Articles tagged with 'innovate' | OSF HealthCare

(Peoria, IL) July 31, 2020 —In the early days of the pandemic, hospitals faced a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), especially N95 respirator masks. As COVID-19 cases rebound across the nation and we face another potential shortage, the...

Sometimes seeing is believing. That’s what Shannon Egli hopes when it comes to how contaminating a cough can be. “It’s just people learning about the bacteria that’s in their environment and how it can affect them. And even though you can’t see it...

While interviewing for a job, Jeff Deaver of Pekin, Illinois saw a flyer for one of the STEAM courses offered through OSF Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center even before he was hired as a performance improvement specialist there. He thought,...

OSF HealthCare announces the opening of its newest OSF Urgo location at 853 W. Jackson Plaza in Morton, Illinois. This is the 14th urgent care clinic operated by OSF HealthCare, and the fifth in the Peoria area, with other clinics in Peoria, East Peo...

Seventeen research projects are sharing nearly $800,000 in funding through the Jump ARCHES research and development program. The Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (Jump ARCHES) program is a partnership betw...

Learning at home has become the new norm and as the end of the school year approaches, OSF HealthCare and its partners have created a new Jump STEAM at Home curriculum that will allow for more offerings and expansion of learning for kids beyond Centr...

While many of us are working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Shannon Egli’s (pronounced EGG-lee) office is his car. Egli is an OSF HealthCare pandemic health worker (PHW). He and his PHW counterparts hit the road every morning to deliver care...

First-Light USA, manufacturer of portable, tactical lighting solutions, is excited to announce the delivery of thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer to OSF HealthCare. In response to immediate needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the First-Li...

OSF HealthCare is launching a Pandemic Health Worker Program (PHWP) that will serve individuals with COVID-19 symptoms. Through a contract with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the PHWP is designed to protect the well-being ...

OSF Ventures, the corporate investment arm of OSF HealthCare, joined in a $16 million Series B funding round in SilverCloud Health, provider of accessible, scalable, digital behavioral health care solutions. Funding will be used to expand the Ireland...

OSF HealthCare has launched a Pandemic Response Fundraising campaign to ensure it is successful in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. OSF has taken unprecedented measures to respond to the outbreak, including the launch of d...

Governor J.B. Pritzker lauded OSF HealthCare for leading the way in digital health care transformation through its telehealth program that has delivered care to 70,000 patients in just the last three months of 2019. Pritzker visited OSF HealthCare’s ...

Third year medical student Caroline Lewis still remembers what it felt like when she suffered what she thought was a life-changing injury at age 15 while playing basketball in high school. The University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria (UICOM...

Technology hub will support 48,000 new economy jobs, with $19 billion economic impact over the next 10 years University of Illinois Board of Trustees Chairman Edwards and his wife also give $10 Million to University, half of which will go to IIN ...

Fourteen research projects are sharing $1.9 million 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 Hea...

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...