Phoenix, AZ — June 4, 2020 – Medigy HITMC announced today that it has selected Barby Ingle as an honoree for the 2020 Medigy HITMC Awards in the Patient Advocate of the Year category.
Every year, the Healthcare and IT Marketing Community (HITMC) comes together to honor the individuals and organizations who distinguished themselves over the past year. All the nominations are reviewed by a selection committee of industry veterans and only a few are chosen as honorees in each category. Barby Ingle is President of International Pain Foundation (iPain), Amazon best selling author, and Reality TV Personality sharing her powerful story about life-changing events that forced reflection and sprouts her journey from Wheels to Heals.
“Honorees like Barby Ingle represent the best of healthcare marketing, PR and communications,” said John Lynn, Chief Editor and Founder at Healthcare Scene, the company behind HITMC. “This year’s honorees all demonstrated incredible innovation, resourcefulness and creativity.”
The 2020 Medigy HITMC Awards will be handed out at an online event on June 30th, 2020. All are welcome to register and attend.
About Barby Ingle
Barby Ingle is a best-selling author, reality personality, and lives with reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), migralepsy, endometriosis and other pain disorders. Barby is a chronic pain educator, patient advocate, and president of the International Pain Foundation. She is also a motivational speaker and best-selling author on pain topics. Her blog, reality shows and media appearances are used as a platform to help her become an ePatient advocate, and she now travels the country attending healthcare conferences, speaking publicly, sharing her story, educating and advocating for patients across the globe. She has received more than 20 accommodations over the years for her advocacy work including; 2012 WEGO Health Ms. Congeniality, 2012 NAF You Are Our Hero Award, 2013 International Inspirational Luminary, 2015 IDA Impact Award, and 2016 WEGO Health Lifetime Achievement. In 2017, Barby was named a Health Information Technology Top 100 Influencer by HealthScene and Top 20 Health Influencer by Insider Monkey Magazine. In 2018, Barby received the Reality All Star Reunion Superstar award for her Social Media efforts and Top 50 Chronic Pain Advocates. In Feb. 2019 Barby is listed in the top 100 social media advocates for Rare Diseases. In 2020, Barby is listed in the top 50 social media advocates for Rare Diseases and top 10 Healthcare Influencers for All Marketers to Follow.
About The HITMC Awards
HITMC is a community – bound together by a passion for and a love of PR, communications and marketing in healthcare and Health IT. The central idea behind HITMC is to bring together all the smart, innovative and hard-working healthcare professionals so that we can learn from each other. We enable this by creating a culture where sharing, mutual respect and lifting each other up is the norm. The annual HITMC Awards are an embodiment of this ethos. They are meant to celebrate the best individuals and organizations who have elevated healthcare marketing, PR and communications in the past year. For more information, visit 2020-medigy-hitmc-awards
