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Honors either a peer-reviewed AMIA paper published in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium or peer-reviewed article published in JAMIA or other journals publishing medical informatics-related content that best exemplifies the spirit and scholarship of Diana Forsythe’s work at the intersection of informatics and social sciences with a cash prize. Selection is determined by a sub-committee of the AMIA Awards Committee and the AMIA People and Organizational Issues Working Group, with the award presented annually at the AMIA Annual Symposium.

Current and Past Winners

2025

Designing for caregiving networks: a case study of primary caregivers of children with medical complexity

Journal of the American Medical Association. 2024;31:1151-62

  • Eleanore Rae Scheer
  • Nicole Werner
  • Ryan Coller
  • Carrie Nacht
  • Lauren Petty
  • Mengwei Tang
  • Mary Ehlenbach
  • Michelle Kelly
  • Sara Finesilver
  • Gemma Warner
  • Barbara Katz
  • Jessica Keim-Malpass
  • Christopher Lunsford
  • Lisa Letzkus
  • Shaalini Sanjiv Desai
  • Rupa Valdez

2024

Utopia versus dystopia: Professional perspectives on the impact of healthcare artificial intelligence on clinical roles and skills

International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2023;169:104903

  • Yves Saint James Aquino
  • Wendy Rogers
  • Annette Braunack-Mayer
  • Helen Frazer
  • Khin Than Win
  • Nehmat Houssami
  • Christopher Degeling
  • Christopher Semsarian
  • Stacy Carter

2023

Articulation of postsurgical patient discharges: Coordinating care transitions from hospital to home

Journal of the American Medical Association. 2022;29:1546-58

  •  Joanna Abraham
  • Madhumitha Kandasamy
  • Ashley Huggins

2022

Putting the social back into sociotechnical: Case studies of co-design in digital health

Journal of the American Medical Association. 2021;28:284-93

  • Chrysanthi Papoutsi
  • Joseph Wherton
  • Sara Shaw
  • Clare Morrison
  • Trisha Greenhalgh
Disappearing expertise in clinical automation: Barcode medication administration and nurse autonomy

Journal of the American Medical Association. 2021;28:232-8

  • Jennifer Hong
  • Catherine Ivory
  • Courtney VanHouten
  • Christopher Simpson
  • Laurie Lovett Novak

2021

Moving patients from emergency department to medical intensive care unit: Tracing barriers and root contributors

International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2020;133:104012

  • Joanna Abraham
  • Shirley Burton
  • Howard Gordon

2020

Electronic health records implementation in Morocco: Challenges of silo efforts and recommendations for improvements

International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2019;129:430-7

  • Rachida Parks
  • Rolf Wigand
  • Mohammed Bennani Othmani
  • Zineb Serhier
  • Omar Bouhaddou

2019

Anglicization of hospital information systems: Managing diversity alongside particularity

International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2018;119:88-93

  •  Hajar Mozaffar
  • Robin Williams
  • Kathrin Cresswell
  • Aziz Sheikh

2018

Technology meets tradition: The perceived impact of the introduction of information and communication technology on ward rounds in the intensive care unit

International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2017;105:49-58

  • Jennifer Plumb
  • Isla Hains
  • Michael Parr
  • David Milliss
  • Robert Herkes
  • Johanna Westbrook

2017

The hidden lives of nurses’ cognitive artifacts

Applied Clinical Informatics. 2016;7:832-49

  • Jacquelyn Blaz
  • Alexa Doig
  • Kristin Cloyes
  • Nancy Staggers

2016

The EHR and building the patient's story: A qualitative investigation of how EHR use obstructs a vital clinical activity

International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2015;84:1019-28

  • Lara Varpio
  • Judy Rashotte
  • Kathy Day
  • James King
  • Craig Kuziemsky
  • Avi Parush

2015

The social life of health records: Understanding families' experiences of autism

Social Science & Medicine. 2014; 117:50-7

  • Amber Angell
  • Olga Solomon

2014

What matters to older people with assisted living needs? A phenomenological analysis of the use and non-use of telehealth and telecare

Social Science & Medicine. 2013; 93:86-94

  • Trisha Greenhalgh
  • Joe Wherton
  • Paul Sugarhood
  • Sue Hinder
  • Rob Procter
  • Rob Stones

2013

Benefit or burden? A sociotechnical analysis of diagnostic computer kiosks in four California hospital emergency departments

Social Science & Medicine. 2012;75:2378-85

  • Sara Ackerman
  • Kathleen Tebb
  • John Stein
  • Bradley Frazee
  • Gregory Hendey
  • Laura Schmidt
  • Ralph Gonzales

2012

Unity in diversity: Electronic patient record use in multidisciplinary practice

Information Systems Research. 2011;22:547-64

  • Eivor Oborn
  • Michael Barrett
  • Elizabeth Davidson

2011

Making sense of professional identities: Stories of medical professionals and new technologies

Human Relations. 2010; 63:1879-901

  • Maja Korica
  • Eamonn Molloy

2010

Challenges to effective crisis management: Using information and communication technologies to coordinate emergency medical services and emergency department teams.

International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2009;78:259-69

  • Madhu C. Reddy
  • Sharoda A. Paul
  • Joanna Abraham
  • Michael McNeese
  • Christopher DeFlitch
  • John Yen

2009

Diagnosis at a distance: The invisible work of patients and healthcare professionals in cardiac telemonitoring technology

Sociology of Health & Illness. 2008;30:272-88

  • Nelly Oudshoorn

2008

Telemedicine in the upper Amazon: Interplay with local health care practices

Management Information Systems Quarterly. 2007;31:403-25

  • Gianluca Miscione

2007

The work to make telemedicine work: A social and articulative view

Social Science & Medicine. 2006;62:2754-67

  • David Nicolini

2006

Physicians, patients, and the electronic health record: An ethnographic analysis

Annals of Family Medicine. 2006;4:124-31

  • William Ventres
  • Sarah Kooienga
  • Nancy Vuckovic
  • Ryan Marlin
  • Peggy Nygren
  • Valerie Stewart

2005

Toward an ontology of geo-reasoning to aid response to weapons of mass destruction

AMIA Symposium Proceedings. 2005:400–404

  • David Kirsh
  • Nicole Peterson
  • Leslie Lenert

2004

Mother knows best: Medical record management for patients with spina bifida during transition from pediatric to adult care

AMIA Symposium Proceedings. 2005:580–584

  • Carston S. Østerlund
  • Nienke Dosa
  • Catherine Arnott Smith

2003

IT, gender, and professional practice: Or, why an automated drug distribution system was sent back to the manufacturer

Science, Technology, & Human Values. 2002:27:379-403

  • Joel Novek

2002

Asking questions: Information needs in a surgical intensive care unit

AMIA Symposium Proceedings. 2002:647-51

  • Madhu Reddy
  • Wanda Pratt
  • Paul Dourish
  • Michael Shabot

2001

Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice: The case of telepsychiatry

Social Science & Medicine. 2001;52:1889-901

  • Carl May
  • Linda Gask
  • Theresa Atkinson
  • Nicola Ellis
  • Frances Mair
  • Aneez Esmail