University of Maryland Medical System’s iHarbor Innovation Center Named as 2025 Modern Healthcare Honoree

iHarbor recognized for Gallion, a cloud-based supply chain management solution developed at UMMS

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) and its iHarbor Innovation Center have been named as one of the distinguished recipients of Modern Healthcare’s 2025 Innovators Awards, celebrating both outstanding individuals and organizations leading health care innovation.

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The honor recognizes iHarbor for its development of Gallion, a cloud-based, digital supply chain application that redefines the management of bill-only transactions by digitizing and standardizing workflows, enhancing accuracy, compliance, and efficiency.

“Discovery is one of our System’s values. We pride ourselves on innovation and being on the forefront of transformative change in health care,” said Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, the System’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “We are honored that Modern Healthcare has recognized Gallion’s impact in reducing costs and improving patient care.”

Gallion seamlessly integrates with electronic health record (EHR) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, automating critical tasks such as consumption tracking, charges and contract compliance. Before Gallion's implementation in 2021 automated these processes, UMMS relied on a manual labor-intensive paper-based process that had the potential for errors and inefficiencies. Data from the deployment of Gallion across UMMS' 11 hospitals shows significant operational improvements; completion time has been reduced by 75% and the defect/error rate has lowered from 18% to just 3%.

Modern Healthcare’s Innovators program recognizes leaders and organizations driving innovation that improves care, achieves measurable results and contributes to the clinical and financial goals of the organization.

“Artificial intelligence, the use of data and technology investments are transforming healthcare — streamlining workflows, improving patient care and creating new business opportunities,” said Mary Ellen Podmolik, editor-in-chief of Modern Healthcare. “The ambitious work underway by our 2025 Innovators Awards’ honorees is producing exciting results that will lead to better results for patients and these organizations that are tackling the industry’s biggest challenges.”

iHarbor, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UMMS, is now bringing Gallion to the market, enabling other hospitals and health systems to realize similar benefits. The enterprise platform offers robust analytics, giving supply chain teams unparalleled insight into cost management, contract competitiveness and compliance, and clinical quality outcomes.

“Gallion streamlines processes in supply chain and for surgical procedures and empowers health systems with an innovative and integrated solution,” said Warren D’Souza, PhD, MBA, UMMS’ Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer. “Better management of high cost supplies allows for optimized spend management and ultimately a better experience for the health care team and patients.”

“Through projects like Gallion, the iHarbor Innovation Center is helping to transform health care delivery across our System and beyond,” said Guy Henggeler, Vice President, iHarbor Strategy and Operations.

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About the University of Maryland Medical System

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

About iHarbor

The iHarbor Innovation Center at the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) focuses on solving complex but common problems in health care. iHarbor is reimagining health care delivery, operations and administration — bringing to life transformational solutions that dramatically improve health care outcomes, efficiency, quality and value. These solutions revolutionize treatment and bring superior experiences to patients, clinicians and administrators alike. iHarbor develops products and solutions that improve the health of patients and create more optimal environments to deliver and receive care.

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