HIMSS Celebrates Recipients of Univants of Healthcare Excellence Awards

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.  

The 2024 awardees include three top global winners, three teams of distinction and six teams of achievement. 

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.