iMDsoft seeks to promote initiatives and research that enable hospitals to improve patient safety and care quality through the use of technology. We do this by supporting the following awards and schemes:

iMDsoft Research Grants
iMDsoft research grants are offered to support studies measuring the impact of MetaVision on hospital patient safety, care quality, and financial performance. This year's winners are:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bein et al, from University Hospital of Regensburg, Germany – receive a grant of US$6,000 for a proposed research project on realization of lung protective ventilation with the Event Manager.
Dr. Rob JM Strack van Schijndel et al, from VU Medical Center, Department of Intensive Care, The Netherlands – receive a grant of US$4,000 for a proposed research project on implementation of optimal nutrition support by using bedside algorithms in MetaVision.

iMDsoft Excellence Award
The biennial iMDsoft Excellence Award offers prizes for studies conducted by our users that demonstrate the increases in patient safety and reduction in error and risks that are achieved by computerizing the critical care workflow.
The winners of the 2006 award were:
1st Prize - CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland:
Impact of a CIS on Quality of Nutritional Support in the ICU
2nd Prize - Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikvah, Israel:
Computerized Energy Balance & Complications in Critically Ill Patients: An Observational Study
3rd Prize - OLVG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
Decision Support Increases Guideline Adherence for Prescribing PONV Prophylaxis

ESICM Patient Safety Research Award
iMDsoft sponsors the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine's Patient Safety Research Award, which focuses on developing new research related to patient safety in general and novel information technologies likely to assist in this goal. The award is presented at the opening ceremony of the ESICM annual conference; further details may be viewed here.

Data Dictionary Task Force
iMDsoft is a patron of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation's Data Dictionary Task Force. The APSF seeks to ensure that no patient shall be harmed by anesthesia and to foster investigations that will provide a better understanding of preventable anesthetic injuries, to encourage programs that will reduce the number of anesthetic injuries, and to promote national and international communication of information and ideas about the causes and prevention of anesthetic morbidity and mortality.