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.

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