2026 Patient-Centered Care Award
Putting Patients at the Heart of Health Innovation
The 2026 Patient-Centered Care Award recognizes technologies, platforms, and care models designed to improve the healthcare experience by putting patients first. This category honors innovations that strengthen access, engagement, communication, trust, convenience, and overall care quality by helping healthcare work better for the people it serves.
Who Should Apply
- Companies building platforms or tools that improve the patient experience across care settings
- Organizations advancing communication, engagement, navigation, scheduling, access, or support solutions
- Innovators helping patients better understand, manage, and participate in their care
- Teams improving convenience, transparency, trust, or continuity across the healthcare experience
Why This Award Matters
Patient-centered care is essential to better healthcare delivery. When solutions are built around the needs, preferences, experiences, and outcomes of patients, care becomes more effective, more accessible, and more human. This award recognizes the innovations helping providers, health systems, and care teams create better experiences and stronger relationships across the full patient journey.
Entry Schedule
- Entries Open: September 22, 2026
- Early Bird Deadline: October 16, 2026
- Final Entry Deadline: November 20, 2026
- Winners Announced: November 30, 2026
Entry Fees
- Early Bird Entry: $395
- Regular Entry: $495
Eligibility
- Open to global companies, startups, and organizations
- Entries must highlight solutions developed, released, updated, or announced in the applicable calendar year
- Submissions should demonstrate measurable improvements in patient experience, access, engagement, or care quality
What to Submit
- Narrative: Explain the patient experience challenge, your solution, and the impact it is designed to create
- Impact evidence: Share outcomes related to access, engagement, satisfaction, communication, adherence, or care coordination
- Technical overview: Outline the platform, workflow, integrations, delivery model, or support features behind the solution
- Visuals: Include screenshots, workflows, interfaces, diagrams, or supporting visuals when available
- Supporting links: Add case studies, testimonials, research, implementation results, or press coverage when available
Judging Criteria
- Impact: Measurable improvements in patient experience, access, engagement, or care quality
- Innovation: Strength and originality of the approach to patient-centered care
- Adoption: Real-world use across patients, providers, care teams, or health systems
- Practical value: Ability to address meaningful patient needs in real healthcare settings
How to Apply
- Visit the application page
- Provide your narrative, impact evidence, technical overview, visuals, and supporting materials
- Submit by the applicable deadline and complete payment
Contact
Questions? Contact awards@healthtechnode.com.
Ready to enter? Submit your Patient-Centered Care Award entry for the current cycle.
Entry fees are charged at submission and are non-refundable. Customer or client identity should be included in your submission. If you need names excluded from public materials, notify us in writing at the time of submission. By submitting, you agree to the Submission Guidelines, Privacy Policy, and Terms and Conditions. HealthTechNode Awards are independent and unaffiliated with other award programs.
Submission Guidelines
- Eligibility: Open to companies, startups, products, platforms, and individuals making an impact in healthcare technology.
- Requirements:
- 250-word narrative highlighting achievements and innovation.
- High-resolution logo and at least one image of the solution (product photo, screenshot, or device image).
- Customer/client identity must be included. If you wish to withhold this from public release, notify us in writing at the time of submission.
- Fees: A submission fee applies per category. See this award’s page for pricing.
- Evaluation: Judged on innovation, clinical impact, scalability, design, and contribution to healthcare technology.
- Multiple Submissions: You may enter more than one category.
- Award Timing: Winners announced within 60 days of final submission deadline.
- Contact: For questions, email awards@healthtechnode.com.
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