HL7 is proud to announce it has been named the winner of the 2026 Swaay.Health Award for Article of the Year in the nonprofit category. The award was presented live at the annual Swaay.Health LIVE event in Foxboro, MA.
The Swaay.Health Awards celebrate the achievements, excellence, and creativity of healthcare marketers, PR professionals, communications leaders, and patient experience advocates nationwide. HL7 International was recognized specifically for Chief Standards Development Officer / Chief AI Officer Dr. Daniel Vreeman’s article Building the Standards Infrastructure for Healthcare AI: Lessons from the Interoperability Journey published in the HL7 blog, The Standard. The article reflects on Dr. Vreeman’s panel participation in a panel at the annual ADAPT conference, which highlighted that as AI adoption accelerates, healthcare faces the same longstanding interoperability challenges, such as fragmented data, uneven governance, and a lack of shared standards, that have limited past digital innovations. He noted that HL7’s work shows that open, consensus-driven standards will be essential for trustworthy, transparent, and scalable AI, including future needs such as model provenance, explainability, and real-time performance monitoring.
The 2026 awards program was highly competitive, making the recognition particularly meaningful.
“At a time when marketing and patient experience budgets are being cut, it’s more important than ever for us to highlight the incredibly talented people, teams, content, and campaigns in healthcare that stood out over the past twelve months,” said Colin Hung, Editor-in-Chief at Swaay.Health. “Winning a Swaay.Health Award is no small feat. We received hundreds of high-quality nominations. This year’s winners were truly the best of the best.”
“Swaay.Health has always been about lifting each other up,” explained John Lynn, founder of Swaay.Health. “We feel it is our duty to share the good work being done by others so that we can all learn. The 2026 winners are inspiring. They are not letting the economic uncertainty hold them back. We need more of that!”
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