HIM Team Excellence Awards:
An award to recognize outstanding efforts by a team in one of the 3 categories:
- Best Practice
- Financial Impact
- Collaboration
The HIM Team Excellence Award recognizes outstanding effort by a department or team (two or more individuals) in meeting the challenges of the ever changing HIM environment through a new process or technique. A department or team can be nominated for a project that falls into one or more of the following three general categories. Nominations can be made here.
- Best Practice: defined as processes and activities that have been shown in practice to be the most effective or practical techniques gained from experience that organizations may use to improve internal processes.
- Financial Impact: defined as activities that create a positive impact on an institution’s bottom line.
- Collaboration: defined as working jointly within or across departments or with external organizations towards a common goal.
HIM Team Excellence Award Winners (formerly HIM Innovation Awards, HIM Collaboration Awards):
2023 HIM Innovation & Collaboration Award
- Collaboration - Community HealthLink Medical Records Team
2021 HIM Innovation & Collaboration Awards
- Best Practice – Emerson Hospital – Clerical team
- Financial Impact – Mass General Brigham – Coding Team
- Collaboration – South Shore Health HIM Departments, at South Shore Health HIM Departments, at South Shore Medical Center and South Shore Hospital – Colleagues and Management Team
2020 HIM Innovation & Collaboration Awards
- Best Practice – DRG Validation Team from Umass Memorial Healthcare
2019 HIM Innovation & Collaboration Awards
- Best Practice – Partners Healthcare Partners Enterprise Health Information Management (HIM) Release of Information (ROI) and Audit Teams
- Financial Impact – Emerson Hospital Coding Team
- Collaboration – Cooley-Dickinson ED Coding Team
2018 HIM Innovation & Collaboration Awards
- Collaboration – Westborough Behavioral Health -HIM department
2017 HIM Innovation & Collaboration Awards
- Best Practice – Health Information ManagementFederal Bureau of Prison, Federal Medical Center Devens
- Financial Impact – Cooley-Dickinson Hospital CDI Team
- Collaboration – Lawrence General Hospital -CDI, Quality/Risk and DRG Collaboration Team
2016 HIM Innovation & Collaboration Awards
- KIP Coach Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston Children’s Hospital Coding Team
2015 HIM Innovation & Collaboration Awards
- Best Practice – Massachusetts General Hospital – Privacy Office
- Collaboration – Boston Children’s Hospital – Patient Financial Services/Health Information Management ROI Team
- Collaboration and Best Practice – Medical Record Associates, LLC – MRA EMMI System Implementation Team
2014 HIM Innovation Awards
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and its Privacy Team
- Family Health Center of Worcester – “The Scanning Project”
- Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital and KYOS System, Inc.
2013 HIM Innovation Awards
- Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Program
2012 HIM Innovation Awards
- East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) (Collaboration)
- Morton Hospital (Collaboration)
- Harvard University Health Services (HUHS)
- (Best Practice/Collaboration)
- North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) (Collaboration)
- Emerson Hospital (Best Practice/Collaboration/Financial Impact)
2010-2011 HIM Innovation Awards
- NE Sinai (Collaboration Category)
2009-2010 HIM Innovation Awards
- South Shore Hospital (Financial Impact Category)
- Lawrence General Hospital (Best Practice Category)
2008 HIM Collaboration Awards
- Anna Jacques Hospital Coding Team (winner)
- Mass General Hospital ROI Team (honorable mention)
- Brigham & Women’s Hospital HIS Dept (honorable mention)
2007 HIM Collaboration Awards
- Jordan Hospital HIM Dept
- Lahey Clinic Documentum Team
- Soldiers Home Chelsea HIM Dept
Examples:
- Staff education and professional development including mentoring resulting in a higher quality of work product or improving process efficiencies
- Introduction of creative practice innovations through advances in technology
- Development of more effective quality management measures
- New methods of promoting employee motivation and job satisfaction
- Successful systems improvement, upgrade or process change that resulted in demonstrable increase in revenue, savings in expenses, staff time or other types of cost reductions
- Team effort in implementation of new initiatives or systems: e.g., EHR, physician order entry, web-based transcription, voice recognition, privacy and confidentiality
- Team effort in a department or facility reorganization, merger or relocation
Eligibility:
- At least one member of the team must be a MaHIMA member.
- The award-worthy effort must have occurred and been largely completed within 24 months of the award submission date
Guidelines for submission:
- Describe the challenge being addressed and the goal of the project
- Describe the steps taken, provide illustrative materials as appropriate
- Describe the outcomes. Be as specific as possible as to how the outcome met the challenges and goals of the project
- Provide a complete list of department or team members to be recognized
- Recognition: Award certificates will be presented at the facility or worksite during AHIMA’s Health Information Professional Week in March.
- Winners will be showcased in MaHIMA Connect and asked to participate as a presenter in a future MaHIMA program
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