Objectives and Outcome eHealth World Forum is a global thought leadership conference being organised by the eHEALTH magazine to bring together leaders from the global healthcare industry on a common platform. eHealth World Awards are an integral part of this global event instituted with the primary aim of felicitating innovative and unique initiatives in healthcare in India and across the globe. The awards welcomed global leaders to present their innovative projects and share their ideas to educate others of the developments being undertaken by various organisations holding healthcare technologies as their base. eHealth World Awards was open to all national and international government and private organisations. The awards were spread under three major processes—nominations, public voting and jury selection.
Categories and Nominations Nominations were invited from innovative projects and programmes from across the globe in the following categories: • Government Policy Empowering ICT Enabled Healthcare Initiatives • Best ICT Enabled Hospital • Best ICT Enabled Diagnostic Service Provider • Best Public Private Partnership Initiative • Most Affordable Healthcare Provider • Best mHealth project • Best Online Healthcare Provider • Excellence in Care Delivery through Innovative Use of Technology • Most Innovative Technology for Healthcare Inclusion • Most Innovative Initiative in Healthcare
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More than 50 nominations were received from around the globe under various categories. All these projects are innovative and unique and present an overview of some of the key initiatives being undertaken to transform the healthcare industry, worldwide. Public Voting After the nomination process was completed, the projects were made open for voting on the eHealth World Forum’s website—www.eworldforum.net. The public voting process received a whopping response with over 2,22,000 votes received from around the world. The evaluation of the best project in the public voting category has hence been made on the basis of the number of votes received by each nomination.
Jury Rating The nominations were screened by an eminent panel of jury members, who chose the best project from each category. The projects were selected on the basis of the following criteria: • Economic cost and sustainability, stakeholder support • Gender parity, and other inclusiveness indicators • Impact on livelihoods and society in general • Demonstrable effects on the project target groups • Community initiatives and ownership • The measure and potential of replication • Extent of collaboration The nominations were vetted by certain procedures and rules governing the evaluation of the entries. In the following pages, we bring to you a compilation of the top projects in the public choice as well as jury choice categories.