2004 Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards

HITEA 2004 winners

Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Trust,  IMS Maxims plc, and Wirral Health Informatics Service win the Best use of IT in the Health Service and  Best use of IT in secondary and tertiary care awards

“This is an excellent example of ICT making a real
difference for clinicians and patients.”

Winners of categories | Contacts | Obtaining photographs | Winners' contacts
Projects entered for HITEA | HITEA 2004 categories

22 March 2004. This outstanding award-winning project, Radiotherapy scheduling, demonstrated a high degree of buy-in and ownership from clinicians who also participated heavily in the design. This indefatigable team’s efforts made a significant impact on the service they provide:  the Trust has one of the lowest waiting times in the UK; patients are able to see at a glance the full extent of their treatment plan and have greater flexibility and choice in arranging appointments; and overall the system provides better quality of service to patients, doctors and healthcare staff!

Eight Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards were presented in recognition of excellence in healthcare information management.

"Once again the excellence of the entries in this year’s Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards demonstrates that there is a large amount of talent working to implement successful ICT in the NHS. The quality of entries was high and the range of projects encouraging. Patient care has been shown to be the major beneficiary of the work done by the winners.”
Dr Glyn Hayes, MB ChB, DRCOG, FBCS, President, UK Council for Health Informatics Professions; Chairman, Health Informatics Committee of the British Computer Society; and President, Primary Health Care Group of the BCS.

“Judges are looking for entries that show clear examples of how ICT meets the challenges of delivering effective patient care in the 21^st century. We look forward to seeing more of the same next year.” Mike Fairey, Commissioning Editor, bjhc&im, and Chairman of the 2005 HITEA Judging Panel.

Winners of categories and judges' comments

Best use of IT in primary and community care awards >

Best use of IT in secondary and tertiary care awards >

Best example of technical innovation award >

Contacts for HC2004

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Contact details for information about HITEA, obtaining photographs of winners, and the leaders of the winning projects.

Comments from the sponsors

BT Health

BT has been closely involved in the evolution of modern day NHS IT and has been a key supplier to the NHS since the early 1990s. As a National Application and Local Service Provider, BT is extending the excellent working relationship that it has forged with the NHS whilst continuing to deliver the key national services that are underpinning the modernisation of the NHS.

BT brings many years of clinical and ICT experience to the NHS. This experience is focused on assisting primary care organisations to address the challenge of building managed clinical networks to achieve effective chronic disease management and improved patient outcomes. 

BT’s sponsorship of the Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards reflects our continued commitment to developing innovative ICT solutions tailored to the needs of the NHS. These solutions will enable the NHS to improve the national infrastructure, provide a higher quality of patient care and increase operational efficiency.

Oracle

“Oracle is extremely pleased to support innovation in healthcare. These awards demonstrate how IT can effectively enable the clinical process and improve patient management”, said Jeremy Nettle, European Director for Healthcare, Oracle. 

Oracle Corporation is the world’s largest enterprise software company. Our software helps companies manage their data and improve their businesses’ operations. We are the principal supplier of finance, HR and purchasing systems to the NHS. Oracle’s analysis and reporting  systems encompass both business and clinical activities, enabling NHS management to take a balanced view of the organisation’s performance. The NHS recently announced that patient records and electronic bookings will be consolidated on a single database infrastructure, provided by Oracle, as part of the National Programme for IT. This is an important step in improving the NHS’s access to accurate, timely and relevant patient information.

Awarding consortium

2004 sponsors

The Health Informatics Committee of the British Computer Society