Book of the Year Award

Purpose
The Book of the Year Award honors a book that offers outstanding practical guidance and/or strategic insight for healthcare information and management systems professionals.

Eligibility
To be eligible for the Book of the Year Award, a book must be an original work on a topic significant to the healthcare information management and management systems field that was published between July 2004 and June 2005.

Award Frequency and Timing
The Book of the Year Award is given every year at the Annual Awards Dinner at the Annual Conference and Exhibition

Criteria
Criteria for the selection of the Book of the Year Award include:
Relevance of subject and content

• Relevance to a broad range of industry professionals
• Timeliness of content

Contribution to the Field

• Content provides new, unique, or alternative thoughts and understanding of the topic
• Content is provocative and likely to motivate application of the concepts and ideas or promote further thought on the subject
• Content is substantiated by data, appropriate references, and/or logical thought processes

Quality

• Content is easy to-read and catches and maintains the reader's attention
• Content is organized and presented in a manner that allows the reader to recognize key thoughts or findings
• Tables, graphs, and other figures are used appropriately and with sufficient explanation to enhance the understanding or detailed knowledge of the reader

The Nomination Process
Nominations for the Book of the Year Award may come from any of the following sources:

• Individual HIMSS members and students, including self-nomination
• Editorial Review Board members
• Editors and other professionals from other industry publications

The Book of the Year Award nominations must include the following:

• A concise (no more than 100 words) description of the book, including thesis
• Book outline
• A brief (no more than 200 words) argument for how the book advances the field of healthcare information technology
• Two (2) copies of the published book or publisher's proofs

The Award
The Book of the Year Award consists of:

• Symbol of Recognition
• Publication of information in the HIMSS Insider
• Invitation to the Annual Awards Dinner

Past Recipients
1987 Cost Management for Hospitals, John Nackel, PhD, FHIMSS, George M. J. Kis, and Paul J. Fenaroli (Outstanding Book Award)

1988 NO AWARD GIVEN

1989 Managing Healthcare Information Resources, Homer Schmitz

1990 Productivity Management A Step by Step Guide for Health Care Professionals, by Jack Gilbert

1991 Transforming Healthcare Organizations , by Ellen Marszalek-Gaucher and Richard J. Coffey

1992 Health Care Computer Systems for the 1990s Critical Executive Decisions , by Bernie F. Minard, FHIMSS

1993 NO AWARD GIVEN

1994 Patient Care Information Systems Successful Designs and Implementation , by Erica L. Drazen, Jami L. Ritter, Jane B. Metzger, and Mark K. Schneider

1995 NO AWARD GIVEN

1996 NO AWARD GIVEN

1997 The Systems Challenge , by Nancy Kreider and Becky Haselton, RN

1998 Agility in Healthcare Strategies for Mastering Turbulent Markets, by Steven Goldman, Carol B. Graham

1999 The Well Managed Healthcare Organization, Fourth Edition Health Administration Press , byJohn Griffith, FACHE

2000 Technology and The Future of Health Care , by David Ellis

2001 Futurescan 2001: A Millennium Forecast of Healthcare Trends 2001-2005 , by Russell C. Coile, Jr.

2002 The Impact of Information Technology on Patient Safety , edited by Russell F. Lewis

2003 Return on Investment: Maximizing the Value of Healthcare Information Technology, by Pam W. Arlotto, FHIMSS and Jim Oakes

2004 Consumer Informatics: Applications and Strategies for Cyber Health Care, edited by Rosemary Nelson, AN, BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, and Marion J. Ball, EdD, FHIMSS, FCHIME

For more information, please contact Nancy Vitucci at 312-915-9238.

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