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Meet Chart Hero, an AI tool that surfaces key information from patient records
Electronic health records hold critical information, but finding what matters can be overwhelming. Chart Hero, a solution being developed by Penn Medicine's Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation, uses AI to synthesize patient data across many components and present it for clinician review. By simplifying data navigation, Chart Hero empowers providers to spend less time searching and more time caring for patients.
Homegrown AI-assisted solution drives faster, easier fax processing and consent collection
An artificial intelligence–powered system developed at Penn Medicine’s Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation has tripled the speed of fax processing and cut a full week off the new-patient intake process, freeing up thousands of staff hours.
A PATH to hospital at home
An innovative Penn Medicine program, Practical Alternative to Hospitalization, showed the impact of offering certain patients acute care in the comfort of their homes instead of being admitted to the hospital. Learnings from the PATH program are informing a new Hospital at Home program launching in 2026.