After a busy few months here at HTN in the lead-up to the HTN Now Awards 2023/24, and hours of judging from NHS health tech professionals, we can finally announce our winners and runners-up.
The HTN Now awards provide a chance to showcase and celebrate hard work and innovative thinking across the health and care industry. All of our winners and runners-up deserve a huge congratulations for their efforts in using digital to make improvements for both patients and staff.
Without further ado, we present to you the worthy winners and runners-up of the HTN Now Awards 2023/24.
Innovation in Health and Care
Harrogate & District Foundation Trust won this category, with their HAPPI Project: Harrogate Post Procedure Patient Innovation.
Harrogate & District Foundation Trust’s initiative aims to transform communication with patients after they have undergone a day surgery surgical procedure, with a personalised video message recorded by the surgeon after the operation and delivered via a secure server to the patient the same day.
Congratulations also to our runner-up in this category, Sanius Health, for their project harnessing technology to predict pain crises for people living with sickle cell.
To view all of our entries for this category, please click here.
Health Tech Team of the Year
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust are our winners in this category, for their implementation of MEDITECH Expanse, paving the way for frontline digitisation as first-of-type site in the NHS.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has recently completed a “revolutionary” digital organisational change programme which saw the implementation a brand new EPR system, MEDITECH Expanse. The implementation is said to be the first of type for the UK and went live on 8 July 2023.
To view all of our entries in this category, please click here.
Best Virtual Care Project
iPLATO/HUMA are the winners in this category, for their remote patient monitoring of pregnant women with gestational diabetes.
Royal Surrey County Hospital began using their GDm-Health solution, a digital therapeutic smartphone application that helps clinicians remotely monitor blood glucose levels in near real time and helps pregnant women with diabetes better manage their condition.
Congratulations also to our runner-up in this category, Birdie, for their project building an intelligent platform for home care.
To view all of our entries in this category, please click here.
Frontline Digitisation Project of the Year
Dedalus and North West Ambulance Service are our winners for this category, for their use of the OneResponse mobile app for emergency care.
In 2023 Dedalus launched the OneResponse Mobile app, used for the capture of incident information on over 4,000 iPads at North West Ambulance. As part of the move they introduced compliance with the NHS ambulance data set and brought GP Connect to all users, providing Patient Medical history at scene.
Congratulations also to our runner-up in this category, Priory, for their project in transforming their social care portfolio with the implementation of the Nourish Care System.
To view all of our entries in this category, please click here.
Excellence in Digital Pathways
iOWNA wHealth are our winners in this category, for their digital transformation of IBD care pathways.
Inefficient care pathways in IBD clinics at Milton Keynes University Hospital were transformed through the adoption of the iOWNA digital platform, with a significant impact on nursing time spent on patient education and their confidence to place patients on self-management pathways.
Congratulations also to our runner-up in this category, Healthcare Communications, part of Webex by Cisco, for their project on digital pre-procedure support to reduce cancelled colonoscopies.
To view all of our entries in this category, please click here.
Health Tech Case Study of the Year
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and Consultant Connect are our winners in this category, for their project supporting frail older adults in crisis to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
The trust is working to transform frailty and elderly care delivery using Consultant Connect technology, which sees clinicians connect to specialists in under a minute, meaning many patients avoid visiting hospital unnecessarily.
Congratulations also to our runner-up in this category, Catalyst BI, for their project on delivering exceptional patient care by easing winter pressures and improving patient flow through pioneering data transformation.
To view all of our entries in this category, please click here.
Integrated Health and Care System Transformation
Sweatco Ltd are the winners of this category, for their work on preventing Type 2 diabetes through incentives and gamification as part of the NHS Decathlon programme to tackle preventable diabetes.
SweatCo is a NHS diabetes prevention partner working alongside SW London ICS to tackle Type 2 Diabetes by creating a specialised programme ‘Prevention Decathlon’ prescribed to at-risk individuals.
Congratulations also to our runner-up in this category, Lifeness, for their mobile health solution transforming obesity treatment.
To view all of our entries in this category, please click here.
Supporting General Practice Through Technology
St Andrews Health Centre & Accurx are our winners in this category, for the implementation of their total triage solution.
In early 2022, the triage system at St Andrews Health Centre led to low staff morale, delays in patient care and daily queues outside the practice. But since using Accurx for total triage, the centre now resolves 99 percent of patient requests within 48 hours, significantly improving patient access and satisfaction levels.
Congratulations also to our runner-up in this category, Agilio Software, for their TeamNet paperless project on increasing resilience in primary care.
To view all of our entries in this category, please click here.
Solution Supporting Digital NHS Trusts
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust are our winners in this category, for their alternative approach to achieving digital maturity in maternity services.
Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust has developed a bespoke maternity patient record, building on the trust’s existing Sunrise EPR. As a result of the implementation, Dudley’s labour and inpatient maternity units are now entirely digital, supporting the trust’s aim to become a digital first organisation.
Congratulations also to our runner-up in this category, inicio health, for their work on transforming care with the hyperbilirubinemia digital MPage.
To view all of our entries in this category, please click here.
Overall Winner
Our judges selected Harrogate & District Foundation Trust for special commendation as the overall winner of the HTN Now Awards 2023/24, for their hard work, innovative thinking, and commitment to improving patient care through their HAPPI Project: Harrogate Post Procedure Patient Innovation. A huge well done to them!
The team at HTN would like to offer our congratulations once more to all of our winners, runners up, and our finalists – we hope you have enjoyed reading about the breadth of innovative work across the digital health space as much as we have.
