HIMSS Asia Pacific Oct 01, 2019 5 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 17 minutes ago
For Immediate Release
Healthcare and Information Management Systems Society Asia Pacific (HIMSS APAC) and Elsevier are proud to announce the finalists for the Asia Pacific HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award, which identify organizations that have effectively used information and technology to successfully improve quality of
health and care and patient safety.
The achievements of the organizations will be recognized in two categories:
- The Outstanding ICT Achievement Award to recognize outstanding achievement in harnessing ICT to provide significant improvement to patient care and safety;
- The Outstanding ICT Innovations Award to recognize the most innovative, creative and “out-of-the-box” ICT solutions used to improve patient care and safety.
This year, 16 submissions were received from thirteen organizations across seven countries in the Asia Pacific region, and four finalists have been shortlisted for each category. The four finalists for Outstanding ICT Achievement Award are:
- Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital, India, with their submission titled “Operational efficiency enhancement in the Discharge Process of Inpatients, by Implementing Operations BOTs Enabled Real-Time Monitoring of the Discharge Process and the Patient Experience”;
- Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), South Korea, with their submission titled “The Clinical Data Warehouse, Health Information Exchange and Closed-loop Medication Administration System (CLMA)”;
- Faculty of Medicine, Naresuan University, Thailand, with their submission titled “The Doctor Knows You”;
- National University Health System, Singapore, with their submission titled “Disease Progression Modelling (DPM)”.
The four finalists for Outstanding ICT Innovations Award are:
- Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bumrungrad Hospital, Thailand, with their submission on “Deep Learning for Automated Classification of Tuberculosis-Related Chest X-Ray (DAC4TB)”;
- Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, with their submission on “PreSAGE – A Smart Bed-Exit Prediction and Preven
tion System Based on Thermal Sensing”;
- Faculty of Medicine, Naresuan University & NU Graduate School, Thailand, with their submission on “The e-Consultation System: A Telemedicine System using the Hololens®, Augmented Reality, and Innovative Networking”;
- Work Healthy, Australia, with their submission on “Data Driven Self Learning Platform for Practitioner Clinical Excellence”.
“This year’s winners displayed a continuous path to success. There were many submissions with outstanding healthcare innovations falling in line with Elsevier’s mission of delivering better patient outcomes and improving healthcare quality,” said Dr Ian Chuang, Chief
Medical Officer, Elsevier and a member of the judging panel.
John H. Daniels, Global Vice President at HIMSS Analytics and also a member of the judging panel, added: “It has been exciting to serve on the judging panel for the HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Awards, and the submissions have demonstrated the amazing innovative work applicants are doing to truly transform healthcare. They certainly deserve to be recognized for their outstanding transformative work.”
The Asia Pacific edition of the HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award is now into its seventh year of recognizing ICT achievements and innovations across the region, with the Award also hosted in Europe, Middle East and Latin America.
The winners of the Asia Pacific edition will be announced on 8 October during the HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award Dinner at HIMSS AsiaPac19 Conference.
For media queries, please contact:
Ms. Shereen Woon
Manager, Strategic Marketing & Partnerships
HIMSS Asia Pacific
DID: +65 6664 1181
Email: swoon@himss.org |
Mr. Iylia Khan
Assistant Manager, Marketing & Communications
HIMSS Asia Pacific
DID: +65 6664 1184
Email: ikhan@himss.org |
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