2027 IoT HealthTech Innovation Award

Submission overview

The 2027 IoT HealthTech Innovation Award recognizes connected technologies that improve patient outcomes, strengthen clinical workflows, and increase operational visibility across healthcare environments. The award celebrates practical IoT innovation that helps care teams act sooner, coordinate more effectively, and deliver safer, more responsive care.

Eligible entries may include remote patient monitoring, connected medical devices, asset and equipment tracking, facility and compliance monitoring, cold chain visibility, patient safety systems, public health platforms, emergency response technologies, and analytics or automation that improve healthcare delivery.

Strong submissions will show more than a promising concept. Entrants should explain the healthcare challenge, how the connected technology works, where it has been deployed, and what changed as a result. Quantified outcomes, customer or clinical evidence, implementation details, interoperability, security, privacy, and credible performance data will help judges assess the solution’s value and readiness.

Who should enter

Entries are welcome from HealthTech companies, hospitals, health systems, startups, research teams, system integrators, public-sector organizations, care providers, and customers deploying IoT solutions that improve care delivery, safety, efficiency, access, or health system visibility.

Entry schedule

• Entries Open: Tuesday, January 26, 2027
• Early Bird Deadline: Friday, February 19, 2027
• Final Entry Deadline: Friday, March 19, 2027
• Winners Announced: Tuesday, March 30, 2027

Entry fees

• Early Bird Entry: $395
• Regular Entry: $495

Each product, platform, deployment, or project requires a separate submission and entry fee.

What to include

Describe the healthcare challenge, the connected technology used to address it, the deployment environment, and the role of IoT data in producing the result. Explain the solution’s technical approach, implementation maturity, integrations, interoperability, scale, security, privacy, and operational or clinical value.

• Quantified improvements in patient outcomes, safety, efficiency, access, response time, asset utilization, compliance, or care coordination
• Deployment details, including care settings, locations, devices, users, populations, workflows, and implementation timeline
• Customer, client, clinical, or end-user identification when the entry relies on a real-world deployment
• Supporting evidence, including case studies, performance data, workflow documentation, dashboards, customer validation, images, videos, technical documents, or information URLs
• Any confidentiality, regulatory, embargo, or publicity restrictions

Supporting collateral should make the entry easier to verify and evaluate. Include the strongest evidence available, and clearly distinguish measured results from estimates, projections, or planned outcomes.

Submission process

1. Prepare your entry. Gather the required organization, contact, product, deployment, and supporting information before beginning the application.
2. Complete the application. Describe the solution, healthcare challenge, connected technology, deployment environment, integrations, measurable outcomes, and supporting evidence.
3. Submit payment. The entry fee is charged when the application is submitted. Entries are not complete until payment is received.

Judging criteria

• Healthcare impact demonstrated through meaningful improvements in outcomes, safety, access, efficiency, workflows, or system visibility
• Innovation in the use of connected devices, data, analytics, automation, or infrastructure to address a healthcare need
• Evidence quality supported by measurable results, credible validation, and a clear connection between the solution and the reported outcomes
• Scalability across care settings, users, locations, populations, workflows, or health systems
• Integration maturity and operational value demonstrated through interoperability, deployment readiness, usability, and practical value for care teams or patients
• Trust and reliability supported by appropriate attention to security, privacy, data quality, resilience, and responsible use

Eligibility

The award is open to organizations and individuals developing or deploying connected technologies for healthcare. Eligible settings include hospitals, clinics, home health, public health, emergency response, laboratories, pharmacies, life sciences, and care coordination. Commercial products, platforms, public-sector programs, research-led deployments, pilots, and customer implementations are eligible when the entry includes enough evidence for meaningful evaluation.

Submitted work should be active, deployed, launched, or meaningfully advanced during the current awards cycle. Entrants may submit their own solution or a customer deployment with appropriate authorization.