Community-Based Physician Leader/Innovator

This award honours a community-based physician who has shown outstanding leadership or innovation in the use of health IT in medical practice.

Presented by

• Practicing MD.
• The nominee’s clinical colleagues have recognized him/her as a champion for advancing the use of IT for healthcare delivery.
• The nominee has served as a role model for using technology to improve the quality of patient care in a community setting.
• The nominee provides demonstrable leadership in encouraging the appropriate use of IT for healthcare.
• The nominee has made innovative use of IT to improve medical practice or healthcare.

Examples

• Implementing and using an EMR in an innovative fashion in own practice.
• Encouraging interconnectivity of IT systems between healthcare providers and institutions in the community.
• Encouraging use of IT to improve health outcomes, increase efficiency, improve patient safety, and enhance research.

Nomination Deadline: 5 pm ET September 13, 2010. 
Nominators: Please use the Question Form to write your letter of nomination.
Download Community-Based_Physician_Question_Form (PDF)

Note: Letters from nominators and supporters should be addressed to the Awards Adjudication Committee.  
Nomination Process. Submit Nomination.