Platinum Award - Best Health/Healthcare Content

Platinum Award - Best Web 2.0/Rich Media

Gold Award - Best Interactive Site

Some 235 healthcare organizations, representing a broad industry spectrum, received recognition for their outstanding Web sites at a special presentation in Orlando on November 11 during the Twelfth Annual Healthcare Internet Conference.  Sites receiving the 2008 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were selected from more than 1,100 entries.  A total of 114 individuals familiar with healthcare and the Internet judged the entries.

Winners of platinum, gold, silver, and distinction awards represented 17 industry classifications, from hospitals and health systems to pharmaceutical firms and online health companies.  Awards were given in 12 different categories: Best Site Design, Best Interactive, Best Health/Healthcare Content, Best e-Business, Best Care/Disease Management, Best Web 2.0/Rich Media, Best Employee Recruitment, Best Quality Communication, Best Newsroom, Best Overall Internet Site, Best Intranet Site, and eHealth Organizational Commitment.

Judges looked at how sites compared with others in their organization’s classification.  They also reviewed sites based on a proprietary multi-point standard of Internet excellence.  The best intranet site category, for example, had to pass muster on more than 60 factors.

The eHealthcare Leadership Awards program was developed and first presented nine years ago by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, a leading Internet resource published by Health Care Communications, Rye, NY.  The Twelfth Annual Healthcare Internet Conference was sponsored by Greystone.Net, an Atlanta-based strategy firm, and StayWell Custom Communications, an Evanston, IL-based content supplier.

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