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Microsoft Health Users Group 2010 Innovation Awards Trophy will be presented at the Microsoft Booth Theater on March 2nd, 2010 during the HIMSS 2010 conference.

The Microsoft Healthcare Innovation Awards, is an opportunity to showcase how organization and customer's organization, is using technology to enhance and transform the quality of patient care, reduce costs, streamline clinical and business processes, drive interoperability, improve productivity and workflow, and enable informed decisions.

The Microsoft Healthcare Innovation Awards are presented annually to the healthcare organization and technology solutions partner, with which it has collaborated, that best demonstrates industry leadership in using technology to achieve innovation excellence in each of the following categories: 

• Clinical Records - Inpatient
• Clinical Records - Ambulatory
• HIE and Interoperability
• Microsoft HealthVault Applications
  

Entries will be judged primarily on the following three criteria:

• The innovation represents a breakthrough from the industry's historical approaches.
• The innovation goes beyond incremental improvements on technologies that already exist.
• The innovation measurably improves significant business and/or clinical processes that positively impact patient care.
  

The award committee will accept nominations from any healthcare organization worldwide, which has developed and implemented a solution independently or working with a technology solution partner, as long as the solution is based on the latest Microsoft technologies such as BizTalk Server, Windows Server, MOSS 2007, Windows Mobile, SQL Server, Microsoft Surface, Xbox or the Office System 2007 to name a few. The award emphasizes the innovative application of available software and the creation of new solutions.

Healthcare organizations include hospitals, health systems, clinics, group practices, public health organizations

Source: HIMSS

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