Search Tag: Awards
2023 22 Dec
In 2023, Affidea has once again set a gold standard in healthcare, garnering numerous awards and recognitions that highlight its unwavering commitment to patient safety, innovation, and community care. "This year's achievements are a true reflection of our team's dedication to excellence in healthcare. Each award represents the hard work,...Read more
2023 30 Aug
The International Hospital Federation (IHF) has announced the finalists of the IHF Awards 2023 after scoring entries in all 7 Award categories. This year, more than 500 entries were submitted by hospitals and healthcare organizations from 43 countries/territories – a record number since the Awards commenced in 2015. The projects and programmes...Read more
2020 09 Jan
EIT Health has awarded 120 health start-ups €6 mln to fast track innovative products and services to the market under the umbrella of its 2019 ‘Headstart Programme’. The 120 start-ups involved in the programme addressed a range of challenges facing healthcare today in categories such as MedTech, digital health and biotech. ...Read more
2019 11 Dec
The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) has announced its 2020 Honorary Awards programme which recognises achievements in the field of medical imaging informatics. The body is accepting online nominations for the awards until Friday, January 31, 2020. You might also like: Imaging Informatics: SIIM and EuSoMII...Read more
2019 02 Dec
Valerie P . Jackson , president of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), highlighted future trends in the imaging landscape as the 105th Scientific assembly and Annual Meeting opened in Chicago on Sunday. HealthManagement.org is tweeting live from the congress which runs for six days until December 6 and comprises educational...Read more
2019 26 Mar
#SIR19ATX: New initiative aims to foster diversity in interventional radiology AUSTIN, TEXAS —Former Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) President Alan H. Matsumoto , M.D., FSIR, introduced a new program to support diversity in interventional radiology by providing a travel grant for medical students from diverse backgrounds...Read more
2018 22 Sep
How the UK Space Agency is contributing to healthcare. England’s National Health Service (NHS) is joining forces with the UK Space Agency to tackle four critical healthcare challenges. The UK Space Agency has launched a multi-million-pound joint initiative with the NHS for healthcare innovators who can demonstrate how technology...Read more
2016 21 Nov
HIMSS Europe is bringing the Kate Granger Awards for Compassionate Care to Europe - to be launched at next week’s World of Health IT event – an international conference dedicated to health IT. Nominations are open for the first ever European Kate Granger Awards for Compassionate Care – named after an English doctor who worked tirelessly to...Read more
2016 30 Jun
The introduction of image-guided lung biopsies using an early discharge protocol means a more cost effective and improved service for patients with suspected lung cancer A team which has developed a new system to accelerate and improve early diagnosis of lung cancer, a first for the UK, has won the BIR/Bayer Make it Better Award which was...Read more
2016 28 Mar
The Trauma Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center has been awarded the ICU Design Citation. The prestigious award — co-sponsored by the American Assocation of Critical-Care Nurses with the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Committee on Architecture for Health of the American Institute of Architects recognises...Read more
2016 16 Feb
Professor Kai Zacharowski , Director of the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy at Frankfurt University Hospital has been honoured with the 2015 Humanitarian Award from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation , for his outstanding contribution to reducing the number of preventable patient deaths. Zacharowski and his team developed...Read more
2016 25 Jan
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) has announced that a member of its Board of Directors, Chairman of its Scientific Advisory Board, and its Chief Science Officer, Steven Barker, Ph.D., M.D., was honored with the 2016 J.S. Gravenstein Award recognizing lifetime achievement at this month's Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA) Annual Meeting in Palm Beach,...Read more
2015 30 Nov
Toshiba, Barco and TomTec are recognized for their outstanding performance and support to Agfa HealthCare's business Awards are based on quality, delivery and cost, as well as the results from a cross-functional stakeholder survey. 30 suppliers in total were pre-selected, representing imaging systems, imaging informatics solutions...Read more
2015 29 Nov
The Annual Meeting’s opening session this morning included an awards presentation by RSNA President Ronald L. Arenson . The laureates were honoured for their outstanding contributions in the field of education and research. The Outstanding Educator Award was presented to the thoracic radiologist Kay H. Vydareny , MD, in recognition for her extraordinary...Read more
2015 02 Nov
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced that a member of its Board of Directors, Chairman of its Scientific Advisory Board, and its Chief Science Officer, Dr. Steven Barker, Ph.D., M.D., was honored with the Harvey W. Weiley Lifetime Achievement Award at this month's Innovations and Applications of Monitoring Perfusion, Oxygenation, and Ventilation (IAMPOV)...Read more
2015 08 Sep
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has chosen Kyriakos S. "Kokos" Markides, PhD, of the University of Texas Medical Branch as the 2015 recipient of the Robert W. Kleemeier Award. This distinguished honor is given annually to a GSA member in recognition...Read more
2015 25 May
Supporting recognition of excellence, innovations and outstanding achievements in global healthcare leadership and management. IHF - DR KWANG TAE KIM GRAND AWARD Eligibility - IHF Full and Associate Members ONLY - Demonstrated fields of excellence and and achievements with proven results at health system or facility level in several areas such...Read more
2015 24 Apr
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global IP Center presented Joe Kiani, Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Masimo, with the 2015 Life Sciences IP Champion Award at a ceremony commemorating World IP Day in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kiani has more than 65 patents in his name and more than 575 patents issued or filed by Masimo, in medical technologies related...Read more
2015 01 Apr
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association have recognised Harris Health System’s Ben Taub Hospital for its success in providing care for acute ischaemic strokes. The Houston-area hospital was awarded the Get With The Guidelines®- Stroke Gold Plus-Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus Award for achieving a minimum of 85 percent adherence...Read more
2014 02 Dec
Agfa HealthCare Supplier Excellence Programme highlights outstanding performance of Kyocera and continuing progress of Hewlett-Packard as Best Supplier and Most Improved Supplier respectively. Awards are based on quality, delivery, cost, relationship and responsiveness. 20 suppliers were shortlisted and 2 selected for awards by the Agfa HealthCare...Read more
2014 07 Oct
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half to John O´Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. How do we know where we are? How can we find the way from one...Read more
2014 18 Jul
Internationally renowned surgeon Angelita Habr-Gama, MD, PhD, has been named the 2014 ASTRO Honorary Member by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). This is the highest honour awarded by ASTRO and Dr. Habr Gama has been selected from many distinguished cancer researchers, scientists and leaders. The Award will be presented...Read more
2014 11 Jul
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), one of the leading paediatric hospitals in the US, has been included in the list of 'Most Wired' hospitals in the country. Being named on the list, released annually by Health & Health Networks magazine, is recognition of a health care organisation's investment in technology that supports patient safety and...Read more
2014 11 Jul
Charles E. Daniels, PhD, FASHP, pharmacist-in-chief for UC San Diego Health System, is this year's recipient of the prestigious John W. Webb Lecture Award, announced The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). The Webb Award honours experts in the field of health-system pharmacy who have shown exemplary leadership and dedication to promoting...Read more
2014 01 Jul
Imperial College London Professor Christofer Toumazou has been awarded the prestigious European Inventor Award 2014 for his contribution to innovative scientific research. Toumazou developed a rapid DNA test that decodes an individual’s DNA within minutes, independent of any laboratory setting, using a chip that can be implanted in a simple USB stick....Read more
2014 06 Jun
For the second year in a row, Susan Hertzberg, President and CEO of Boston Heart Diagnostics, has been named a regional finalist for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. New England regional winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Sheraton in Boston on 11 June 2014. The annual awards program honours...Read more
2014 15 May
The 2014 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research has been awarded to Stuart H. Altman, PhD, who will receive his prize during a ceremony to be held at the AUPHA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, on June 19. Subsidised by The Baxter International Foundation and managed by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration...Read more
2014 03 Apr
Three Dutch centers and a Spanish one, recognised for operating in a paperless environment and representing best practices in implementation of the EMR HIMSS Europe awarded yesterday four new hospitals in Europe with Stage 6 Award during the World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition (WoHIT) that is taking place in Nice, France, from the 2nd...Read more
2014 21 Mar
Regionshospitalet Silkeborg, a Danish hospital in Falkevej, has won the inaugural TMC Radiology Quality Award for 2014 during a ceremony held recently at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna. The TMC Radiology Quality Award is launched by Telemedicine Clinic, the leading European provider of teleradiology services, and will be handed...Read more
2014 21 Feb
EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Pascale Cossart, a world renowned bacteriologist and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, as the winner of the 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. Professor Cossart receives the award for her outstanding contributions to the study of how bacteria...Read more