HTN Now Awards 2021
The HTN Now Awards 2021 aim to share and celebrate innovations, teams and health tech suppliers that have made a difference through the year.
The awards provide a platform to share these innovations and solutions to help shape future services and systems across health and care.
On this webpage you can read-up on the entries and find out a bit more about their work.
Join us from 11am 22nd January for a digital awards day!
Finalists...
Excellence in Remote Monitoring
- ADI
- Spirit Digital
- Fysicon UK Limited
- Oxehealth
Best Solution to Support Healthcare Teams
- Hospital Services Limited
- Alcidion
- Fysicon UK Limited
- Oxehealth
SME Innovation
- HEXTRANSFORMA HEALTHCARE LIMITED
- Oxford Heartbeat
- Malinko
- Lavanya Plus Limited
- Florence
- emteq labs
- Streets Heaver Healthcare Computing
- HN and L2S2
- Hospital Services Limited
Best Solution to Support Patients
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- UCL and Western Eye Hospital, London
- Brain in Hand
Delivery of Virtual Consultation Software
- PushDoctor
- Healthcare Communications
- Tekihealth Solutions Ltd
Excellence in Digital Pathways
- Definition Health Limited
- Vantage Health
- Solutions 4 Health
- Fysicon UK Limited
- Feedback plc
- Spirit Digital
- Healthcare Communications
Rapid Response to COVID-19
- S12 Solutions
- Royal Papworth Hospital / Idox Software Ltd
- NHS Arden & GEM CSU
- Tekihealth Solutions Ltd
- HN (Health Navigator Ltd)
- Vantage Health
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Living With Ltd
- GHX
- Royal Papworth NHS Foundation Trust/DXC Technology
- Feedback plc
An overview of the entries...
Rapid Response to COVID-19
S12 Solutions
Twitter: @S12Solutions
Supporting the Crisis Care Pathway through Digital Innovation.
To support its Health and Social Care partners’ COVID-19 response, S12 Solutions has developed electronic statutory MHA forms, to improve patient care and reduce the administrative burden for mental health professionals.
Royal Papworth Hospital / Idox Software Ltd
Twitter: @RoyalPapworth @idoxgroup
Safety and efficiency in tracking PPE at Royal Papworth.
By using scanning technology, barcodes and passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, we can rapidly track and locate vital equipment; including ventilators and reusable stocks of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) around the hospital, ensuring PPE is in the right place, at the right time, every time, for our people.
NHS Arden & GEM CSU
Twitter: @ardengem
Building a system for providers to record COVID-19 patient notifications.
As part of the early response to the pandemic, organisations needed to rapidly understand the number and spread of COVID-19 related deaths to make informed plans and decisions. Arden & GEM worked closely with key stakeholders to develop and deploy a central system to record COVID-19 patient notifications (the CPNS) in just five days.
Tekihealth Solutions Ltd
Twitter: @tekihealth
A remote diagnostic consultation solution for care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tekihealth Solutions’ “Tekihub” placed in several care homes across the UK enables clinicians to carry out remote physical examinations of the heart, lung, skin, ears, nose and throat of residents resulting in reduced unplanned hospital admissions, GP home visits and improved access to care in spite of COVID-19
HN (Health Navigator Ltd)
Twitter: @healthnavigato2
Launching a Remote High-Risk Patient service in East Kent and South West Staffordshire to support 1,132 shielded patients.
In April 2020, the DoH issued guidelines to isolate vulnerable patients to shield them from COVID-19. East-Kent and South-West Staffordshire CCGs and HN rapidly developed a remote shielding service supporting 1,132 patients in the period from May to September 2020. An example of first class NHS-SME collaboration.
Vantage Health
Rego Care Navigator uses AI to automatically validate referrals against pathways helping clinicians to direct patients to the right provider.
In response to the significant restrictions placed on elective care due to the onset of the pandemic, Vantage Health partnered with several CCGs and Trusts to provide its AI powered Rego platform for Advice & Guidance, ensuring patients continued to receive appropriate care during this period.
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Twitter: @WhitHealth
Musculoskeletal services virtual appointments.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused the team to completely change the way they work. The team quickly launched a digital alternative to face-to-face appointments that was suitable for their patients and also allowed them to feel confident with their clinical decision. Feedback from both patients and clinicians was very positive.
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Twitter: @WhitHealth
Nutrition and Dietetics Weight Management Group Consultations.
COVID-19 presented our Nutrition and Dietetics team with a problem. They could no longer host their face-to-face weight management group, a key part of patients’ journey. The team looked for a digital solution and quickly embraced the virtual sessions, commenting that they have restored joy to their practice.
Living With Ltd
Twitter: @livingwithapp
The Living With Covid Recovery Programme for patients experiencing the debilitating symptoms of ‘Long-Covid’.
The Living With Covid Recovery Programme provides remote supported NHS rehabilitation for patients with long-term symptoms following the acute phase of COVID-19 infection. Referred patients use guided treatment programmes via a smartphone/tablet app. Clinicians can tailor individual patient care and support their recovery and closely monitor many long-covid patients remotely.
GHX
Twitter: @ghxeurope
GHX: Supporting the healthcare community through the COVID-19 pandemic.
As COVID-19 stretched the healthcare community to breaking point, GHX quickly mobilised to build a resource centre providing a reliable source of timely information. By combining our unique insight, data and knowledge with best practices and lessons learned from our community, we’re helping providers and suppliers navigate complex challenges and emerge more resilient.
Royal Papworth NHS Foundation Trust and DXC Technology
Twitter: @RoyalPapworth @DXC_UKI
Royal Papworth’s EPR the heart of it’s Digital Strategy.
Royal Papworth Hospital is at the forefront of digital healthcare and is using technology to improve the lives of its staff and patients in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. At the heart of it’s digital transformation strategy is a critical application during the pandemic is its EPR system.
Feedback plc
Twitter: @Bleepame
Maintaining medical communications during a crisis.
Bleepa is the essential tool to enable remote and secure communications between clinicians and teams – designed by clinicians for clinicians, it is an easy-to-use, CE Marked digital medical imaging communications tool of choice that enables clinicians to view and discuss patient cases at the touch of a button.
SME Innovation
HEXTRANSFORMA HEALTHCARE LIMITED
Twitter: HealthcareHex
HexOrthopaed – Data-driven medical device.
We have trained a machine learning model to use the data from wearable devices to predict the three angles in hips, knees, and ankles more accurately than any research published currently. We are providing a solution to improve patient care for sufferers of musculoskeletal conditions through predictive technologies.
Oxford Heartbeat
Twitter: @OxfordHeartbeat
PreSize® Neurovascular: Setting a new standard for safety and precision in high-risk brain surgeries.
Oxford Heartbeat is an award-winning digital health startup that has developed an innovative medical software, PreSize® Neurovascular. PreSize® greatly enhances surgical preparation for high-risk minimally invasive brain stenting interventions, empowering clinicians to perform their work more accurately, efficiently and confidently. This substantially reduces surgical complications and improves patient outcomes.
Malinko
Twitter: @malinkoapp
Bringing community services into the 21st century.
Complementing EPR, Malinko enables community services teams to operate with the same transparency and safety as an ambulance trust or inpatient area, safe in the knowledge that they have a handle on and visibility of their distributed workforce (capacity) and patient needs (demand) for better clinical care in the community.
Lavanya Plus Limited
Twitter: @wemalife
Supporting the informal carer in the workplace.
COVID-19 has exacerbated mental, emotional and physical health challenges for people of all ages. Lavanya’s innovative digital care and remote monitoring platform WeMa is an end-to-end managed service aimed at relieving the challenges of sourcing trusted and vetted social and community care services felt by working and non-working informal carers.
Florence
Twitter: @weareflorence
An innovative and Covid-safe tech solution for care home staff procurement – Florence.
Florence has disrupted the broken model for social care staff procurement, providing an innovative online marketplace for care homes to book nurses and carers that cuts out agency middlemen. We’ve grown over 300% over the last year, saving care homes over £3m and helping nurses earn over £20m since 2017.
emteq labs
Twitter: @emteqlabs
Biometric Feedback for Virtual Therapies.
The integrated platform translates the emotional state of the user into data, thereby unifying Virtual Reality, biometrics and machine learning.
The tool measures and translates biometric responses from immersive experiences for the benefit of emotions research in marketing and academia and to power mental health interventions through objective measurements.
Streets Heaver Healthcare Computing
Twitter: @StreetsHeaver
Compucare – innovative hospital management software to facilitate the changing needs of the healthcare industry.
Streets Heaver provide a leading Hospital Information System, Compucare, which is continuously developed in-house by a specialised team dedicated to enhancing and innovating the comprehensive software. We pride ourselves on first-rate customer service and strong client relationships to build the perfect solution, designed for the exact needs of the user.
HN and L2S2
Twitter: @healthnavigato2
AI-guided Clinical Coaching to support patients with poorly controlled chronic disease stay out of hospital.
Applying AI to live data can identify those patients with the highest risk of an unplanned hospital admission. Two health-tech SMEs, HN (Health Navigator Ltd) and L2S2, have collaborated to develop a clinically evidenced new model of care which finds patients and supports them to stay out of hospital.
Hospital Services Limited
Twitter: @hsl_ltd
Integrated Virtual Consultations.
The innovation at Hospital Services Limited has led to us producing integrated secure virtual consultations for patients with a work flow that is identical to that of an in person consultation and the technology that delivers this, is invisible to the clinician and patient. Simplicity at its best.
Excellence in Remote Monitoring
ADI
Twitter: @ADI_Health
TiM on MyPathway – MND remote monitoring.
MyPathway is a digital communications channel connecting patients to clinicians, empowering and engaging patients in their healthcare journey. MyPathway enables MND centres to manage their patients digitally. Clinicians can review health questionnaire response data, test results and patient progress through a portal, facilitating decision making for patient care.
Spirit Digital
Twitter: @SpiritDigitalUK
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic community providers were challenged in the way that they connected to patients. The imperative was to look at new ways to provide safe and responsive care for their patients, by embedding digital technology within their clinical pathways.
Fysicon UK Limited
Twitter: @cmhbris
Innovative implantable cardiac device monitoring improves safety and outcomes for patients at Royal Papworth.
The new database at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust enables cardiac physiologists and administrators to follow patients and their cardiac implantable devices over time. Cardiologists can use the system to review longitudinal patient information regarding their devices, assess performance and allow optimization to improve battery longevity and reduce inappropriate interventions.
Oxehealth
Twitter: @Oxehealth
Oxevision: helping clinicians to deliver safer, higher quality and more efficient care.
Oxehealth’s technology, Oxevision (a contact-free vision-based patient and management platform) has helped healthcare teams to reduce incidents of violence and aggression on acute and psychiatric intensive care units and given patients less disturbed sleep at night using remote monitoring (medical grade pulse and breathing rate measurements, location and activity monitoring).
Excellence in Digital Pathways
Definition Health Limited
Twitter: @LifeBoxHealth
Definition Health’s end-to-end digital surgical journey.
Definition Health’s solutions comprise multiple web-based apps including LifeBox e-POA, Secure Virtual Clinic and Recovery Forms. Using these apps, we have proven to efficiently refocus limited hospital resources and pre-assessment staff time, identified patients’ individual needs early on in their journey and offer substantial financial savings to NHS & private hospitals.
Vantage Health
Rego Care Navigator uses AI to automatically validate referrals against pathways helping clinicians to direct patients to the right provider.
Vantage Health has partnered with Oxfordshire CCG to provide its AI platform Rego Care Navigator. The platform transforms the referral process by automatically validating referrals against local pathways helping clinicians to direct patients to the right provider, resulting in better utilisation of local care services and reduced pressure on hospitals.
Solutions 4 Health
Twitter: @solutions4h
Tech 4 Starting Well.
Ask Teddi and Camp Island harness technology, AI and gamification to support parents, carers, young children, and professionals to give children (0-10) the best start to life.
Fysicon UK Limited
Twitter: @cmhbris
The new database at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust enables cardiac physiologists and administrators to follow patients and their cardiac implantable devices over time. Cardiologists can use the system to review longitudinal patient information regarding their devices, assess performance and allow optimization to improve battery longevity and reduce inappropriate interventions.
Feedback plc
Twitter: @Bleepame
Revolutionising medical communications at the touch of a button.
Bleepa is the essential tool to enable remote and secure communications between clinicians and teams – designed by clinicians for clinicians, it is an easy-to-use, CE Marked digital medical imaging communications tool of choice that enables clinicians to view and discuss patient cases at the touch of a button.
Spirit Digital
Twitter: @SpiritDigitalUK
The specialist community cardiorespiratory team at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) is one organisation that has successfully been using an innovative digital health platform called CliniTouch Vie (CTV), provided by Spirit Digital, for the remote monitoring of patients. The use of CTV within the existing community Heart Failure and Respiratory Rehabilitation team within LPT was accelerated in line with the above aims.
Healthcare Communications
Twitter: @healthcommuk
Digital first waiting list communications are instantly delivered to patients’ smartphone with access to their letter and triage eForm via a web-based Patient Portal. Delivery and interactions are trackable. The solution removes hours of staff admin time and ensures no patient is left behind with a multi-channel engagement approach.
Delivery of Virtual Consultation Software
PushDoctor
Twitter: @PushDoctor
Healthcare Communications
Twitter: @healthcommuk
eClinic delivers fully inclusive virtual care to enable every patient to attend appointments safely, featuring live translation in 100+ languages.
eClinic, Healthcare Communications’ video consultation platform, is live with 7 trusts, delivering quantifiable value through the reduction of DNA’s and increased slot utilization, with a focus on inclusivity. We provide clinicians with a multitude of healthcare specific features so they can carry out appointments virtually without compromising on care.
Tekihealth Solutions Ltd
Twitter: @tekihealth
A remote diagnostic consultation solution for care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tekihealth Solutions’ “Tekihub” placed in several care homes across the UK enables clinicians to carry out remote physical examinations of the heart, lung, skin, ears, nose and throat of residents resulting in reduced unplanned hospital admissions, GP home visits and improved access to care in spite of COVID-19.
Best Solution to Support Patients
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Twitter: @my_eHospital @CUH_NHS
MyChart patient portal supporting patients to be more involved, informed and engaged in their care.
The MyChart patient portal at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) is directly integrated to the Trust’s Epic electronic patient record system, providing over 85,000 patients with direct electronic access to their hospital health record; involving them more in their care, encouraging them to contribute to their health information and supporting self-management.
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Twitter: @whithealth
Autism Video Workshops.
Prior to Covid, the Islington Social Communication Team (SCT) offered face-to-face training and psychoeducation workshops for parents and carers of children with a diagnosis of autism. When the lockdown began in March 2020, the SCT were therefore concerned about the impact of families not being able to access this support — as a result the team started to develop videos that could be shared with families.
UCL and Western Eye Hospital, London
Twitter: @UCL
An AI algorithm has been developed by scientists at UCL and Western Eye Hospital, London, to support clinicians when evaluating eye diseases in scans.
The scans are combined with the AI algorithm to help diagnosis, and it is hoped may predict some eye diseases three years before symptoms develop.
Brain in Hand
Twitter: @Brain_in_hand
A digital self-management system to support people who need help remembering things, making decisions, planning, or managing anxiety.
The digital approach aims to transform the model of care for autistic people through user-led self-management. Results from a 2019 evaluation report showed 9 out of 10 users reported an increase in wellbeing within 7 months and the technology proved cost efficiencies for service providers, with an average direct cost saving of £2,800 per user.
Best Solution to Support Healthcare Teams
Hospital Services Limited
Twitter: @hsl_ltd
Shared Conferencing, Collaboration & Telehealth Infrastructure.
Conferencing and collaboration as a shared service across all parts of HSCNI, has enabled this community to together share a cost of ownership and a supported service. HSL have been able to scale the technology for many different uses on the same infrastructure. A Telehealth solution at its finest to meet the demands of healthcare professionals.
Alcidion
Twitter: @alcidion
Transforming healthcare together.
Miya Precision is a new technology for UK healthcare teams, quickly gaining traction following a 2020 NHS launch. Known as a ‘smart clinical asset’ for the NHS, it alleviates clinical cognitive burden, delivers intelligent clinical decision support and establishes a system of engagement, orchestration and automation across hospitals and regions.
Fysicon UK Limited
Twitter: @cmhbris
Innovative implantable cardiac device monitoring improves safety and outcomes for patients at Royal Papworth.
The new database at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust enables cardiac physiologists and administrators to follow patients and their cardiac implantable devices over time. Cardiologists can use the system to review longitudinal patient information regarding their devices, assess performance and allow optimization to improve battery longevity and reduce inappropriate interventions.
Oxehealth
Twitter: @Oxehealth
Oxevision: helping clinicians to deliver safer, higher quality and more efficient care.
Oxehealth’s technology, Oxevision (a contact-free vision-based patient and management platform) has helped healthcare teams to reduce incidents of violence and aggression on acute and psychiatric intensive care units and given patients less disturbed sleep at night using remote monitoring (medical grade pulse and breathing rate measurements, location and activity monitoring).
