2026 Best Digital Health Platform

Connecting Patients and Providers Seamlessly.

The 2026 Best Digital Health Platform Award recognizes a comprehensive technology platform improving how healthcare is accessed, delivered, coordinated, managed, or experienced.

This category celebrates platforms that bring together multiple capabilities, users, workflows, or sources of information to create a more connected healthcare experience. Eligible platforms may support patients, providers, caregivers, employers, health plans, researchers, or healthcare organizations.

The winning entry should demonstrate more than a single digital feature. It should show how the platform creates a cohesive and useful environment that helps people complete important healthcare tasks, make informed decisions, or remain connected across the care journey.

What This Award Recognizes

This award recognizes digital health platforms that combine technology, usability, and healthcare value within an integrated experience. Eligible platforms may support one part of healthcare or connect multiple stages of care.

• Virtual care and hybrid care platforms
• Patient engagement and care navigation platforms
• Remote patient monitoring and chronic care platforms
• Provider workflow and clinical collaboration platforms
• Digital therapeutics and condition-management platforms
• Employer, health plan, and population health platforms
• Research, clinical trial, and life sciences platforms
• Platforms connecting patients, providers, caregivers, data, and services

Who Should Apply?

This category is open to companies, organizations, and teams offering a digital platform with a clear healthcare or life sciences application. Eligible entrants may include:

• Digital health and virtual care companies
• Healthcare software and platform providers
• Remote monitoring and connected care companies
• Patient engagement and care navigation platforms
• Provider technology and clinical workflow companies
• Health plan, employer health, and population health platforms
• Life sciences and clinical research technology companies
• Startups, established companies, health systems, and industry partnerships

Organizations may enter directly or be submitted by an authorized representative, agency, communications partner, customer, or member of the platform team.

What Judges Will Look For

Entries will be evaluated based on the platform’s design, capabilities, usability, evidence, and impact. Judges will consider:

• Platform value: How effectively the platform brings together useful capabilities, workflows, services, or information
• User experience: The clarity, accessibility, and usability of the experience for its intended users
• Connectivity: The platform’s ability to connect patients, providers, caregivers, organizations, data, or systems
• Innovation: The originality or significance of the platform’s technology, structure, or approach
• Scalability: The platform’s capacity to support additional users, organizations, use cases, or markets
• Measurable impact: Credible evidence of improved access, outcomes, efficiency, engagement, coordination, or experience

Entry Schedule

• Entries Open: December 1, 2026
• Early Bird Deadline: January 15, 2027
• Final Entry Deadline: February 12, 2027
• Winner Announced: March 8, 2027

Entry Fees

• Early Bird Entry: $395
• Regular Entry: $495

Eligibility

• Open to companies, organizations, and teams worldwide
• The submitted platform must have a clear healthcare, life sciences, clinical research, or patient-care application
• The platform should combine multiple capabilities, workflows, services, users, or sources of information within a connected experience
• The platform must have been launched, implemented, expanded, updated, or significantly advanced during the 2026 calendar year
• Platforms at different stages of maturity may enter when meaningful development, validation, adoption, or implementation can be demonstrated
• Supporting claims and results should be accurate and attributable to the submitted platform

What to Include in Your Entry

Entrants should clearly explain the platform, its intended users, and the value it delivered during 2026. Submissions should include:

• An overview of the platform and the healthcare need it addresses
• A description of its primary users, features, capabilities, and workflows
• An explanation of how the platform connects people, services, systems, or information
• Details about usability, accessibility, privacy, security, interoperability, or integration where relevant
• Important development, launch, implementation, partnership, or adoption milestones from 2026
• Measurable results demonstrating improved access, outcomes, efficiency, engagement, coordination, or experience
• Supporting links, demonstrations, research, reports, case studies, or customer examples

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