Glenn Fala

Glenn Fala

Glenn Fala is the Associate CIO of Application Development at Penn Medicine. He is responsible for custom software development, including web and mobile application development, in support of Penn Medicine’s health system and its Perelman School of Medicine. Glenn has 35 years of software development and management experience spanning the healthcare, insurance, and defense industries.

Health system IT team members build custom software
Success factors for custom developed software solutions
By Glenn Fala | 11:36 am | March 22, 2024
So you've decided to build internally. Now what? Product management partnerships, devoted teams and future planning for technology refreshes will be key.
Healthcare professionals talk in hallway
Agile practices – they’re not just for software development
By Glenn Fala | 11:29 am | September 26, 2022
At Penn Medicine, agile methods have been adopted by a number of information technology teams, including teams that support its enterprise EHR, data analytics, IT operations and systems administration.
Woman in mask checks smartphone for update
How constraints and a sense of urgency can advance innovation
By Glenn Fala | 04:26 pm | April 06, 2021
The development of PennOpen Pass, a symptom tracker and exposure alert system, offers a lesson on how challenging factors can focus the mind, enabling development of new tools that meet communities' needs.

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