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HITEA 2000 winners
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1. Awarding consortium
Background information. 2. Sponsors for the HITEA 2000 Awards
This year three healthcare solution providers sponsored the awards,
without whose support the IT Awards could not take place.
BT Health is the division of BT created to lead activities in IT solutions for healthcare. It represents all divisions of BT, including Syntegra, which are dedicated to supporting the needs of the entire healthcare community. McKessonHBOC is one of UK's largest providers of information technology and solutions to the NHS. Its departmental, clinical support and business systems are used at over 300 hospitals and medical establishments around the UK. Shared Medical Systems (SMS), is a leading supplier of information solutions and services, to the UK healthcare industry. SMS solutions fulfil the requirements of the NHS Information Strategy, providing EPR, GP-provider links, and electronic messages via NHSnet. 3. Case-history presentations 4. Photographs of winners 5. List of winners and the judges' comments
1st Royal United
Hospital Bath 2nd Marple Cottage 3rd National Blood
Service
1st Marple Cottage
Surgery A first-class project. The judging panel were particularly delighted to see the priority the practice placed in communicating with their patients through the use of web technology to provide patients with the ability to ask advice from their doctor via email. Marple Cottage successfully personalised this technology for their patients and delivered real improvements in increasing remote accessibility, providing regular information and reducing patient visits. Patients accessing the site reported that if the website had not been available they would have telephoned or made an appointment. Of particular interest was the background research the practice had undertaken with a similar phone-in service called Doctors' Question Time, which reduced patient visits by 25%. 2nd Northamptonshire
Health Authority Northamptonshire achieved second place for strong project management in delivering an information zone backed up by a comprehensive training and awareness programme. It is designed to aid general practitioners and the primary healthcare team in their daily work by providing them with rapid access to clinical protocols and guidelines, prescribing formularies and evidence-based information sources. A web-based product running over NHSnet, the PCNN keeps abreast of local, regional and national initiatives in both intranet and clinical-decision-support systems technologies. Highly commended
PharMed Although linking GPs and pharmacy has long been talked about within the healthcare community, the judges commended PharMed and welcomed their project's vision and scope. PharMed developed a mechanism acceptable to the NHS and relevant professions to enable prescriptions to be passed electronically from a GP system to a community pharmacy system. The panel encouraged the project to extend its sample audience and to re-submit the project in future years. Best use of IT in secondary care 1st Royal United
Hospital Bath NHS Trust A winner for its considerable improvement to the outpatient consultation process in reducing day surgery waiting times. Bath demonstrated well-documented results, progressing from paper to an off-the-shelf solution, to a commercial solution. In adopting a real-time IT scheduling system, the hospital worked to agree a mutually convenient date for an outpatient consultation. In six months Bath achieved a significant reduction in did-not-attend rates and successfully reduced the number of patient and hospital-initiated cancellations. 2nd Gloucestershire
Royal NHS Trust Although a standard practice, the judges commended Gloucestershire for their implementation of care pathways in addressing and effecting a cultural change within the hospital. Best use of IT in tertiary care Highly commended Manchester Institute
of Nephrology The judges commended Manchester in order to highlight the valuable and clinical importance of their project in establishing a database of over 2500 consecutive kidney transplants performed in a single centre by a single team to identify factors that both enhance and reduce post-transplant kidney function and survival. Best use of laboratory or investigative systems 1st National Blood
Service Awarded first place for demonstrating tremendous project management in pulling together disparate systems in budget and time. The National Blood Service's implementation of HITS, a major new computer system, was to replace a paper-based system and 12 different heritage computer systems with a single, common, computer system. The fact that the system can accommodate the needs of 12 apparently similar yet very different laboratories is an indication of its flexibility and of the soundness of its design. Because of its importance to patient safety additional resilience has been built into the new system and it is supported 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Best publicly accessible health-related information system Highly Commended
University of Portsmouth The judges commended Portsmouth for going one step further in delivering a website that not only provides information on telemedicine projects and resources, but also provides an electronic mailing service for 150 subscribers to exchange news items and for practitioners to pose questions to one another. The judges were particularly impressed that, although aimed at practitioners, professionals and researchers, the site has also proved of interest to patients and the public. The judging panel were further delighted at Portsmouths' analysis of the site data to effect internal change. Best example of technological innovation 1st Kettering General Hospital NHS
Trust A winner for the exceptional level of technological innovation, using state-of-the-art messaging standards technology to deliver considerable improvements to the efficiency of patient management across primary and secondary care.
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