2021 Winning Stories of Innovation
The editors of Healthcare Innovation are delighted to announce the winning teams and the semifinalist winners in our annual Innovator Awards Program.
VENDOR WINNERS
The healthcare landscape is evolving and there is a greater need to focus on delivering stellar patient care, driving costs down, and reducing complexity at every level of operations. Enterprise imaging is at the heart of the hospital and is one of the richest data warehouses in the healthcare ecosystem.
PROVIDER WINNERS
1st Place — UCHealth, Denver, Colorado
Leaders at the Colorado health system have expanded their Virtual Health Center concept to facilitate a sepsis early-warning system that is improving patient outcomes--and they are our number-one winning Innovator Awards team.
2nd Place — Blue Cross Blue Shield, North Carolina
Leveraging AI tools, BCBSNC leaders look to achieve a big potential breakthrough on averting hospital readmissions. Hospital readmissions costs have been estimated to cost the U.S. healthcare system in excess of $26 billion; yet reducing avoidable readmissions remains a very heavy lift for provider organizations across the country.
Co-3rd Place — Kaiser Permanente Southern California & Southern California Permanente Group, Pasadena
Transforming a pandemic-related adjustment into an ongoing hospital-at-home program. As the COVID-19 pandemic tore through communities nationwide beginning last spring, bringing massive illness, hospitalization, and death in its wake, the leaders of many patient care organizations began to mobilize both to optimally care for patients, and to do what was possible to bring down inpatient admissions at a time when many hospitals were filled to capacity.
Co-3rd Place — Children's Health, Dallas
The North Texas-based health system’s comprehensive integrated behavioral health team and virtual health program demonstrated innovation across a number of dimensions throughout the course of the pandemic.
Semifinalists
- Penn Medicine, Philadelphia
- Landmark Health, Huntington Beach, California
- Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston
- Seattle Children’s Hospital
- Stanford Children’s Health, Palo Alto, California
- The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD, Houston