An impressive lineup of healthcare technology experts and innovators, along with clinicians, patient safety champions, standards developers, young professionals, and students is set to receive an AAMI award or scholarship this year at the association’s popular annual conference. The honors recognize these individuals’ leadership, dedication, and contributions to the association and to the healthcare technology community as a whole.

AAMI President and CEO Robert Jensen offered his congratulations to all the winners.

“Being able to recognize the best and the brightest in healthcare technology is an honor and, honestly, one of the highlights of AAMI’s year,” Jensen said. “This year’s award and scholarship recipients have demonstrated exemplary passion and dedication to helping make healthcare technology safer and more effective. It’s our pleasure to offer our thanks for all of the incredible work they have done and all that they continue to do to elevate and grow the field.”
The winners will be formally recognized during a ceremony at the AAMI 2018 Conference & Expo in Long Beach, CA, on June 2. The conference will run June 1–4.

AAMI Award Winners
The AAMI Foundation's Laufman-Greatbatch Award
Lauren C. Thompson, PhD, director of the Department of Defense/Department of Veterans Affairs Interagency Program Office

AAMI’s most prestigious award is named after two pioneers in the field—Harold Laufman, MD, and Wilson Greatbatch, PhD. It 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. This year’s award will be presented to Lauren Thompson, who has dedicated her 30-year career to providing world-class healthcare to U.S. service members, veterans, and their families by supporting national health data-sharing efforts and promoting interoperability between the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and their private partners.

Thompson was greatly influential in leading the DoD’s and VA’s collaborative efforts to ensure both departments’ electronic health records were fully interoperable and shared an integrated display of data. According to colleagues, the realization of this goal continues to promote patient-centric healthcare experiences, seamless care transitions, and improvements in health outcomes for the more than 15 million patients who receive care from both departments.

The AAMI Foundation & ACCE's Robert L. Morris Humanitarian Award

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