Center for Connected Medicine
Welcome
When you walk through the doors at the Center for Connected Medicine, you are stepping into the future of healthcare. The visionaries who founded the Center in 2009 believe that healthcare must push beyond reform and, instead, transform into a system that facilitates communication, collaboration and coordination among all stakeholders along the care continuum.
Serving as a global thought leader, the Center for Connected Medicine is defining the scope and scale of this critical transformation. But it is dedicated to more than promoting an idea. The Center is developing a viable blueprint for innovative patient-centered and population health models using strategically integrated health information technology (HIT) solutions. Housed in the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, the 14,000-square-foot facility was established by four internationally recognized founding partners—Alcatel-Lucent, IBM, UPMC and Verizon—that were joined by nine strategic partners. Collectively, these industry leaders represent virtually all facets of the HIT community.
Visitors to the Center experience the outcome of today’s fragmented approach to healthcare, and are introduced to emerging technologies that have great promise as connectivity enablers (such as telemedicine, broadband communications, data networks, artificial intelligence and voice recognition).
To lead the industry towards transformation, the Center is committed to:
- Demonstrating the practical application of highly effective delivery and practice models;
- Addressing the challenges of efficient workflow—across an organization and beyond its walls;
- Identifying components critical to the objectives of patient-centric care and population health initiatives; and
- Championing the pivotal role strategically deployed HIT plays in the transformation of healthcare.