Articles tagged with 'innovate' | OSF HealthCare

OSF is expanding hospital-based innovation hubs to leverage ideas that create solutions to transform health care, leading to lower costs and better patient outcomes and experiences....

OSF Jump Simulation Educational Operations Director Nikki Delinski ranks in the Top 5 Emerging Training Leaders by Training, a leading national industry publication....

OSF OnCall Digital Hospital welcomed its first patient earlier this month and provided him with hospital-level care at home where he could be with his wife and daughter....

OSF Ventures , the investing arm of OSF HealthCare, has joined a $75 million series B investment in Digital Diagnostics, a company bringing AI to health care....

OSF HealthCare will leverage its innovative new care models and build on experience serving older, frail adults in their homes and community through a state initiative....

New research from OSF Innovation and engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign could lead to a better way to triage and care for patients with neurological symptoms....

OSF Innovation will have a booth at the STEAM Expo at the state fair in Springfield. Stop by for a free STEAM kit with hands-on activities Aug. 17-21....

OSF Innovation has launched a primary care pilot to use  high-tech equipment to test patients with diabetes for diabetic retinopathy, the number one cause of blindness....

Leadership of OSF Ventures, the corporate investing arm of OSF HealthCare, is transitioning from inaugural founder Stan Lynall. As VP for Venture investments, Mayank Taneja will now oversee a $250 million portfolio....

OSF OnCall leaders say virtual urgent care is a great option this summer for minor illness and injuries, especially if you're away from home but want an OSF HealthCare provider....

The first training class for digitally-enabled community health workers has just graduated and is ready to help individuals in underserved communities improve their health....

A newly-published study from OSF HealthCare researchers found targeted interventions and use of digitally-enabled community health workers can  improve mammogram rates for economically disadvantaged women....

OSF HealthCare is partnering with the University of Illinois Chicago to develop an algorithm to interface with school records and identify students at risk for mental health issues. ...

The latest innovation-driven project involving OSF HealthCare Mission Partners sees nurses solve a series of puzzles to deliver life-saving treatment to a manikin patient....

Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare is hosting a virtual job fair to hire certified nursing assistants (CNAs), registered nurses (RNs), advanced practice providers (APPs), and physicians for its OSF OnCall Digital Hospital. The “digital hospital at...

OSF HealthCare and its partner for Acute Hospital Care at Home will provide a simulation for federal lawmakers to show that level of home/remote care is safe and cost effective....

Eleven research projects are sharing slightly more than $700,000 through the Jump ARCHES research and development program. Among the projects are efforts to use blockchain technology to reward healthy behaviors, develop a machine learning algorithm t...

Research reveals $100 billion a year is spent on health care that is only necessary because individuals don’t follow medical advice. For example, patients with chronic illnesses are estimated to comply with medication schedules only 50% of the time. ...

Some therapy patients are getting an out-of-this-world experience – under the watchful eyes of their therapists. New virtual reality (VR) technology called REAL VR is marrying high tech activities with traditional therapy needs.REAL VR provides VR th...

“It’s about pushing ourselves to meet them (patients) where we can, but setting realistic expectations that telehealth can’t be all things to all patients," OSF Vice President of Digital Care Brandi Clark told health leaders during a virtual online s...

Like many of us, Kelli Ballard, a Washington, Illinois, school administrator was hoping after a tumultuous 2020, that 2021 would be a better year. It didn’t quite turn out that way. In January  of last year, just as the new school semester was beginn...

Michelle Conger, Chief Strategy Officer and CEO of OSF OnCall Digital Health, is among Modern Healthcare’s 2022 class of Top 25 Innovators in the nation.Modern Healthcare, the leader in health care business news, research and data, annually recognize...

OSF Ventures, the investment arm of OSF HealthCare and a current CancerIQ user, has joined four other investors in a $14 million Series B financing round to help accelerate growth and implementation of the online screening tool aimed at helping more ...

Nearly $66 million in funding is on its way to improve access to health care for people across many communities in central and northern Illinois living at lower income levels.The Illinois Department of Health and Family Services (HFS) is providing th...

OSF Ventures joins six other investors in a Series A, $12.5 million funding round for a wireless, wearable EEG (brain wave monitor) to detect seizures, even those that are non-convulsive with no obvious signs. Catalyst Health Ventures (CHV) and Genoa...

Cryptocurrency is the new frontier in finance - opening new opportunities and possibilities. From funding budding entrepreneurs to helping Ukraine crowdfund its defense against Russia, it is disrupting finance on a global scale. So too is the platfor...

Senior Vice President for OSF OnCall Digital Health Jennifer Junis advised hospital systems who haven't started or advanced their digital health programs to “just start somewhere” and she stressed using data for a personalized approach will be a key ...

A project led by the OSF Design Lab that leverages data and artificial intelligence to improve childhood vaccination rates has received national recognition as well as $25,000 in funding. The US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), through th...

As OSF HealthCare looks to transform health care by tapping its own Mission Partners (employees), it has chosen an outside partner, High Alpha Innovation, to help rapidly advance ideas from exploration to implementation or commercialization within an...

How many times at work have you declared, “There has got to be a better way!”Knowing that Mission Partners (employees) have great ideas to create a better way, OSF HealthCare launched the OSF Innovation Studio – to take those ideas from exploration t...