Children’s Memorial Hospital’s Web site wins three Greystone awards and two 2006 eHealthcare Leadership awards
November 15, 2006 — Children's Memorial Hospital is
pleased announce that the hospital's Web site received five awards during the
2006 Tenth Annual Healthcare Internet Conference held in Atlanta in November.
Children's Memorial received three awards from Greystone.Net and two in
eHealthcare Leadership from Health Care
Communications.
The three Greystone awards are a “gold” 2006
Greystone.Net Best In Class Award for Best Web Site Interactivity; a
“silver” award for Most Innovative Use of Technology for a Web Site;
and another “silver” for Most Innovative Web Site . This year there were nearly 100 entries in the Greystone
program.
Children's Memorial's two awards from Health Care
Communications are a “gold” award in eHealthcare Leadership for Best Staff
Recruitment among hospitals in the 200-399 bed range and a “distinction”
for Best e-Business
in the same bed range.
Sites receiving the 2006 eHealthcare Leadership
Awards were selected
from more than 1,100 entries.
Georgia-based Greystone.Net, established in 1996, provides Internet
and World Wide Web consulting services for a wide array of healthcare
organizations. Greystone awards were presented in eleven categories.
The eHealthcare Leadership Awards program was developed and first presented seven
years ago by eHealthcare Strategy &
Trends, a well known Internet resource published by
Health Care
Communications. Winners
of platinum, gold, silver, and distinction awards from
Health Care
Communications
represented 17 industry classifications, from hospitals and health systems to
pharmaceutical firms and online health companies. Awards were given in 12 different
categories.
The Tenth Annual Healthcare Internet Conference was sponsored by
Greystone.Net in cooperation with the Chicago-based Forum for Healthcare
strategists.
More information here about the Greystone awards and more information
here about the Health Care Communications awards.
Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, is recognized as
one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country and is rated number one in
Illinois in rankings published in U.S. News & World Report . Its physicians are faculty members at the Feinberg School of
Medicine, Northwestern University.
For more information on the Children's Memorial Web site, contact Kerry Otto,
Web manager at 773.880.6874.