The development of high quality, low cost health care depends on massive innovation in the way services are actually delivered. This is recognised by a new award programme – The HBI Business Model Innovation Awards – set up by publisher Healthcare Business International and in association with KPMG.

A panel of judges will assess entries, which will be awarded at a gala dinner on 4 April, 2017 at the Healthcare Business International 2017 conference.

The seven awards are for operators who can demonstrate scalable and successful new approaches that cut costs and/or improve quality of treatment.

Innovation can involve the use of ehealth and telehealth, but it can also come from new ways of quickly training people, from cutting costs, from changing corporate cultures or from measuring and improving quality outcomes. The awards are for services, not products. The aim is to show case not only the winners, but also the runners up during the conference. The case studies will also be covered extensively on the Healthcare Business International website.

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Innovative Low Cost Business model

This awards operators who have come up with ways of cutting costs dramatically. This could be in the delivery of services to a group of patients or residents – for example, a business model which has slashed the cost of dialysis, imaging, cataracts, chronic disease management programmes or homecare and residential care.

Best Use of Digital Health

This is for operators who have best incorporated any aspect of digital health into the delivery of powerful new treatment and care programmes. Typically the users of the IT will be doctors, nurses or carers rather than patients (see our other award for patient platforms). This could include any sort of software from enterprise products downward!

Best use of HR

This rewards providers who can demonstrate HR changes, which have had a dramatic impact on performance. This could be the transfer of processes from doctors to nurses, which cuts costs and saves time. It could be a programme, which dramatically improved patient or resident care or treatment. Or it could be training programmes that led to big skill improvements.

Best medical service outsourcer

This award is for the provider who can show a really innovative and successful form of medical service outsourcing.

Best Building of a Brand

Health care service brands that promise and deliver real quality are beginning to develop in both Emerging Markets and in mature economies. They are a mark and assurance of quality and reflect all the work implied in the creation of quality. So this award is for operators who can demonstrate a holistic programme to build quality and to then demonstrate it to one or more of these groups: patients, residents, governments and referring doctors.

Best Quality Data Model

This prize is for operators who can show they have measured quality accurately and well and have used this data to effect change internally in the behaviour of staff leading to better outcomes at lower costs or higher volumes.

Best Patient Platform

This is an award for operators, rating sites or insurers who have developed or deployed interactive sites that enable patients to store and view their health data, to check symptoms and to communicate with medical staff. The winner is the provider who can show a compelling platform that is achieving mass usage by patients.