As a founding program partner of Abbott's Univants of Healthcare Excellence Awards, HIMSS is pleased to recognize and celebrate the 12 team awardees who are collaborating across disciplines to transform healthcare delivery and the lives of patients.
Each of the recognized teams achieved measurably better healthcare with innovative, diverse and inspiring outcomes that spanned multiple disease states, clinical pathways, geographical locals and healthcare disciplines.
Univants of Healthcare Excellence Top Elite Winners
GetCheckedOnline: Better access to testing for sexually-transmitted and blood-borne infections
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control
Devon Haag, Meghan McLennan, Garth Graham, Mark Gilbert, Susie van der Valk
Early detection of metabolic-dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease using FIB-4
Premier Integrated Labs Sdn Bhd
Yoke Lee Low, Hareeff Muhammed, Leslie Charles Lai Chin Loy, Mun Yee, Evonne Kong
Improved management of patients with high LDL-C through electronic health record-directed algorithms for guideline-concordant high-intensity statin prescribing
Kaiser Permanente Southern California
Matthew Mefford, Michael Kanter, Ronald Scott, Kristi Reynolds, Tracy Imley
Univants of Healthcare Excellence Recognition of Distinction
Improving equity in maternal and newborn outcomes by eliminating disparities in maternal drug screening
Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Vahid Azimi, Jeannie Kelly, Lauren Nacke, Noor Riaz, Stephen Roper
Improving access to health services in vulnerable communities affected by war
Esculab
Viktoriia Honcharenko, Anna Konyk, Olena Yanchinska, Liudmyla Kostiuk, Iryna Mandzyuk
Improved patient outcomes facilitated by C-peptide testing, enabling reclassification and therapeutic changes for patients with diabetes
University Hospital of Wales
Arshiya Tabasum, Colin Dayan, Rowan Hellier, Carol Evans, Julia Johansson Evans
Univants of Healthcare Excellence Recognition of Achievement
Reducing unnecessary CT scans in the emergency department with new mild head injury assessment pathway
Klinikum Lüneburg
Felix Brüning-Wolter, Meike Schrader, Nicola Wolff, Thomas Rodt, Jörg Cramer
The Kansas Two-Step: Simplifying the diagnosis of clostridioides difficile at an academic medical center
The University of Kansas Health System
Matthew Loeb, Matt Humphrey, Sarah Mester, Matt Shoemaker, Maggie Reavis
No time to lose with lives on the line - Maximizing efficiency in the lab to save more lives through organ donation
Southwest Transplant Alliance
Selena Warden, Doug Butler, Sean Forquer, Reid Freeman, Cristina Solomon
The Women and Heart Program - Empowering women’s health through early identification and prevention of coronary risk
Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
Andrea Snagić, Goran Krstačić, Ante Miljak, Sonja Frančula-Zaninović
Reducing unnecessary admissions associated with pediatric mononucleosis via implementation of EBV IgM testing in the emergency department
Emergency Clinical County Hospital Targu Mures
Oana Roxana Oprea, Karoly Vecsei, Florina Floristeanu, Lucia Mezei, Dobreanu Minodora
Establishment of a monomer prolactin detection method and specific reference interval to enhance the ability to identify macroprolactinemia
Huashan Hospital Fudan University
Ming Guan, Yao Hu, Hongying Ye, Zhaoyun Zhang, Yao Zhao
Winners were selected by a blinded and comprehensive scoring rubric as judged by healthcare professionals. The application cycle for UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence awards in 2025 opens Nov. 15, 2024.
HIMSS’s fellow founding program partners for the UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence award program include the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC), Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC), EHMA (European Health Management Association), Modern Healthcare, National Association of Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), and the Institute of Health Economics (IHE); each in partnership with Abbott.
The 2024 awardees include three top global winners, three teams of distinction and six teams of achievement.
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