2009 Healthcare IM&T product innovation

Winner

MCP Systems Consultants & Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust – 3M RFID case note tracking system

An American RFID system installed at Walsall Manor Hospital by MCP Systems Consultants has transformed the hospital’s ability to track case notes and prevent them from being lost. The new system uses special swipe pads and RFID tags placed in the back of patient case notes, allowing the notes to be tracked and located more easily across the whole hospital site.

Finalists

Panasonic - Toughbook Mobile Clinical Assistant

Known in the NHS for its Toughbook medical laptops used by ambulance crews, Panasonic has now developed the Toughbook CF-H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) for clinicians to aid the NHS modernisation process. Panasonic’s design team worked with a panel of 100 acute and community nurses, who made numerous suggestions for improving the MCA’s durability, ease of use, product weight, and battery life.

BigHand – BigHand for BlackBerry smartphones

BigHand for BlackBerry smartphones is a digital dictation application that enables clinicians to record dictation onto their BlackBerry smartphone and then to have the recording instantly and securely submitted to internal medical secretaries or an external provider for transcription. The new third edition of the product extends the power and flexibility of an enterprise digital dictation workflow product onto the mobile platform.