dr. John Vozenilek talks about how the recent Jump ARCHES expansion will usher in the future of health care—a future that will include at-home assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, robots, mobile sensors and remote patient monitoring.

Noted industry publication Becker's Hospital Review interviews OSF HealthCare CIO Jim Mormann about cybersecurity, innovation and other challenges in health care IT.

This story highlights some early pioneers in using Virtual Reality for higher ed curriculum that lends itself to the immersive technology. Quoted in this story is Dr. Mathew Bramlet, pediatric cardiologist and physician at OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, and director of advanced imaging and modeling at Jump Simulation, a collaboration between the hospital and college.

OSF HealthCare Chief Financial Officer Michael Allen is named among Becker's Hospital Review's CFOs to Know for 2019.

Enduvo is the early commercial product to come out of Jump ARCHES, a part of OSF Innovation that supports collaboration between engineers from the University of Illinois College of Engineering and health care providers at OSF HealthCare and University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria. This story explains how the company has raised additional revenue to further expand industries using the platform for their training and education purposes.

This is a letter to the editor of the Riverbender in Alton, Illinois in which OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony's Medical Center President Ajay Pathak joins with American Cancer Society regional leaders to recruit volunteers to drive cancer patients to appointments and treatment. Even though OSF Saint Anthony's provides comprehensive services right there in Alton, still some patients are challenged by having no way to get to the critical services they need.

This story highlights how OSF HealthCare Saint Luke Medical Center Community Relations Coordinator Carrie Boelens served with the greatest care and love, using her keen detective skills to dig into a letter that was sent to a patient 50 years ago but only arrived recently -- and from California no less. Boelens was able to track down the children who wrote the Get Well card to a patient so long ago that the hospital underwent two name changes as well as a complete new construction.

In this Q and A for Becker's Healthcare, OSF HeatlhCare Chief Strategy Officer, Michelle Conger discusses the journey towards using digital technology to become more patient-centric and to expand the experience of healthcare delivery.

A longtime OSF partner, Health Catalyst, is one of the first digital health care start-ups to go public, helping show the long-term belief in digital transformation to improve health care. Learn more in this Wall Street Journal story showing how improved data management is helping OSF and others.

Dr. Asif Quyyum, colorectal surgeon, appeared on the WMBD-TV (Peoria, IL) morning show to discuss colorectal cancer, the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in men and women combined in the United States.

Michelle Conger, the Chief Strategy Officer for OSF HealthCare, joins the Oliver Wyman Health Podcast to talk innovation. In this episode Sam Glick, Partner in the Health & Life Sciences practice at Oliver Wyman, chats with Conger about how a dual focus on virtual reality and medical training is shaping the future state of innovation.

This story from a professional journal outlines how OSF HealthCare has partnered with Cancer IQ, a company that offers user-friendly cancer screening tools to replace long paper forms and quickly identify patients eligible for genetic counseling or additional imaging or testing. This information came from a presentation at a recent annual meeting of Community Cancer Centers.