THE POWER PRESS AWARDS

Seven Honors for Healthcare’s Essential Storytellers

Five reporting awards recognize journalism across the issues shaping healthcare today. Two signature honors celebrate enduring contribution and meaningful industry leadership.

THE REPORTING AWARDS

Five Reporting Awards for the Work That Shapes Understanding

Each award recognizes reporting that helps healthcare audiences understand complex change, evaluate emerging ideas, and make better decisions.

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Recognizing reporting that helps the industry understand the forces reshaping healthcare delivery, operations, access, and experience.

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02

Recognizing clear, responsible reporting on how artificial intelligence is changing healthcare—and where its promises and risks still require scrutiny.

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03

Recognizing reporting that brings important clinical advances, care models, and patient-impacting innovations into focus.

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Recognizing reporting that makes complex issues involving data, infrastructure, standards, access, and interoperability understandable.

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Recognizing reporting that examines the decisions, strategies, and people guiding healthcare through change.

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SIGNATURE HONORS

Two Signature Honors for Lasting Impact

The evening also recognizes one Lifetime Achievement recipient and names the Healthcare Innovator of the Year.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

Lifetime Achievement

Recognizing a journalist whose body of work has made a lasting contribution to healthcare understanding, accountability, and public discourse.

HEALTHCARE INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

Healthcare Innovator of the Year

Recognizing an individual whose leadership, ideas, or work have meaningfully advanced healthcare and helped shape its future.

HOW THE AWARDS WORK

Independent Selection. Clear Boundaries.

Sponsors do not nominate, judge, or select recipients. Editorial decisions remain separate from commercial participation.

Independent Selection

Award recipients are identified through an editorial process focused on the quality, clarity, relevance, and impact of the work.

No Sponsor Influence

Presenting partners do not nominate candidates, participate in judging, or influence recipient selection.

Editorial Integrity

The awards recognize journalism and leadership on their own merits, with clear separation between recognition and sponsorship.

Join Us in Honoring Healthcare’s Essential Storytellers

Join us at VU Rooftop on April 4, 2027, for an evening honoring the journalists and leaders whose work helps healthcare understand what matters.