Recognizing Excellence in Healthcare Technology
Each year, the AAMI Foundation confers four awards:
- The Laufman-Greatbatch Award
- The AAMI Foundation & Institute for Technology in Health Care Clinical Solution Award
- The AAMI Foundation & ACCE Robert L. Morris Humanitarian Award
- The AAMI Foundation & TRIMEDX John D. Hughes Iconoclast Award
The deadline is January 19, 2024 AAMI Awards | AAMI
AAMI Foundation’s Laufman-Greatbatch Award
Named after two pioneers in the field—Harold Laufman, MD and Wilson Greatbatch, PhD—this highly regarded award honors an individual or group that has made a unique and significant contribution to the advancement of healthcare technology and systems, service, patient care, or patient safety.
Candidates must demonstrate:
- A significant, singular, and global impact on the advancement of patient care or patient safety through the advancement, development, enhancement, or creation of a specific medical device, technology, system, or service.
Groups or individuals who have made critical contributions to the enhancement of patient care through technology are eligible to receive this award. The award includes a $5,000 check and a plaque.
The AAMI Foundation & Institute for Technology in Health Care Clinical Solution Award
This award honors a healthcare technology professional or group that has applied innovative clinical engineering practices or principles to solve one or more significant clinical patient care problems or challenges facing a patient population, community, or group.
Candidates must demonstrate:
- Innovative and creative application of clinical engineering practices that fundamentally solved a problem or challenge that resulted in the improvement of healthcare delivery for (or well-being of) a patient population, community, or group.
- That a solution was developed by an individual or group that works or is employed in a clinical setting (hospital, ambulatory clinic, learning institution, or other healthcare setting).
Candidates should demonstrate:
- The results of a study that provides a practical solution of a patient care problem or challenge through the application of clinical engineering ingenuity. This should be a “published” study but not required.
- That the solution can be applied by the broader medical or healthcare technology management (HTM) field in multiple clinical settings for the benefit of multiple patient populations, communities, or groups.
- That the solution involved multiple disciplines or healthcare professionals including, but not limited to, information technology specialists, nurses, physicians, medical technicians, researchers, etc. A solid and clear example of intention to promote the continued advancement of HTM applications and innovations to specific patient care problems or challenges.
Thanks to the generous support of the Institute for Technology in Health Care (ITHC), this award includes a check for $1,500 and a plaque.
AAMI Foundation & ACCE’s Robert L. Morris Humanitarian Award
This award—honoring the late humanitarian Robert Morris—recognizes individuals or organizations whose humanitarian efforts have applied healthcare technology to improving global human conditions.
Candidates must demonstrate:
- Active participation in meaningful worldwide healthcare technology related projects for at least three or more years.
- A leading role in planning or implementing healthcare technology, international outreach, or educational programs.
- Volunteerism and altruistic components associated with these international projects.
Outstanding qualities as a positive role model, and a passion and dedication whether through work-related humanitarian efforts or through “extracurricular activities” as exemplified by Robert Morris.
Candidates should demonstrate:
- An impact on quality, accessibility, efficacy, and/or safety of health technology deployment and/or application in international regions.
- Actions of sharing program outcomes through oral and/or printed mediums.
- Facilitation to establish a sustainable program.
NOTE: This award is not limited to engineers. Biomedical equipment technicians, engineers, physicians, computer software engineers, and government and nonprofit employees may qualify. Thanks to the generous support of ACCE, this award includes a check for $1,000 and a plaque.
The AAMI Foundation & TRIMEDX John D. Hughes Iconoclast Award
This award recognizes an individual who pushes the boundaries of the HTM profession and demonstrates individual excellence, achievement, and leadership. Named in honor of former AAMI Board Member John D. Hughes, Jr., a healthcare technology management (HTM) leader known for his willingness to challenge the status quo.
Candidates must demonstrate:
- A dedication to achievement in the HTM field.
- Significant contribution(s) to an important issue or issues facing their organization and/or the industry as a whole that push the general thinking or position currently in place.
- Leadership and a professional commitment to the field by writing articles for industry publications, participating in committees, and speaking at industry events.
Candidates should also demonstrate:
- The ability to professionally challenge a commonly held perspective or position that results in moving an HTM program forward.
- Leadership in promoting the profession to the C-suite, clinicians, prospective students, and other healthcare professionals.
- Evidence of HTM leadership and excellence in the workplace through, for example, contributions to management improvements, patient care, cost savings, or improvement in the use or impact of technology.
- Leadership contribution to national, state, or local HTM organizations.
- Involvement in standards development through organizations such as AAMI, NFPA, or The Joint Commission, or an individual’s own organization.
- Substantial professional contributions to AAMI.
Nominators may submit evidence of activities relevant to this award and to the candidate's achievements. Thanks to the generous support of TRIMEDX, this award includes a $1,000 check and plaque.