Academic medical center operating 7 hospitals and 49,000+ staff across Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Penn Medicine is a large integrated health system anchored in Philadelphia, operating seven hospitals plus hundreds of outpatient sites and home-care services. The tech stack reveals a healthcare-standard architecture: Epic for EHR, Azure and AWS for compute, VMware for virtualization, and a security layer (CyberArk, Venafi) typical of regulated organizations managing patient data. Hiring is heavily weighted toward clinical roles (healthcare department dominates at 1,285 positions), with secondary focus on revenue-cycle operations and compliance—signaling active work on financial reconciliation and regulatory hurdles that appear consistently in their pain-point list.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Psychotherapy Services, Regulatory Affairs Director, Medical Director, Director of Radiation Therapy, Operations Director
Penn Medicine is an academic health system comprising the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the Perelman School of Medicine, operating across Pennsylvania and New Jersey with seven hospitals: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Pennsylvania Hospital, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Doylestown Health. The organization employs more than 49,000 team members and delivers care through hospital inpatient services, hundreds of outpatient sites, and home-care operations. Key clinical specialties include cancer, cardiac, transplant, neurosurgery, neurology, surgery, ophthalmology, women's health, orthopaedics, and otolaryngology. The organization combines research and education (Perelman School of Medicine trains future clinicians and scientists) with direct patient care across the region.
Epic and Epic Systems. The stack also includes VMware for infrastructure, Azure and AWS for cloud compute, and PACS for medical imaging. CyberArk and Venafi manage security and certificate infrastructure.
Active projects focus on EHR optimization, revenue-cycle implementation, patient experience improvement, and regulatory compliance (accreditation, financial reconciliation, full reimbursement). Pain points include meeting patient satisfaction targets, managing high patient volumes, and operational/financial performance.
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