Bio-IT World Best Practices Call for Entries Open

By Bio-IT World Staff

October 26, 2015 | Bio-IT World is accepting entries to the 2016 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition. For the past thirteen years, the Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards have highlighted outstanding examples of innovations and partnerships serving as powerful forces for change in the life sciences.

The deadline for entry is February 6, 2016, and the application fee will be waived for entrants who meet the early deadline of December 11, 2015.

As the Bio-IT landscape matures and stakeholders dig deeper into the challenges of precision medicine, ‘omics data management, storage and data mobility, solutions come from partnerships and collaborations that bring various voices to the table. Together entrepreneurs, clinicians, researchers and engineers are defining the new standards that push the industry forward.

Bio-IT World’s distinguished peer-review panel of judges has reviewed nearly 500 entries over the program’s history, from large pharmaceutical companies, startup biotechs, non-profit organizations, hospitals and care centers, government health agencies, and innovative IT vendors.

“In an industry moving as rapidly as ours, we risk our efforts becoming splintered and diluted if we can’t share innovations and make forward progress,” said Bio-IT World’s editor, Allison Proffitt. “These awards have long been a testing ground for new ideas and a platform to share best practices on which the community as a whole can build. It’s a privilege to host part of the conversation.”

This year, entries will be accepted in six categories: Clinical & Health-IT; IT infrastructure/HPC; Informatics; Knowledge Management; Research & Drug Discovery; and Personalized & Translational Medicine.

The 2016 winners will receive a crystal award to be presented at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston at a special plenary session on April 6. Winners and entrants will also be the subject of special features in Bio-IT World.

For more information on the program, and to download the entry form, please visit www.bio-itworld.com/bestpractices.