For the sixth straight year, Penn Medicine has received Health Care’s Most Wired Award, which recognizes hospitals and health systems that embrace and maximize technology to support the delivery of care. Penn Medicine has won the award every year since 2013 and was also named to the list from 2001 through 2008.

The Most Wired Awards have been given out for 20 years, previously by Hospitals & Health Networks. This year, they were taken over by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and their focus shifted from only highlighting health systems’ technology adoption to now including how well organizations closed technology gaps. The goal is to promote the strategic use of health-care information technology on a global scale.

Senior vice president and chief information officer at Penn Medicine Michael Restuccia identified two main areas where Penn Medicine significantly advanced its technological scope since winning the award last year: patient engagement and the exchange of patient data with external partners.

The award was announced during the CHIME Fall CIO Forum in San Diego. C. William Hanson III, vice president and chief medical information officer at Penn Medicine, accepted the award.