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:

Excellence Award

The biennial iMDsoft Excellence Award offers prizes for studies conducted by our users that demonstrate increases in patient safety and reduction in error and risks that are achieved by computerization of the critical care workflow.

This year's winners are:

First Prize - Carmel, Lady Davis Medical Center, Haifa, Israel:
"Computerized decision support improves use of alarms after separation from cardiopulmonary bypass"

Second Prize - Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK:
"The impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry on prescribing practices in cardiothoracic ICU"

Third Prize - Hadassah–Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel:
"High data completeness using Visual Basic script in a commercially available Electronic Anesthesia Information System"  

Research Grants

iMDsoft research grants are offered to support studies measuring the impact of MetaVision^® on hospital patient safety, care quality, and financial performance. Recent winners are:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Bein, et al, from University Hospital of Regensburg, Germany – received 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 – received a grant of US$4,000 for a proposed research project on the implementation of optimal nutrition support by using bedside algorithms in MetaVision.  

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.