Our Mission
In the spirit of Christ and the example of Francis of Assisi, the Mission of OSF HealthCare is to serve persons with the greatest care and love in a community that celebrates the Gift of Life.
For a long time, femtech has been considered a niche, but a growing number of tech companies are hoping to change that narrative.
Healthcare CIOs have been given a great gift for their efforts to deal with the transformation from pay-for-service to pay-for-value -- wearable devices. Strategically minded CIOs will aggressively take action to help their organization leverage this technology for big data analytics and population health management.
CMS advises healthcare providers to create a feedback system to address issues with ICD-10 implementation.
Two executives from a digital diabetes-management start-up discuss the importance of a patient focus and ways innovation is shaping the industry.
Standard, unified medical records will significantly decrease the risk of providing unneeded or dangerous medical care.
1:47 minute video. As the healthcare industry makes the digital shift, healthcare professionals can look to the digitization of other industries for insight ...
Healthcare is notorious for being technophobic, clunky and downright ugly. No one knows this better than Gretchen Wustrack, who is trying desperately to change that.
<br> <br>It can be challenging for executives who come from non-technical backgrounds to understand and keep up with rapidly evolving technology terms. They may have a surface-level und
Health care professionals, patients, and allies across the nation are banding together to promote an understanding of what good medical care can and should be.
Could smartphone apps help improve our health and avoid germ-ridden waiting rooms?
The proliferation of mobile medical devices means providers, payers and even patients are collecting more data than ever before. But do they know what to do with it?
Christian Boucher--Citrix healthcare technology evangelist--is starting a blog series in which he'll discuss what he learns from IT leaders about their experiences.
Amid a transitional period for the healthcare industry, healthcare providers should "connect the dots" between a few key guiding principles to strengthen the care continuum, according to a new whitepaper from the American Hospital Association.
It’s more complicated to create an engaging app than many business managers expect, especially in healthcare, one of the most complex industries. There are often different, opposing forces at work that make the task more challenging.
Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that -- and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports team.
Helping to keep individuals with manageable chronic conditions out of the hospital is a priority of OSF HealthCare.
While robots and computers will probably never completely replace doctors and nurses, machine learning/deep learning and AI are transforming the healthcare industry, improving outcomes, and changing the way doctors think about providing care. Machine learning is improving diagnostics, predicting outcomes, and just beginning to scratch the surface of personalized care. Imagine walking [...]