Healthcare News & Views

Chicago Tribune features SeamlessMD partnership with Rush University Medical Center

November 30, 2016
By
joshua

Today SeamlessMD was featured in a Chicago Tribune article on Chicago hospitas and health systems using patient engagement technology for surgery.The full article can be found here.Below is an excerpt from the article featuring SeamlessMD's partnership with Rush University Medical Center:

Rush University Medical Center also is just beginning to use an app called SeamlessMD with patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery, also partly in hopes of reducing readmission rates and complications, said Dr. Joanne Favuzza, an assistant professor and colorectal surgeon at Rush."Our hope is we'll be able to track patients' progress, see how they're doing, maybe identify problems early so they don't need to be admitted," Favuzza said.

Chicago Tribune features SeamlessMD partnership with Rush University Medical Center

Posted by:
joshua
on
November 30, 2016

Today SeamlessMD was featured in a Chicago Tribune article on Chicago hospitas and health systems using patient engagement technology for surgery.The full article can be found here.Below is an excerpt from the article featuring SeamlessMD's partnership with Rush University Medical Center:

Rush University Medical Center also is just beginning to use an app called SeamlessMD with patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery, also partly in hopes of reducing readmission rates and complications, said Dr. Joanne Favuzza, an assistant professor and colorectal surgeon at Rush."Our hope is we'll be able to track patients' progress, see how they're doing, maybe identify problems early so they don't need to be admitted," Favuzza said.

Recent news from SeamlessMD

TDP 224: Carle Health's ACMO/CIO Dr. David Lovinger: How a Sculptor Became a CMIO, Why Pop-Ups Are Almost Never the Right Answer, and How Design Thinking Fixes What Informatics Degrees Miss
May 14, 2026

TDP 224: Carle Health's ACMO/CIO Dr. David Lovinger: How a Sculptor Became a CMIO, Why Pop-Ups Are Almost Never the Right Answer, and How Design Thinking Fixes What Informatics Degrees Miss

Learn More
How digital care journeys and AI are redefining the patient experience
May 5, 2026

How digital care journeys and AI are redefining the patient experience

Learn More
TDP 223: ViVE & HIMSS Debrief, A New Father’s View on Digital Health, and How AI Is Exposing Every Crack in the Care Journey
April 9, 2026

TDP 223: ViVE & HIMSS Debrief, A New Father’s View on Digital Health, and How AI Is Exposing Every Crack in the Care Journey

Learn More