2012 Innovator Awards

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Every day hospitals are applying technology in new and innovative ways, finding creative solutions that help serve their patients, staff and communities. We want to hear about your innovative project and how it helped make life at your hospital better. Tell us how you tackled problems with bundled payments, patient portals, EHRs, coding, capital budgeting, transitions, readmissions, and scheduling. Whether it was an in-hospital solution, or a team effort with other hospitals, systems, or groups of providers, your novel approach could be a winner. »Read about previous winners

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine will salute innovation in the use of information technology by U.S. hospitals and health systems with the Most Wired Innovator Awards. Winners will be mentioned in the July issue of H&HN, profiled in a feature story in H&HN's August issue, and recognized at the 2012 Leadership Summit.

Judging

An independent panel of CIOs and other leaders selected by the editors of H&HN will judge all entries solely based on the information provided in the essay. Judges will evaluate submissions on the following criteria:

  • Universality and achievement of stated business objectives
  • Creativity and uniqueness of concept
  • Impact on the organization
  • Scope of solution
  • Stage of implementation
  • Technical creativity