Dr. Bimal Desai, MD, MBI, Assistant Vice President and Chief Health Informatics Officer at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was bestowed with the winner of this year’s healthcare Innovator award at the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies(PACT) annual black-tie gala. Only those company, researcher, or investor who can create a positive impact on the quality, cost, and access to the healthcare is given the award.
Senior Vice President and chief information officer of information services at CHOP, Kisha Hawthrone, MHA, MBA, FACHE, acknowledged Dr. Desai and said “It is an honor to have Dr. Desai’s work recognized. He and his team have taken on the challenge of better connecting our patients, doctors, and the CHOP Care Network through technology and innovations in telemedicine.”
Dr. Desai has helped to create the hospital’s new digital health program under the guidance of CHOP’s president and CEO Madeline Bell. The Program is organized into four overarching themes:
- Care Anywhere: allowing clinicians to use telemedicine and personal devices to connect directly with patients.
- Engage and connect: rethinking how clinical teams connect with patient families and focusing on motivating healthcare teams to collaborate.
- Research Excellence: improving cohort identification, enhancing research enrollment, and creating new methods for data collection and measuring clinical effectiveness.
- Enhanced Partnerships: exploring how Children’s Hospital can connect with healthcare providers outside of the CHOP Care Network, allowing clinicians to access patient information across organizations.
Dr. Desai has even co-founded a company spun out of CHOP’s “Open Canvas” innovation competition in 2014 named as Haystack Informatics. The specialty of this company is that it uses patients’ electronic health records (EHR) and healthcare employees’ patterns of behavior to protect patient privacy.
Want to publish your own articles on DistilINFO Publications?
Send us an email, we will get in touch with you.
The Healthcare Innovation award was presented at PACT’s annual black-tie gala on Thursday, May 18 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
It was founded as ‘the nation’s first pediatric hospital.’ In 1855. It has one of the largest pediatric research programs. CHOP has benefited many children in the entire world through its discoveries and long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives. Apart from this, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought the 546-bed hospital recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents.
For more information, visit the CHOP website.
Date: May 23, 2017