Health Imaging & IT's Top Connected nominations available

Has your organization implemented an innovative imaging connectivity project in the last 24 months? Can you provide data demonstrating its impact on staffing, patient wait times, report turn-around time, reduced errors or other quality metrics? Has your hospital, health system, imaging center or physician practice seamlessly integrated imaging and IT systems to provide physicians with immediate, anywhere access to patient data? Do you have the ROI and soft ROI—plus high patient and staff satisfaction numbers—to prove it?

If so, Health Imaging & IT would like to hear from you. The 2011 Top Connected 25 Healthcare Facilities process has started and nomination forms will be collected throughout May and June with a final deadline of Friday, July 1.

After a thorough review of all nominations, Health Imaging & IT will identify 25 winners to profile in case studies in the August issue of Health Imaging & IT and online at healthimaging.com. Winners also receive a commemorative plaque for display.

Nomination forms for the 2011 Health Imaging & IT annual Top Connected awards are available here.

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