Articles tagged with 'innovate' | OSF HealthCare

A pilot program using the LifeFlow® device to rapidly infuse septic pediatric patients with fluids is showing promising results and OSF HealthCare will likely expand use to include children who are experiencing low blood pressure because of trauma, s...

When a patient recently came into an OSF HealthCare rural health care clinic with stomach issues, it turns out, there was a lot more going on than just a simple stomach ache. Physician Assistant Mandy Robinson learned from a new screening tool tha...

OSF HealthCare Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of The Charles and Sue Thomas Autism Endowment for Innovative Solutions, made possible through a $1 million gift from Charles and Sue Thomas, from Rockford, Ill. The gift will enable gr...

Governor J.B. Pritzker today joined leaders from around Greater Peoria to celebrate the Peoria Innovation Hub, a world-class innovation facility coming to downtown Peoria. The Peoria Innovation Hub, funded through a $10 million grant that is part of ...

Companies such as 23andme and Ancestory.com are becoming more popular as people begin to consider how genetics can influence their health. But providers, including OSF HealthCare, are paying much more attention to a patient’s zip code these days. ...

OSF Ventures has joined four other organizations this week in supporting Series ‘A’ funding of $7.3 million for Washington, DC-based health care technology start-up Socially Determined which offers data analytics to identify patients who face barrier...

BrightWater Medical, Inc. (BrightWater), the manufacturer of a groundbreaking stent, announced that it has successfully completed the sale of the organization to Utahbased Merit Medical Systems, Inc. OSF Ventures has been at the forefront with Bright...

Dr. Bob Smouse, an interventional radiologist from Dunlap, Illinois turned medical start-up CEO, says partnering with OSF Ventures helped him take an idea scrawled on a napkin to development of a device that will help patients across the globe with t...

Students hand-selected from across the curriculum at the University of Illinois in Chicago are advancing innovative solutions to solve the loneliness epidemic, particularly for older rural residents and they’ve come up with a solution for bringing th...

OSF Ventures has joined a $35 million funding round to support a start-up that’s developing a breakthrough handheld, AI ultrasound device that will allow health care providers to make critical, real-time diagnostic decisions. OSF Ventures, the inv...

Faculty in the STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and other leaders at Marquette Catholic High School in Alton, Illinois toured the Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center in Peoria this week, to see the future of health care...

OSF Ventures, the corporate investment arm of OSF HealthCare, has launched a second venture capital fund of $75 million to continue its strategy of supporting new technology, devices and services that offer improved and more cost efficient health car...

OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s (U of I) Grainger College of Engineering are growing their partnership to create the future of community wellness and health care by harnessing creativity and applying it to social a...

“We’ve never been here before,” said Western Illinois farmer Matthew Goedeke. He’s talking about this year’s unprecedented slow planting season in which many farmers waited past critical planting dates for the state’s two biggest crops, corn and soyb...

Three key leaders for OSF Innovation have been selected to present this fall at the American Medical Association’s ChangeMedEd 2019 conference which brings together leaders who are transforming how physicians and residents are trained. The leaders...

OSF Ventures, a part of OSF Innovation, is investing in Paradigm Diagnostics, a leading precision medicine company that is making advancements in cancer diagnostics. The corporate investment arm of OSF HealthCare has decided to strategically inves...

Eleven research projects are sharing nearly $810,600 in funding through the Jump ARCHES research and development program. The Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (Jump ARCHES), is a partnership between OSF He...

The Oliver Wyman Podcast Audio Is it Impactful or Just "Cool"? Michelle says that within the past two years, the perception of “innovation” at OSF HealthCare has evolved from considering it as merely an intangible idea, to defining it as a phys...

A new collaboration between Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare and Redox, based in Madison, Wisconsin, will allow the health system to effectively integrate pilot programs and deploy digital health solutions to improve health for OSF HealthCare co...

What do you think is the medical invention that changed the world? That’s the question being posed to visitors of the Riverfront Museum in Peoria, Illinois as it hosts an exhibition, “10 Medical Inventions That Changed the World,” celebrating medi...

OSF Ventures, the corporate investment arm of OSF HealthCare, is joining other health care systems and strategic investors from within the healthcare industry as a limited partner in Boston-based LRVHealth. As part of LRVHealth’s collaborative innova...

With more than 113, 000 people waiting for organ transplants in the U.S., the man known as “The Father of Tissue Engineering” is working feverishly to find a way to produce organs outside of the body for life-saving transplants. Dr. Joseph Vacanti...

Using simulation in health care is becoming more and more popular as a way to provide innovative learning experiences and to improve competency among health care providers.  Jump Simulation, a part of OSF Innovation, recently became one of only 16...

You’ve heard the expression ‘You don’t know what you don’t know’ and that certainly applies to high school students who are considering career options, particularly in the rapidly changing health care field. A select group of students from Wheelin...

Mackenzia Jackson had an “ah-hah” moment during a simulated heart valve replacement on a cadaver while participating in a first-ever OSF HealthCare Jump Simulation, University of Illinois College of Medicine (UICOMP) Pre-Med Surgical Immersion course...

OSF HealthCare, the University of Illinois System, Illinois Central College, and the Greater Peoria Economic Development Council are joining forces to develop a Peoria Innovation Hub. Having already identified space in the Thomas Building at 201 SW...

The OSF HealthCare Foundation recently received a $1 million gift which will be used to support neuroscience innovation focused on assistive technologies, improving access to care, and aiding in earlier diagnosis to benefit patients with ALS (Lou Geh...

The failure to recognize excessive blood loss during childbirth is one of the leading causes of maternal death in the country, according to the Joint Commission, which accredits hospital systems and programs in the United States. OSF Ventures, the co...

The OSF HealthCare Foundation has received a $1 million gift from Ed and Ann Rapp. The gift will be used to support neuroscience innovation focused on assistive technologies, improving access to care, and aiding in earlier diagnosis to benefit patien...

It’s a pretty good bet that nobody wants to be admitted to the hospital unless absolutely necessary, and once discharged they don’t want to be readmitted. The reality across the U.S. is one in five Medicare enrollees is readmitted to the hospita...