We’re always excited to highlight the achievements of our forward-thinking customers and partners as they advance digital transformation in health. Here are the winners in each of the submission categories:

Engage Your Patients

Family Physicians Group and HealthGrid Corp

Family Physicians Group uses HealthGrid Corp’s mobile patient engagement platform to automate meaningful and personalized interactions that guide patients along their healthcare journey. With the solution, FPG has a consistent touchpoint with patients and drives significant return to its practice.

Empower Your Care Teams

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group and SADA Systems Inc.

Through the use of Skype for Business Online, Dr. Thomas Lee, world-renowned pediatric retina surgeon and Director at The Vision Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, is empowering care teams in third world countries to tackle complex blinding diseases by crowd-sourcing training with experts around the world, disrupting the traditional apprentice training model.

Optimize Your Clinical Operational Effectiveness

CoxHealth and IRIS – Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems

In only six months, CoxHealth has delivered diabetic retinopathy exams into their primary care locations using the IRIS diabetic retinopathy diagnostic solution — increased exam rates from 32% to 72% and finding hundreds of patients with sight threatening disease.

Transform the Care Continuum

Children’s Mercy Kansas City

The Cardiac High Acuity Monitoring Program (CHAMP) connects families to their medical teams using real-time analysis of vital statistics and videos. Since 2014, CHAMP has reduced interstage mortality at Children’s Mercy from 20 percent to zero.

Open

The Intervention Centre, Oslo University Hospital and Sopra Steria

Using a mixed reality environment powered by Microsoft HoloLens, surgeons at Oslo University Hospital can visualize a 3D model of an organ during the planning stages of a surgery to help them improve the outcome.

Thank you to our judges

In addition to acknowledging the innovative solutions of the award recipients, we would like to thank each of the distinguished judges who reviewed this year’s entries:

• Brian Ahier, Digital Health Evangelist, Medicity, an Aetna Company
• Kelly Aldrich, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Center for Medical Interoperability
• Russell P. Branzell, CEO and President, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
• Taren Grom, Founding Partner and Editor, PharmaVOICE magazine
• Ahmad Hashem, CEO, Boston Biopharma, Inc.
• Margaret Mannix, Executive Editor, U.S. News & World Report
• Benjamin Rooks, Managing Director, ST Advisors
• Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist and Advisor, THINK-Health and Health Populi blog
• Jay Srini, Chief Strategist, SCS Ventures
• Victoria L. Tiase, Director of Informatics Strategy, New York Presbyterian Hospital
• Gus Venditto, VP of Content Development, HIMSS Media

What’s your story?

Our contest isn’t the only way to draw attention to your innovative eHealth solution. You can always share your story with us via email, Facebook, or Twitter.

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One thing that really stands out to me about the health industry is how collaborative it is. And HIMSS is a great representation of that collaboration. From caregivers to technology providers, all these people come together to engage in exploratory conversations about how to achieve the triple aim: providing better care to more people at lower costs.

This is an industry that loves to share. Unlike in many other industries, when a health organization innovates, they don’t hide it from competitors. They’re not innovating for competitive advantage, they’ve innovating for the greater good.

When they develop a solution that’s succeeding in helping to improve patients’ health, they want to share it with others. And now with technologies such as the cloud, they’re able to collaborate and scale best practices in ways never before possible.

A great example is the CHAMP app at Children’s Mercy hospital. As nurse Lori Erickson writes in her blog, since they started using their home-monitoring app in March of 2014, none of the babies with single ventricle (SV) heart disease in their Cardiac High Acuity Monitoring Program (CHAMP) has died at home during the high-risk period between their first and second surgeries. Children’s Mercy is sharing the platform with other hospitals. And they’re looking at how the solution can be applied to improve outcomes for other patient populations.

This kind of innovating and sharing for the greater good supported by transformative technologies such as the cloud is what’s helping to drive the evolution of healthcare. Health organizations can use state-of-the art, intelligent computing power to further their initiatives—without having to build up their own datacenter. They can just pay for the cloud services they need—scaling up or down as needed.

It’s exciting to see how our customers are digitally transforming with the intelligence and power of the Microsoft Cloud so they can better engage their patients, empower their care teams, optimize their clinical and operational effectiveness, and transform the care continuum. You can see many examples for yourself at HIMSS17.

You’ll also learn why our customers put their trust in the Microsoft Cloud. Because in order for transformative technology to achieve its potential for empowering better health for all, people need to be able to trust it.

At HIMSS17, I look forward to all the conversations about the art of the possible. How can we work together to shift the health system from a reactive approach focused on treating disease to a proactive approach focused on prevention and keeping people well?

Toward that end, we want to hear your stories. What do you need from technology to help you further the triple aim of increasing care access and quality, while reducing costs? Come by our booth at HIMSS to tell us or share via email, Facebook, or Twitter.

See you in Orlando! And in the meantime, you can learn more about what we and our partners are doing at HIMSS on our event page.

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When we say mobile-first, it’s about mobility now being the mobility of the human experience across devices and places, not just a mobile device. When we say trusted cloud-first, it means that computing power is no longer confined to a device but rather now ubiquitously available and almost limitless in power. And accessing that computing power no longer requires mice, keyboards, and workstations that often get in the way of patient care, but rather, an invisible computing fabric now surrounds us everywhere and sensors, wearables, phones, screens, voice, pens, touch, gestures, and even our eye movements are fast becoming our gateways to the cloud.

Recently, as we looked at the opportunities for our economy to benefit from digital transformation, we found that digitization is occurring unevenly across industries, with large disparities. We also found that the most labor intense industries, like retail and healthcare, are the outlying laggards when it comes to digital transformation. Compared to other industries, both retail and healthcare have underinvested in systems of engagement, systems of insight, and systems of collaboration and community workflow that work alongside their systems of record, such as the EHR in the case of the healthcare industry.

At my luncheon keynote on “Healthcare in the Digital Age”, I‘ll be discussing how to maximally benefit from the wave of digital transformation by asking, “What analog processes exist today in healthcare that, if digitized, would enable us to more quickly achieve better outcomes, with an improved patient experience, at a lower cost?

We see three functional areas that stand the most to gain from digital transformation:

• Between visit interactions. The importance of what occurs outside the typical doctor and patient interaction is incredibly significant, especially in a fee for value marketplace. For most people, the average time between doctor visits is 5,000 hours. Innovations like the Children’s Mercy app have brought care teams into the places where we live and work, making it possible for the first time for consumers and their caregivers to interact with each other hundreds of times per year in new and innovative ways that will promote healthier living and faster recovery. Some of these “between visit” interactions will involve virtual consults with human clinicians, nurses, and coaches, but many of them will be automated by IoT apps, intelligent agents, and CRM-driven communications.
• Digitization of teamwork. This is about empowering interdisciplinary care teams to work together and communicate as if they were always in the same room when they’re not. Other industries have benefited from these ubiquitous technologies for years, but now care teams at large providers like St. Luke’s in Boise, ID, are instant messaging each other securely, removing the friction of analog communications. Digital transformation will blur the real and virtual worlds of patients and providers to break down the brick and mortar barriers that keep interdisciplinary teams that cross organizational boundaries from working across the care continuum as if they were in the same room.
• Business and clinical processes. This includes the many analog and labor intense processes of care delivery, health promotion, and disease prevention. Machine learning, advanced analytics, and community workflow platforms will automate care delivery and preventive processes, freeing clinicians to focus on the highest priority tasks and empowering them to do more in less time and with fewer resources than they could ever before imagined. Partners like Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems (IRIS) have brought specialists to the primary care provider by digitally enabling clinical expertise, processes, and information to move easily, safely, cheaply, and almost instantly.

Looking to the Future

By focusing and bringing these digital transformation capabilities to our customers both directly and through partner solutions, we’ve set our sights on achieving the mission to make health and care personal, effective, and affordable for every person and every organization. We invite every stakeholder to join us working collaboratively to achieve this mission and the triple aim.

Learn more about Microsoft and the digital transformation of health, and, join us at other events where we highlight specific solutions.

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Demonstrating how today’s technologies are promoting digital transformation in healthcare, here are the winners in each of the submission categories:

Building the Intelligent Cloud (two winners)

Primary Health Medical Group and Proskriptive

Proskriptive blended electronic medical records with claims data to provide a single unified patient view, enriched by risk models sourced from leading healthcare organizations, allowing Primary Health to more easily identify and manage cost/quality commitments. A central management console allows Primary Health to easily monitor their progress against all risk bearing contracts.

West Ridge Obstetrics and Gynecology and Patient identification Platform

The Patient identification Platform (Patient i.P.) automates the historically time-intensive process of patient matching for clinical trial participation.  The Platform securely de-identifies and aggregates electronic health record data so that clinical trial protocols can be automatically processed, rapidly identifying where and how many patients match the criteria requirements. The Patient iP solution enables group such as West Ridge Obstetrics and Gynecology to identify and match patients for clinical trials yielding increased treatment options, improved quality of life, and potentially lengthened lifespans.

Creating More Personal Computing

Tribridge
Tribridge Health360 is a consumer-centered, cloud solution built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM to enable Healthcare Providers to Personalize Care Experiences and achieve Population Health goals.

Reinventing Productivity and Business Processes (two winners)

Apollo Hospital Enterprises
Apollo Hospitals, a pioneer of private health care in India, developed an analytics solution consuming clinical big data to ensure analysis and communication of disease and infection surveillance information to both clinical and non-clinical teams using Microsoft’s data and analytics services. The implementation of the analytical tool brought the process of analysis and clinical decision support systems to near real time.

Partners Healthcare and Health Catalyst
Partners Healthcare deployed Health Catalyst’s Late Binding™ EDW and Analytics Platform to deploy an advanced episodic care analytics application, enabling big-picture and detailed views into the true cost and utilization of all aspects of care related to a particular clinical event, whether the care is delivered within Partners or outside.

Open Innovation

Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute and Liquidweb
Braincontrol is a breakthrough technology that gives those with severe communication and mobile disabilities the ability to control objects with their minds.  It works like a “mental joystick,” allowing people suffering from pathologies such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis, tetraplegia and various kinds of muscular dystrophies, to overcome severe physical and communicative disabilities. Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute, located in Italy, uses Braincontrol in the treatment of patients with severe communication and mobility disabilities.

In addition to acknowledging the innovative solutions of the award recipients, we would like to thank each of the distinguished judges who reviewed this year’s entries:

• Kelly Aldrich, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Center for Medical Interoperability
• Russell P. Branzell, CEO and President, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
• Taren Grom, Founding Partner, PharmaLinx and Editor-in-Chief, PharmaVOICE magazine
• Ahmad Hashem, CEO, Boston Biopharma, Inc.
• Cathy Ivory, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
• Ben Rooks, Principal, ST Advisors
• Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist and Advisor, THINK-Health and Health Populi blog
• Gienna Shaw, Editor-in-Chief, FierceMarkets
• Jay Srini, Chief Strategist, SCS Ventures
• Victoria L. Tiase, Director of Informatics Strategy, New York Presbyterian Hospital
• Gus Venditto, VP of Content Development, HIMSS Media

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