For the third time, the Working Group on Technology Assessment and Quality Development in Health Care of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) received the IMIA Working Group of the Year Award for their activities and achievements in the last year. The IMIA Working Group closely collaborates with the sister Working Group on Assessment of Health Information Systems of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). Members of both working groups met at HEC 2016 in Munich to receive the award. More details on the working group are available at https://iig.umit.at/efmi.

From left to right: Elske Ammenwerth (chair EFMI WG), Philipp Scott (IMIA WG), Nicolet de Keizer (EFMI WG), Andrew Georgiou (co-chair IMIA WG), Pirkko Nykänen (co-chair EFMI WG).

Elske Ammenwerth and Philipp Scott receive the award on behalf of the IMIA WG chairs.