The awards, which were announced Feb. 13 at HIMSS19 in Orlando, Fla., recognize “health and life sciences organizations and their technology solution partners that are achieving innovation excellence with a Microsoft-based solution.”
The winners in each category are:
Artificial intelligence and machine learning: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and KenSci — working to help better understand patients at risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Empower your care teams and employees: Vision Source, LP and Kno2 — working to create an interoperability network for its locations offering care for diabetics.
Engage your patients and enable personalized care: Premera Blue Cross — developer of Premera Scout, a virtual assistant helping users optimize their health plans.
Optimize clinical operational effectiveness and improve outcomes: Prediction of Patient Placement team at Boston Children’s Hospital — working on predicting emergency department admissions using POPP forecasting tool.
Outstanding innovation: Chicago-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and DNAnexus — developers of St. Jude Cloud, a secure cloud-based data-sharing and collaboration platform.
Transform the care continuum and reimagine healthcare: Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine — developer of the Precision Medicine Analytics Platform.
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