Digital Health Hub Foundation Awards

Judge Lance Baily (left) and Winner MedCrypt CEO Mike Kijewski (right).

The Digital Health Hub Foundation Awards took place on October 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada on stage at the HLTH conference. Kimberly Streett and Elizabeth Drye from the National Quality Forum and Lance Baily from HealthySimulation.com served as judges, alongside dozens of other judges recruited by the Digital Health Hub Foundation, being tasked to choose the best patient safety digital health solution from over 1,500 submissions.

Eight semi-finalists and four finalists competed for the $10,000 patient safety prize, sponsored by the Patient Safety Technology Challenge with funding from the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative.

Medcrypt CEO, Mike Kijewski, received the first ever “Best in Class” Patient Safety prize. Medcrypt shares on its website, “We help healthcare technology companies build safe and effective solutions to ensure patient safety.” Medcrypt products are optimized for medical device manufacturers to build safe, secure, innovative medical devices faster while meeting U.S. Food & Drug Administration cybersecurity requirements. Medcrypt assists healthcare technology firms in guaranteeing the security of their medical devices by offering cybersecurity solutions and advisory services to streamline the introduction of lifesaving connected technologies into the market.

 “As a key media partner with the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, we at HealthySimulation.com were honored to announce the Patient Safety Technology Challenge winner at the Digital Health Hub Foundation Awards at the HLTH conference, and wish to congratulate Mike Kijewski and MedCrypt for their innovative patient data security tool,” Bailey said.