For the seventh consecutive year, Penn Medicine’s Information Services (IS) have been recognized on the Healthcare’s Most Wired list compiled by CHIME (the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives). It is the 15th time overall that Penn Medicine IS has made the list that recognizes hospitals and health systems that embrace and maximize technology to support the delivery of care.

This year, Penn Medicine achieved Level 8 status; it is among the organizations that “have deployed technologies and strategies … to help them analyze their data and are starting to achieve meaningful clinical and efficiency outcomes,” according to the official designation.

Penn Medicine IS has taken a critical role in the research conducted by faculty in the health system, providing and supporting the technologies required to produce high-end, meaningful results. That includes the expansion and relaunch of the Penn Data Store, and it has been a key player in the expansion of precision medicine into patient care, helping to integrate things like genetic results into the electronic health record.

The CHIME recognition comes in the same year that Penn Medicine achieved the highest certification from HIMSS (the Health Information Management Systems Society) Analytics.