How to Apply
Call for Case Studies
HIMSS and co-sponsors American Society for Quality (ASQ), National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) are actively seeking real-world success stories to be peer-reviewed for consideration as Stories of Success! Case Studies, for the intent of educating your peers in the industry. Download the Case Studies submission form.
The next All Call for Case Studies will be:
Open: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Deadline for submissions: Friday, May 9, 2012
For questions and more information on the Stories of Success! Program, please contact Pat Johnson at pjohnson@himss.org or 312-915-9264.
The purpose of the Stories of Success! all call is to highlight and demonstrate how health IT has been leveraged to fulfill national patient safety goals of The Joint Commission (View the patient safety goals); national priorities from the National Priorities Partnership (View the NPP Goals) and Partnership for Patients Goals (View the goals).
The application submission form was developed from the SQUIRE methodology [Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE)] www.squire-statement.org
- The SQUIRE Guidelines help authors write excellent, usable articles about quality improvement/performance improvement in healthcare so that their findings can be easily discovered and widely disseminated, thus spreading improvement work to a broader population.
- The following journals support the SQUIRE guidelines: American Journal of Nursing, Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal, Canadian Journal of Diabetes, Implementation Science, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Journal of General Internal Med, Journal of Nursing Care Quality, Quality & Safety in Health Care
The Stories of Success Peer Review Body modified the SQUIRE methodology with the intent to capture from applicants how health IT impacted patient safety and quality outcomes.
An essential component of completing a submission for Stories of Success! is answering the application criteria as closely as possible with narrative backed by rich data metrics substantiating the described processes, improvements, and outcomes.