inHealthBlocks enables patient participation in Johns Hopkins clinical research studies that use wearable devices to remotely and securely collect biological and biochemical signal data. inHealthBlocks is a digital platform designed and developed by the Johns Hopkins Technology Innovation Center (TIC) in partnership with Microsoft to provide a seamless and more…

Review highlights of the important work completed by the Technology Innovation Center over the past year. The Technology Innovation Center (TIC) rapidly laid a technology foundation to keep the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System running when the pandemic hit. As the pandemic rolled into 2021, the TIC…

The Vaccine Management System (VMS) serves the needs of Johns Hopkins health services teams when vaccines rolled out and tracking was required. Frontline Johns Hopkins medical providers received their first COVID-19 vaccine shots in December 2020. In early 2021, as vaccines became more widely available, Clarence Lam, at the time…

A tool that helps participants understand the mental health care they need while directly connecting them to providers accepting new patients. The Johns Hopkins Healthcare Solutions team identified access to mental healthcare services as a key need arising from the pandemic. Healthcare Solutions — which leverages Johns Hopkins science to…

Mortality Review is a system-wide program designed and developed by the Johns Hopkins Technology Innovation Center (TIC) to review patient deaths and improve clinical care. The TIC developed the Mortality Review program with the Armstrong Institute to facilitate review of all Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS) patient deaths. Every time…

The new IT@JH website contains information about leadership, careers, governance, help and support, and services. — The IT@JH website was originally developed as a resource for customers and technical users. The site contained a plethora of content that had not been updated for several years. It was difficult to navigate and find information quickly. …

For Ellington West, it was being talked over during a pitch. For Therese Canares, it was the skeptical questions from a banker as she attempted to open a business account. Starting your own business is difficult enough, but being a female founder brings additional unique challenges. It is perhaps especially…

Avhana Health grew its customer base more than 2,000% year over year in 2020, according to co-founder Noah Weiner. The digital health startup was taking off, but Weiner also “saw the writing on the wall” for 2021. “We would either need to join forces with a larger company to support…

The TIC engages over a thousand users to give the Johns Hopkins web portal a user-centric, modern makeover — Developed and maintained by the Johns Hopkins Technology Innovation Center (TIC), myJH is a web portal for Johns Hopkins online tools and resources. An average of 45,000 Johns Hopkins faculty, staff, and students come to the myJH portal website daily to access email, HR tools, cloud services, and other applications…