Netsmart, an industry-leading technology platform company with a suite of solutions and services, announces the recipients of its quarterly Innovator Award, recognizing community-based care organizations that demonstrate exceptional achievement within the Healthcare IT (HIT) Value Model. This new award program celebrates clients that have achieved 90% or greater attainment within a single HIT Value Model Dimension, showcasing extraordinary dedication to technology-enabled care transformation.
The HIT Value Model is built on seven dimensions that represent a critical area of technology adoption and optimization, including Providing Care, Workforce Management, Integrating Care, Data Insights, Consumer Engagement, Care Administration and Population Health Management. Each dimension encompasses measurable capabilities and key performance indicators that define an organization’s ability to use technology and services to achieve specific goals. The model is designed to help organizations assess their current strengths, identify opportunities for enhancement to prioritize investments and support ongoing strategic planning.
The Innovator Award recognizes healthcare organizations that excel within a specific dimension of the HIT Value Model, achieving 90% or higher in one domain. This distinction highlights providers that are leveraging their technology investments not only to advance internal performance, but also to contribute to better outcomes for the communities they serve. Award recipients demonstrate measurable excellence in IT-enabled capabilities, meaningful utilization of solutions and services and a commitment to innovation, continuous improvement and client-centered care.
“The organizations receiving this quarter’s Innovator Award are a testament to what is possible when technology is used with purpose and embraced through a platform approach,” said Netsmart CEO Mike Valentine. “As healthcare IT continues to evolve, progress in augmented intelligence, automation and interoperability is creating new opportunities to strengthen operations, improve outcomes and support more connected care. Their achievements reflect how the Healthcare IT Value Model can help providers identify opportunities and make strategic decisions that drive measurable progress.”
Q1 2026 Innovator Award Recipients by HIT Value Model Dimension:
- Providing Care: Burke Center and Seven Counties Services
- Workforce Management: CODA, Inc., Cumberland River Comprehensive Care Center, EmberHope, Nexus Family Healing and Seven Counties Services
- Data Insights: CODA, Inc., Devereux Foundation, Nexus Family Healing, Professional Care Services, Rosecrance, Seven Counties Services and Spectrum Health Systems
- Consumer Engagement: Professional Care Services and Seven Counties Services
- Care Administration: Seven Counties Services and WellPower
- Population Health: Seven Counties Services
Special Achievement Recognition: HIT Value Model Platform Adoption Impact Award
Netsmart also recognizes Reserve Care as the recipient of the HIT Value Model Platform Adoption Impact Award, a special achievement award honoring organizations that demonstrate exceptional execution and leadership in advancing a platform-based approach to healthcare technology.
The Platform Adoption Impact Award recognizes providers that successfully deploy multiple integrated solutions, often as early adopters, laying a strong foundation for long-term value realization within the HIT Value Model. Recipients of this award exemplify operational readiness, organizational commitment and a forward-looking vision for technology-enabled care transformation, even when optimization across HIT Value Model dimensions remains underway.
Built on seven dimensions, the HIT Value Model supports providers with a framework to assess current technology utilization and identify opportunities for continued advancement. Netsmart continues to invest in solutions and services that help clients meet changing demands, improve performance and support the delivery of exceptional care. To learn more about the HIT Value Model and how it can help take your organization to the next level, visit our website.
About Netsmart
Netsmart is an industry-leading healthcare technology organization empowering providers to deliver value-based care to the individuals and communities they serve. The Netsmart CareFabric® platform serves as a unified, connected framework of solutions and services for human services, post-acute, payer and public sector communities. Together with our clients and Marketplace vendors, we develop and deliver innovative technology, including electronic health records (EHRs), interoperability, analytics, augmented intelligence (AI), population health management and telehealth solutions and services that assist organizations in transforming the care they deliver. The result has helped make a positive impact on the lives of more than 165 million individuals.
For more than 55 years, Netsmart has helped provider organizations in their efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities we collectively serve. To learn more, visit ntst.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook or X.
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