Key Highlights
- OSF HealthCare is piloting CliniPane, a clinical intelligence platform that surfaces patient data trends directly within clinician workflows.
- The platform integrates with electronic health records to support faster, data-informed decisions without alerts or added clicks.
- Early physician feedback suggests CliniPane could improve care coordination, patient engagement, and long-term health outcomes.
OSF HealthCare is testing a new clinical intelligence platform designed to help medical providers quickly identify meaningful trends in patient health data without disrupting care delivery. The platform, called CliniPane, was developed through OSF Innovation and is currently being piloted with a small group of primary care physicians.
CliniPane integrates directly with a patient’s electronic health record (EHR), presenting relevant insights at the point of care. Health system leaders say the goal is to reduce information overload while enabling clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions during patient visits.
Built Through OSF’s Innovation Ecosystem
According to Roopa Foulger, vice president of Digital Innovation Development at OSF Innovation, the health system’s internal innovation ecosystem played a key role in bringing the platform to life.
Development was supported through Jump ARCHES and Community Health Advocacy grants, along with academic research partnerships with the University of Illinois at Chicago and Urbana-Champaign.
Equally important was early collaboration with clinicians to identify what data is most useful in real-world care settings. That groundwork allowed developers to focus on practical clinical needs before expanding the platform’s capabilities.
A New Way to Surface Clinical Insights
OSF Innovation Senior Fellow Jonathan Handler, MD, who helped launch the initiative, said traditional clinical decision-support tools often rely on disruptive alerts or buried menus.
Rather than generating notifications, CliniPane displays visual trend indicators such as lab values moving in the wrong direction, directly within the clinician’s field of view. The data is tailored to the provider’s role and the specific patient encounter, helping clinicians detect issues earlier and adjust treatments more efficiently.
Designed for Scale, Security, and Patient Engagement
Developers designed CliniPane as a flexible platform capable of integrating additional data sources over time, including remote patient monitoring systems, wearable devices, and AI-driven tools. OSF’s IT teams worked closely with developers to ensure patient data security and controlled access.
Physicians participating in the pilot say the platform’s visual trends may also enhance patient engagement by making complex data easier to understand during visits.
OSF leaders believe CliniPane could eventually support multiple specialties and become a standard tool for improving clinical efficiency and patient outcomes across the healthcare system.