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OSF HealthCare Implements Curbside Health to Advance Clinical Guidelines & Support Patient Care Excellence

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The partnership will support patient care, increase appropriate clinical standardization, and promote clinical excellence across the continuum of care.

Key Points: 
  • The partnership will support patient care, increase appropriate clinical standardization, and promote clinical excellence across the continuum of care.
  • “Our collaboration with Curbside Health ushers in a new era of innovation and excellence in patient care.
  • With Curbside's state-of-the-art decision support technologies, we empower our healthcare clinicians to deliver consistent, high-quality care across more than 150 care locations of OSF HealthCare, thereby reducing clinical variability, improving patient outcomes and ultimately ensuring every patient ministry-wide receives the exceptional care they deserve.
  • Clinical decision support content includes clinical guidelines, clinical pathways, protocols, policies, algorithms, clinical calculators and more.

OSF Innovation doctor lends expertise to U.S. presidential panel

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

The President's Cancer Panel is a federal advisory committee that reports on barriers to progress in reducing the burden of cancer.

Key Points: 
  • The President's Cancer Panel is a federal advisory committee that reports on barriers to progress in reducing the burden of cancer.
  • This year, the panel is conducting a series of public meetings to discuss the current landscape of patient navigation.
  • OSF HealthCare will soon expand cancer services across its Ministry when the OSF Cancer Institute opens on the campus of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria in February 2024.
  • OSF Innovation was launched in 2016 as a multidisciplinary innovation center focused on internal and external innovation to solve the largest health care challenges.

OSF HealthCare Partners with Summit Venture Studio to License Medical Cart AR App

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

LEHI, UT, PEORIA, Ill. , Oct. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- OSF HealthCare is thrilled to announce a licensing agreement with Summit Venture Studio to commercialize and expand Medical Cart AR, an innovative medical training software developed by OSF Innovation. Medical Cart AR is an augmented reality training application designed to assist health care providers in locating key equipment swiftly during medical emergencies.

Key Points: 
  • OSF HealthCare is thrilled to announce a licensing agreement with Summit Venture Studio to commercialize and expand Medical Cart AR, an innovative medical training software developed by OSF Innovation.
  • Medical Cart AR is an augmented reality training application designed to assist health care providers in locating key equipment swiftly during medical emergencies.
  • LEHI, UT, PEORIA, Ill. , Oct. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- OSF HealthCare is thrilled to announce a licensing agreement with Summit Venture Studio to commercialize and expand Medical Cart AR, an innovative medical training software developed by OSF Innovation .
  • Medical Cart AR is a health care training application designed to facilitate the rapid location of essential medical supplies during emergencies.

OSF Innovation develops AI mortality predictor to help identify those who may benefit most from end-of-life care discussions

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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Health care professionals need that information to ensure that every patient receives their desired end-of-life care.

Key Points: 
  • Health care professionals need that information to ensure that every patient receives their desired end-of-life care.
  • To meet this need, OSF Innovation researchers developed a new AI model to predict death in the 5-90 days after the start of an inpatient admission.
  • Going forward, the team hopes to analyze to what extent the mortality predictions actually prompted care teams to initiate end-of-life planning discussions.
  • OSF Innovation is a collaborative network of different disciplines that designs bold, strategic solutions to advance the future of health care.

OSF transforms frontline education with Elemeno Health's mobile-friendly microlearning solution

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Thursday, August 24, 2023

PEORIA, Ill. and OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OSF HealthCare announced it is expanding use of the Elemeno Health just-in-time microlearning solution as a foundational element in its transformation of clinical learning. OSF Innovation piloted the Elemeno best practices nursing platform last year and has decided to implement it among its 15 hospitals and within ambulatory, hospice, and home care settings.

Key Points: 
  • PEORIA, Ill. and OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OSF HealthCare announced it is expanding use of the Elemeno Health just-in-time microlearning solution as a foundational element in its transformation of clinical learning.
  • "We are transforming education at OSF to meet Mission Partners (employees) where they want to be, and Elemeno is a key technology to accomplish these goals," Wiegand added.
  • "The success of frontline staff is dependent upon the support of their leaders," said Dr. Arup Roy-Burman, Founder and CEO of Elemeno Health.
  • Elemeno Health provides a cloud-based solution that helps healthcare systems empower frontline staff with customized microlearning specific to each team's workflows, locations, and supplies.

Researchers developing mixed-reality training to combat opioid overdose deaths

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

The American Medical Association says more than 105,000 opioid overdose deaths were reported in the United States between December 2021 and December 2022.

Key Points: 
  • The American Medical Association says more than 105,000 opioid overdose deaths were reported in the United States between December 2021 and December 2022.
  • Federal health officials blame the steep increase in opioid overdose deaths, in part, to the rapid growth of highly potent and often deadly fentanyl that can be added to look-alike opioid drugs.
  • The surgeon general recommends more individuals, including family, friends and those personally at risk for opioid overdose, keep on hand and know how to use naloxone, a safe antidote to a suspected overdose.
  • It includes researchers at Illinois State University (ISU) in Normal and Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale, Illinois.

New pulmonary valve benefits quality, length of life

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

The FDA-approved valve consists of a catheter-based stent (called Alterra), an artificial heart valve (SAPIEN 3) and the opportunity to implant the stent and valve without the need for open-heart surgery.

Key Points: 
  • The FDA-approved valve consists of a catheter-based stent (called Alterra), an artificial heart valve (SAPIEN 3) and the opportunity to implant the stent and valve without the need for open-heart surgery.
  • She says this new technology will expand peoples' lives and enhance their quality of life.
  • This current pulmonary valve that is in place allows you to be ready for another less-invasive procedure when the time comes.
  • Dr. Patel and her team administered four pulmonary valves in patients this spring, with two more procedures planned in August.

Beating hearts pump up virtual reality for pre-surgery planning

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Monday, July 24, 2023

Researchers at Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare and Bradley University believe they can make this vision a reality.

Key Points: 
  • Researchers at Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare and Bradley University believe they can make this vision a reality.
  • This change in shape becomes a problem when the muscle of the heart grows abnormally and obstructs its own ability to pump blood out of the heart.
  • Within a year, this project aims to automate, through machine learned algorithms, the conversion of cardiac CTs into virtual reality.
  • The 4D view will enable surgeons to see the beating hearts specific to individual patients.

OSF HealthCare and Abundant Health Acquisition (aha!) announce partnership to streamline access to care

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

PEORIA, Ill., July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OSF HealthCare and Abundant Health Acquisition (aha!)

Key Points: 
  • PEORIA, Ill., July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OSF HealthCare and Abundant Health Acquisition (aha!)
  • This partnership extends the OSF HealthCare and aha!
  • OSF HealthCare has 15 hospitals – 10 acute care, five critical access - with 2,084 licensed beds throughout Illinois and Michigan.
  • OSF Innovation is a collaborative network of different disciplines that designs bold, strategic solutions to advance the future of health care.

Emergency department overcrowding: Can AI, predictive modeling and simulation fix it?

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

PEORIA, Ill., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- It seems almost everyone has a story about how long they had to wait to receive care in an emergency department due to overcrowding. In fact, research shows patient congestion is one of the main factors threatening efficiency, safety and quality of care.

Key Points: 
  • William Bond, MD, is an emergency department (ED) physician at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois.
  • He also directs simulation research at Jump Simulation , a collaborative effort between OSF and the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria (UICOMP).
  • The project is called: STREAM-ED: Simulation to Refine, Enhance and Adapt Management of Emergency.
  • They'll also use data about physical resources and providers, including nurses and technicians who deliver assessments or care in different pods within the emergency department.