The March issue of Allegheny County Medical Society's (ACMS's) Bulletin featured an op-ed by Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) CEO and President Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, highlighting the scope of patient safety work being done by th...
Project & Program Updates
On February 29, the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) and the Pittsburgh Technology Council convened 130 Pittsburgh leaders for the Safety Innovation Summit to discuss the region's long history of safety accomplishments and ...
The November 16 RAPS Salon highlighted some of the patient safety research at the University of Pittsburgh and how it is working with UPMC to become a laboratory for research, discovery, and commercialization of patient safety innovati...
The October 11 Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Research and Development Salon convened stakeholders from across the Pittsburgh region and beyond to highlight how current policy recommendations at the national level could grea...
Read the op-ed "Wolk Feinstein's Viewpoint: It Is Time to Revolutionize the Last Unsafe Industry" published October 13 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO, Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD&nbs...
Each year, the Pittsburgh Technology Council hosts the TEQ Magazine State of the Industry Report Reveal party, highlighting what's in the forefront of the region's innovation sector. Not surprisingly, the panel at this year's event on ...
The August 23 Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Research and Development Salon convened innovators, researchers, and technology entrepreneurs from across the Pittsburgh region to highlight regional research initiatives at Carne...
The RAPS Seed Grant Program is now accepting proposals for multidisciplinary Research & Development teams, start-ups or tech companies in the Pittsburgh region that are developing, testing, or adopting an autonomous solution to pre...
The first "hybrid" meeting of the Pittsburgh Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Advisory Group was held May 2, gathering leaders from academia, health care, technology, and industry to inform the forward movement of the RAPS ini...
FortyX80 and the Pittsburgh Technology Council (PTC) will continue to serve as critical collaborators with the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation in advancing the Regional Autonomous Patient Safe...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Distribution Committee (JHF) approved a $300,000 one-year grant to the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) to support patient safety research and development in the region via the second phas...
In a recent post on The Allegheny County Medical Society's ACMS Insights, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) CEO and President Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, outlined the efforts of PRHI to focus on policy change at the federal l...
Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD was recently a guest on the Pittsburgh Technology Council radio show "TechVibe" with hosts Audrey Russo and Jonathan Kersting to discuss the Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Initiative and the potenti...
Read the RAPS Initiative Overview PDF. The Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) initiative launch event was held February 24 at Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the Pittsburgh Technology Council, convening regional s...