ECRI announces 2022 Health Technology Excellence Award

Editor's Note

On May 5, McLaren Northern Michigan was named the winner of ECRI’s 16^th Health Technology Excellence Award for its integration of patient-care technologies into new hospital construction.

The award-winning submission described the hospital’s plan to build 200 private patient rooms, a range of clinical care areas, as well as pharmacy and sterile processing services.

A number of vendors were involved, including companies that provided technologies for patient monitoring, staff communication, electronic medical records, real-time locating systems, and virtual nursing.

Competing for this award were other hospitals in the US, Columbia, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, and Canada.