Wolters Kluwer received a Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition for its POC Advisor, a sepsis treatment technology solution.
Here are five highlights:
1. POC Advisor received top honors in the "Clinical Information Management" category as well as an overall award of "Best in Show: Fiercest Cost-Saving Solution."
2. POC Advisor is designed for early detection and treatment of sepsis. The technology utilizes automated, real-time surveillance to aggregate, normalize and analyze patient data. The surveillance system then offers patient-specific alerts and treatments at the point of care.
3. CIOs from leading U.S. hospitals and health systems selected the winners.
4. Selection criteria included care efficiency, competitive advantage, financial value, market need, patient satisfaction, quality of care and patient outcomes as well as overall fierceness and innovation.
5. The publisher of FierceHealthcare, FierceHealthIT and FierceMobileHealthPayer holds the awards program.
