Awards ceremony

Finished for another year!

The EHI Awards 2011 took place on Thursday 6 October 2011 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in central London. The evening was a great success with plenty of humour from our guest host, comedian Sean Lock and lots of happy winners!

Information regarding EHI Awards 2012 will be available in the New Year, but for now we would like to congratulate the winners of 2011:

Most Promising IT for GP-Led Commissioning

sponsored by Cerner

NHS South of Tyne and Wear with "GPS plus"

Healthcare IT Product Innovation

sponsored by Quicksilva Systems

RealTime Health for "Reducing length of stay in acute hospitals using RealTime"

Best Use of Social Media in Healthcare

sponsored by IMS Maxims

NHS Sefton for their "Interactive health services by digital TV and mobile phone"

Outstanding Work in IT-Enabled Change in Healthcare

sponsored by Agfa Healthcare UK Ltd

Pan Birmingham Cancer Network and Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust with "Keyworker Alerts"

Best use of telehealth and telecare

sponsored by Clinical Solutions

NHS 24 for "TelePulmonary Rehabilitation"

Innovation in healthcare interoperability

sponsored by Intersystems

Plymouth NHS ICT Shared Services for "SALUS/RAPA: using a messaging system to improve inter-organisational cooperation"

Best use of IT to promote patient safety

sponsored by First DataBank Europe

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and Ascribe Consulting for "a clinical handover solution for the UK acute care sector"

Best use of mobile technology in healthcare

sponsored by Channel 3 Consulting

PaperIQ and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust for their "Digital pens and BlackBerry smartphones"

Excellence in major healthcare IT development

sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

InferMed and NHS Direct for "Innovative use of technology delivers improved patient choice and access"
and
NHS Tayside for the "Scottish Care Information Diabetes Collaboration"

Healthcare IT Champion of the Year

sponsored by iSOFT

James Norman, IT director from Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals

Overall Winner

sponsored by BT

RealTime Health for "Reducing length of stay in acute hospitals using RealTime"