An extra category has been added to the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008 offering another opportunity to showcase excellent work by the UK’s healthcare IM&T community.
The new category for Excellence in Healthcare Information Management, sponsored by IMS Health, is aimed at individuals and teams that support the increasingly complex requirements for information in all parts of healthcare.
Most current healthcare policies – from world class commissioning to 18 week waits; from Patient Choice to the battle against MRSA – need to be underpinned by sound information. Yet the expertise that goes into producing that information and making it accessible goes largely unnoticed.
This category will look ‘under the bonnet’ of healthcare information and recognise excellent work in this area. Judges will be looking for outstanding work in healthcare information management that has delivered measurable benefits to patient care and that either have been or could be replicated elsewhere and scaled up.
Entrants will also be judged on their effectiveness in communicating their work and success in engaging colleagues. The finalists will be able to demonstrate fresh thinking and innovation, though this may include, for example, new ways of using existing information or linking previously isolated sets of information.
The new category is added to seven other, already launched:
- Healthcare IM&T Champion of the Year
- Healthcare IM&T Team of the Year
- Best use of IM&T to promote patient safety
- Best use of wireless healthcare
- Best use of IM&T in healthcare security
- Best use of ICT in patient and citizen involvement in healthcare
- Healthcare ICT product innovation
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