The MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards, now in its eleventh year, is an opportunity to showcase how your organization and your customer's organization, is using technology to enhance and transform the quality of patient care, reduce costs, streamline clinical and business processes, drive interoperability, improve productivity and workflow, and enable informed decisions. The MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards are presented annually to the healthcare organization and technology solutions partner-with which it has collaborated—that best demonstrates industry leadership in using technology to achieve innovation excellence in each of the following categories:
- Clinical Records - Inpatient
- Clinical Records - Ambulatory
- Delivery Transformation
- Disease Surveillance
- Interoperability
- Outcomes Reporting
How to Enter and More Information
- Review the Official Entry Form and Rules & Regulations from the MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards website at www.mshug.org/awards. All entries must be submitted on-line.
- Once completed, BOTH healthcare organization and technology solution partner must sign the completed Release Form (last page of entry document) and fax to 425-645-2020. Please note: Your submission will not be considered unless the Release Form is faxed in.
- Submission deadline is December 3rd, 2007 at 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. After this date, all entries and content will be considered final.
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About MS-HUG
Microsoft Healthcare Users Group is a membership community within the HIMSS Users Group Alliance Program, providing technology leadership and knowledge for improving healthcare delivery and efficiency. The alliance provides HIMSS with targeted industry expertise to help broaden its professional and industry contributions, and provides MS-HUG members with the opportunity to reach new markets with educational and professional development programs.
MS-HUG is the leading healthcare industry forum for exchanging ideas, promoting learning and sharing solutions for information systems using Microsoft technologies. MS-HUG works to provide industry leadership, drive appropriate standards and develop associated requirements in support of healthcare solutions. The diverse membership of MS-HUG is united by a shared interest in implementing vendor- and user-developed software based on Microsoft technology to improve quality and efficiency in healthcare. More information can be found on MS-HUG's Web site at http://www.mshug.org.
About HIMSS
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other locations across the country, HIMSS represents more than 20,000 individual members and over 300 corporate members that collectively represent organizations employing millions of people. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems' contributions to ensuring quality patient care.
About Microsoft in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Microsoft provides standards-based products and technology that helps empower people in the healthcare and life sciences industries to break down information barriers between disparate IT environments across provider organizations and physicians, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, government and private-sector employers, health insurers, and consumers. Microsoft's vision for knowledge-driven health utilizes the company's technology to help healthcare organizations and their people integrate their systems, enhance collaboration, and increase information sharing and learning - ultimately resulting in the ability to deliver high-quality products and services to patients and consumers worldwide. More information about Microsoft in Healthcare and Life Sciences can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/healthcare.