The HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award aims to identify and recognize organizations in Asia Pacific that leverage on health information technology to successfully improve quality of care and patient safety.

The award has been successfully run in the last 3 years in the Asia Pacific Region and has been extended to the Middle East and Europe regions as well.

Award Categories

Outstanding ICT Achievement Award

• To recognize outstanding achievement in harnessing ICT to provide significant improvement to patient care and safety.
• The ICT solution adopted may not be new but it has been effectively used by the awarded hospitals to significantly improve patient care and outcome and/or address major challenges faced by the hospitals.
• Other limiting factors like the hospital financial background, the niche community that the hospital is serving, the long-standing problem that the target population is facing, etc…will also be taken into consideration.

Outstanding ICT Innovation Award

• To recognize the most innovative, creative and "out-of-the-box" ICT solutions used to improve patient care and safety.
• Innovation can be in the form of leveraging on existing technology to come up with new and creative usage of ICT to significantly enhance patient care and outcome OR developing a ground-breaking technology that leads the way in ICT adoption.