59 entries shortlisted for 2012 EHI Awards

Published: 11-Sep-2012

Event recognises excellence in healthcare IT and communications


The positive impact of healthcare IT and communication systems has come under the spotlight with the announcement of the shortlist for the 2012 E Health Insider Awards.

A total of 53 entries have made it onto the shortlist in 11 categories. In addition, a public vote is also continuing to decide who will take home the title of Healthcare IT Champion of the Year . The six on the shortlist are Anne Cooper, national clinical lead for nursing at the Department of Health’s Informatics Directorate; Neil Darvill, director of health informatics at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Christine Walters, associate director of IM&T at The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; Enid Povey, associate director of clinical information and development at NHS Direct; Andrew Hooper, head of IM&T and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

The full shortlist is as follows:

Most Promising IT to Support Clinical Commissioning

  • Staffordshire Commissioning Support Services: For its ‘model of insight’ project aimed at providing a single repository for patient information, including complaints and PALS information so that themes and trends can be identified
  • NHS Sheffield: For its primary care dashboard that incorporates unscheduled care activity, risk stratification and details of resource allocation for individual patients
  • West Midlands Ambulance Service: For its NHS Pathways Directory of Services Commissioning Intelligence Dashboard, which directs 999 callers to the most appropriate service for their needs
  • NHS North of Tyne Information Services: For its Reporting Analysis and Intelligence Delivering Results (RAIDR) system, which provides primary care and commissioning professionals with a single portal for all their information needs
  • Healium IT Ltd and Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire NHS Cluster: For its ReferralPoint solution, which provides GPs with near real-time referral reports to enable referral patterns to be tracked

Best Use of Social Media in Healthcare

  • MedicineAfrica: Having worked in Somaliland since 2007, MedicineAfrica has exploited the telecommunications infrastructure to deliver regular post-graduate training, mentoring and supervision to senior medical students and graduating doctors
  • Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: For its i-TC Peer to Peer website, which offers a blend of outreach work, staff training, formal psychotherapies and a mini therapeutic community for sufferers of personality disorders and related complex mental health problems
  • Breaking Free Online: A computerised treatment programme for substance misuse the can be accessed by patients via mobile devices as well as the internet
  • City ehealth Research Centre: A twitter-based early warning and risk communication system for swine flu
  • HealthUnlocked: A rapidly-growing social network for health information

Outstanding Work in IT-enabled Change in Healthcare

  • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Addiction Services: A web-based data collection system for injecting equipment providers
  • Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: For its ‘papyrus to PC’ project, which redesigned systems within A&E to incorporate electronic data capture and processes
  • Glasgow Royal Infirmary: For its virtual fracture clinic, which triages patients to the most appropriate treatment route
  • Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust: For its QlikView reporting and risk analysis system
  • The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hosptials NHS Trust : For the first UK IT-enabled case management system, Medworxx

Best Use of Telehealth and Telecare

  • Leicestershire Nutrition and Dietetic Service: For its weight management texting service
  • Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: For its teleophthalmology service, which triages retinal/macular patients
  • The National Musculoskeletal Advice and Triage Service: For its work to improve the triaging of musculoskeletal patients
  • NHS Lothian and East Lothian Council: For its telecare service rolled out in care homes in a bid to prevent falls

Best Use of IT to Promote Patient Safety

  • Royal United Hospital Bath NHS: For its electronic nurse assessments, which rate patients against 12 key areas to comply with national and local policy and guidance
  • University Hospitals Birmingham: For its Healthcare Evaluation Data patient safety and quality performance benchmarking system
  • NHS Ayrshire and Arran Pharmacy Department: For its electronic prescribing pharmaceutical care priority screening tool
  • Health and Social Care Information Centre: For the NHS Safety Thermometer, which aims to reduce pressure ulcers, falls, urinary tract infections and blood clots
  • Public Health Wales: For its harm reduction database

Best Use of Mobile Technology in Healthcare

  • Emergency Medical Retrieval System: This service provides critical care, transport and retrieval for remote and rural areas of Scotland
  • Microtest Ltd: For GURU, an interoperable web-based clinical data sharing solution
  • Whiston Hospital Plastic Surgery Department: For its burns app, which enables doctors to quickly and accurately assess the extent of a burn by shading a diagram on the screen
  • Medway Community Healthcare and Advanced Health & Care: For iNurse, which allows community clinicians to record and communicate patient care information using smartphone and tablet technology

Excellence in Major Healthcare IT Development

  • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde EPR Team and Orion Health: For the electronic patient record programme
  • Logica: For its Defence Medical Information Capability Programme system for the UK Ministry of Defence
  • NHS Tayside, the University of Dundee and the Scottish Diabetes Group: For its Scottish Care Information Diabetes Collaboration web-based clinical information system supporting diabetes care
  • Eduserv, NHS24 and Atos: For their work to integrate NHS24 systems onto a single content management solution

Healthcare IT Product Innovation

  • Mongoose and Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: For HealthView, a medical search engine for patient data
  • Netcall: For its Appointment Management Cycle, providing an end-to-end patient communication system that streamlines the appointment management process
  • IDBS: For its Oncogy Research Information System
  • Mayden: For IAPTus, a psychological therapies patient management system
  • Informatics Merseyside and NDL: For implementing a holistic agile working solution across all partner trusts

Outstanding Work in Healthcare Imaging informatics

  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust: For its radiology and laboratory medicine requesting and reporting system
  • Burnbank Systems: For its image exchange portal
  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: For the integration of a laparoscopic theatre to RIS/PACS

The CCIO Award for Clinical IT Leadership

  • The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust: For its strategy to provide an electronic patient record system across all areas
  • Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust: For NHS Hack Day, which was set up to stimulate the regeneration of healthcare IT through the use and promotion of open source software in clinican-led events
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital: For OpenEyes, a collaborative, open source project with the goal of producing a licence-free framework for continuous development of clinically-led electronic patient record systems
  • Department of Health Informatics Directorate – Clinical Division: For its Leadership for Informed Practice programme
  • Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: For the Surgical eLogbook

Innovation in Healthcare Integration

  • The Scottish Government: For its Eyecare Integration Project, which electronically connects all community optometrists to hospital departments
  • NHS Salford: For its Co-ordinate My Care system, which integrates end-of-life care information across a variety of healthcare IT systems
  • Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust: An innovative browser-based software solution for the collection, analysis and publication of patient reported outcome measures
  • Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: For its single view clinical portal
  • Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Trust: For its ICE solution, which removes paper processes and improves discharge arrangements

For more details on the awards, visit the website by clicking here

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