As a founding program partner of Abbott's Univants of Healthcare Excellence Awards, HIMSS is pleased to recognize and celebrate this year's awardees who are collaborating across disciplines to transform healthcare delivery and the lives of patients.

The prestigious global award program was created with a common vision to inspire and celebrate healthcare excellence.

The 2025 awardees include three top global winners, three teams of distinction and three teams of achievement.

Univants of Healthcare Excellence Top Elite Winners

Radiation Reduction: Increased Safety and Improved Length of Stay for Patients with Suspected Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Emergency Department

Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria

María Cecilia Martín, Fernández de Basoa, Pilar González Romero, María Teresa Concepción Masip, Mónica Fernández del Castillo, Ascanio Carlos Alberto Marichal Hernández

The Pathway to HCV Elimination: Multidisciplinary Team Effort for Improved Identification, Diagnosis and Treatment of HCV Positive Patients
Musashino Red Cross Hospital
Maki Furuya, Nobuharu Tamaki, Noriko Kubota, Marina Muneyama, Masayuki Kurosaki

TBI Strategies: Expediting Patient Flow and Reducing Length of Stay through Blood Biomarker Guided Management of Patients with Suspected Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire of Clermont-Ferrand
Vincent Sapin, Charlotte Oris, Bruno Pereira, Damien Bouvier, Jeannot Schmidt

Univants of Healthcare Excellence Recognition of Distinction

The Fiix Project: Reducing Anticoagulation Variability and Adverse Patient Outcomes through Safe and Cost-Effective Factor II and X (Fiix) Monitoring in Place of Conventional PT-INR Warfarin Monitoring
Landspitali National University Hospital of Iceland
Pall T. Onundarson, Brynja R. Gudmundsdottir, David O. Arnar, Einar S. Bjornsson, Charles W. Francis

Implementation of a Comprehensive Syphilis Screening Strategy for Cost-Effective and Timely Syphilis Management
Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Liming Cheng, Jing Peng, Yong Zhang, Sainan Shu, Huijun Li

Reduced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence with Enhanced 3-Year Survival for Patients Post Liver Transplant
Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Chih-Che Lin, Jen-Yu Cheng, Hsin-You Ou, Chien-Chin Hsu, Wan-Ting Huang

Univants of Healthcare Excellence Recognition of Achievement

Improved Patient Experiences and Decreased Patient Length of Stay in the Emergency Department through a Multidisciplinary Approach
Banner Health and Laboratory Sciences of Arizona
Teri Dahn, Brian Thomas, Chris Zufall, Hites Patel, Gordon Weimer

Personalizing H. Pylori Antibiotic Therapy for Enhanced Safety and H. Pylori Eradication
University Hospitals Cleveland
Navid Sadri, Linda C. Cummings, Leila S. Hojat, Rachel A. Wells

Enhancing Wellness through Guideline Concordant Follow-Up and Treatment for Patients with Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease
National Kidney Foundation in collaboration with Sanford Health
Christina Lankhorst, Andrew Burgard, Clark Casarella, Rochelle Odenbrett, Elizabeth Montgomery

Award submissions are assessed by world-renowned organizations, societies and leaders across healthcare. Winning teams receive local recognition and global amplification of their best practice.

The next application cycle will begin in August 2025.

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.