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 | 10:36 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 | 10:29 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 | 03:26 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.