{"id":29845,"date":"2019-02-14T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/industry\/blog\/?p=29845"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:37:29","slug":"himss-19-microsoft-for-healthcare-innovation-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/healthcare\/2019\/02\/14\/himss-19-microsoft-for-healthcare-innovation-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"HIMSS 19: Microsoft for Healthcare Innovation Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Health<\/p>\n

The winners of the 2019 Microsoft for Healthcare Innovation Awards were announced at HIMSS19<\/a> yesterday during the Microsoft Health Forum.\u00a0 Each year, the awards acknowledge health and life sciences organizations and their technology solution partners that are achieving innovation excellence with a Microsoft-based solution.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re 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:<\/p>\n

Award Category:\u00a0 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde<\/a> and KenSci<\/a><\/p>\n

To better understand which patients are at the highest risk of COPD, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde worked with KenSci to leverage AI and Machine Learning to predict long-term hospital stays based on clinical history, socio-economic factors and risk to stratify the top 20% high risk patients likely to admit for the first time due to COPD, in order to drive preventive intervention.<\/p>\n

Award Category:\u00a0 Empower Your Care Teams and Employees<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vision Source, LP<\/a> and\u00a0Kno2<\/a><\/p>\n

To meet the needs of populations with diabetes, Vision Source needed to establish a nationwide interoperability network for their 3,350 independent locations. As a result, Vision Source selected Kno2\u2019s Interoperability as a Service, enabling immediate access to over 2 million referring providers through the nation\u2019s major health information networks: Direct, referral networks, care quality, and those connected through Commonwell Health Alliance.<\/p>\n

Award Category:\u00a0 Engage Your Patients & Enable Personalized Care<\/strong><\/p>\n

Premera Blue Cross<\/a><\/p>\n

Premera Scout\u2122 is an intelligent virtual assistant that helps customers find the information they need to make the most of their health plan. Premera powers this solution using advanced AI from Microsoft Healthcare. Guided by a customer-centered strategy, Premera transforms complicated and confusing experiences to simple and easy ones.<\/p>\n

Award Category:\u00a0 Optimize Clinical Operational Effectiveness & Improve <\/strong>Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prediction of Patient Placement (POPP) Team at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n

Boston Children\u2019s Hospital uses Prediction of Patient Placement (POPP), a real time forecasting tool to predict incoming admissions from the Emergency Department. This tool enables proactive coordination of downstream operations in order to reduce transfer wait time. The model uses hospital-specific, historical data and is EHR- and hospital-agnostic.<\/p>\n

Award Category:\u00a0 Outstanding Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital<\/a> and DNAnexus<\/a><\/p>\n

A partnership between St. Jude, DNAnexus, and Microsoft developed the St. Jude Cloud, a secure cloud-based data-sharing and collaboration environment, to provide researchers access to an extensive public repository of pediatric cancer genomics data, accelerated data mining, analysis and visualization capabilities.<\/p>\n

Award Category:\u00a0 Transform the Care Continuum & Reimagine Healthcare<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johns Hopkins Medicine <\/a><\/p>\n

Johns Hopkins Medicine developed the Precision Medicine Analytics Platform (PMAP) to empower faculty to make discoveries; improve diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes; and lower the cost of care. PMAP is comprised of two parts: Discovery \u2013 for faculty researchers to fuel the discovery of new insights and algorithms; and Care Delivery \u2013 after discovery medical validation, promoted for use by other physicians.<\/p>\n

Thank you to our judges<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to acknowledging the innovative solutions of the award recipients, we would like to thank each of the\u00a0distinguished judges\u00a0who reviewed this year\u2019s entries:<\/p>\n