The Māori of New Zealand have it right

The Māori of New Zealand have it right. Inaugural winner of Global Accelerator Award named by Health Strategy Innovation Cell based at Massey College at the University of Toronto

(MMD Newswire) September 15, 2009 -- The Global Accelerator Award was announced today by Dr. Neil Seeman who heads the Health Strategy Innovation Cell.

Winners are organizations or people who have helped put into action an idea that holds the promise of dramatically improving patient care anywhere in the world. The Accelerator Award is based on an Innovation Cell methodology that analyzes which organizations or people in healthcare have put an idea into action that has generated significant positive "buzz" or "chatter"on the World Wide Web. Details are available here: www.myhealthinnovation.com

The Global Accelerator Award is powered by the Health Strategy Innovation Cell based at Massey College at the University of Toronto. The Innovation Cell specializes in making sense of online patient conversations around the world.

Awards will be made frequently but not more than once a week. Our collaboration with www.Longwoods.com will provide us with a large audience of health policy followers with an interest in innovation on a global scale.

The award's logo symbolizes the difficult route that innovation can take and sometimes ending up very close to the original idea or concept.

THE INAUGURAL WINNER: September 15, 2009

The inaugural winner of the Global Accelerator Award is Te Ao Auahatanga Hauora Māori (www.voxy.co.nz/politics/turia-turia-announces-20m-tap-maori-health-innovation/5/23352) -- the Māori Health Innovation Fund for its new fund that inspires Māori health providers wishing to develop and implement a pilot or new service, share and spread innovative information. The fund was announced by the Hon. Tariana Turia, New Zealand MP for Te Tai Hauāuru and Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, on September 7th.

"A lot of Māori providers have already adopted innovative ways to tailor their services beyond what they are paid to do," the Minister said. "This fund will help them get the resources they need to grow those innovative services or develop new ones that have a whānau ora approach and that will help improve Māori health outcomes."

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