University Times

UPMC ranked 5th on this year’s InformationWeek 500 — a list of the nation’s top technology innovators from across all industries. The global health enterprise also was honored with the Healthcare Innovation Award for creating a system that allows radiologists and physicians to access imaging studies from across UPMC.

UPMC rose from No. 9 last year and has made the list for nine consecutive years, joining such well-known companies as Vanguard Group, Merck and Colgate-Palmolive. The honorees are featured on InformationWeek.com, available at www.informationweek.com/1278/index.jhtml.

As one example of UPMC’s technology performance, InformationWeek focused on the health system’s development of a standards-based platform called SingleView for providing radiologists and other clinicians with a unified view of a patient’s imaging studies from across UPMC’s 20 hospitals and 30 imaging centers.

“For 22 years, the InformationWeek 500 has honored the most innovative users of business technology,” said InformationWeek editor in chief Rob Preston. “As we start to emerge from the worst recession in decades, the IT focus is now on driving growth — new sources of revenue, new relationships with customers, even new business models. This year’s ranking placed special emphasis on those companies and business technology executives leading that charge.”

UPMC long has been recognized as a leader in using technology to improve the quality and efficiency of health care. It has been named one of the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems in the United States by Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, for 12 consecutive years.

It also recently was named one of the Top 25 Connected Healthcare Facilities by Health Imaging & IT.