The award, inaugurated in 2013, recognises outstanding achievements in the implementation and usage of health information and technology. To further highlight global innovations, Elsevier and HIMSS are broadening the award globally to include Middle East and Europe starting with the inaugural HIMSS UAE (United Arab Emirates) eHealth Week in December 2015.
The award promotes the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) through sharing information and lessons learned in areas such as implementation strategies, financial return on investments and value of the systems to improve patient care and outcomes.
"It has been a great honour to partner with HIMSS over the past three years to recognise excellent use of healthcare information and technology to improve patient care in Asia Pacific," said Gerrit Bos, Executive Vice President & Managing Director for Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America, Elsevier. "We hope that expanding the award to Europe and the Middle East will further help recognise organisations in the other parts of the world to hold them up as models for best practice and stimulate innovations.
Award recipients at HIMSS AsiaPac15 included KK Women's and Children's Hospital (Singapore), National University Hospital (Singapore), Aarogyasri Healthcare Trust (India), St. Stephen's Hospital, Uniting Care Health (Australia) and Shanghai Children's Medical Center (China).
Past recipients include Peking University People's Hospital (mainland China), Shanghai East Hospital (mainland China), Prince of Wales Hospital (Hong Kong), Tseung Kwan O Hospital (Hong Kong), Apollo Hospitals Enterprise (India), Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (Korea), Changi General Hospital (Singapore), National Cancer Centre (Singapore) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Singapore).
The recipients were recognised for health IT excellence, from improving medication supply processes to creating new systems and processes to enhance accessibility of information, all of which ultimately are aimed at improving patient safety and quality of care.
"Our partnership with Elsevier has been very fulfilling and we're happy to take the awards further to encourage more outstanding healthcare entities to step forward and showcase their strategies for improvement," said Stephen Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS.
"Our partnership with Elsevier has been very fulfilling and we're happy to take the awards further to encourage more outstanding healthcare entities to step forward and showcase their strategies for improvement," said Stephen Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS.
"We're confident that the European and Middle East region will have equally impressive submissions for the awards given their history and robust culture of advancing technologies in the medical, science and health arena. At the end of the day, it's good that organisations from all the regions get to learn and benefit from one another."
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Award nominations for HIMSS Middle East UAE eHealth Week have already begun and application is open to all public and private healthcare organisations based in the Middle East. Apply for the award
Award recipients are announced at HIMSS AsiaPac Digital Healthcare Week (6 to 10 September, 2015), HIMSS UAE eHealth Week (7 to 10 December, 2015) and eHealth Week in Amsterdam, Netherlands (6 to 8 June, 2016).
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