St. Luke’s University Health Network has earned the 2026 HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence, becoming the first and only health care organization in the world to receive the prestigious honor four times.

The unprecedented achievement — following St. Luke’s awards in 2019, 2020 and 2023 — establishes the network as America’s leader in hospital digital innovation.

The Davies Award recognizes those health care organizations that do far more than merely adopt new technology. It recognizes those that use it in innovative, measurable and sustainable ways to make care safer, improve outcomes and create a better patient experience.

Presented by HIMSS, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the Davies Award is one of health care’s most respected honors. It showcases organizations whose thoughtful, globally innovative applications of information and technology redefine evidence-based best practices and produce significant improvements in clinical care.

St. Luke’s earned its fourth Davies Award for integrating predictive analytics and electronic health record clinical decision support into everyday care in three projects:

• A digital tool helped care teams recognize warning signs sooner. This reduced emergency “code” events by 25.8%, cut unexpected transfers to intensive care after a rapid response by 31.9% and helped save an additional 55 lives over three years.

• A new way of monitoring vancomycin treatment reduced the relative risk of related kidney injury by nearly 60%. It is expected to prevent about 2,022 harmful drug-related events each year and avoid an estimated $16 million in annual costs.

• St. Luke’s created a consistent approach to assessing suicide risk and matching patients with the appropriate level of monitoring and support across its hospitals. Use of the recommended safety measures increased from 50% to 73%, while an estimated $2.93 million in costs was avoided without reducing patient safety.