We would like to say thank you to all the applicants who entered the Health Tech Digital Awards this year and a big CONGRATULATIONS to the winners!
A special thanks to our judges who commented that it has been really clear to see that COVID-19 has caused a huge surge in developing ‘at home’ solutions for delivering healthcare and also highlighted the urgency around access to integrated data. We have received a record amount of applications this year and the competition is getting tougher and tougher each year. Please see the winners and their overviews below:
The Winners:
- Best COVID-19 Solution for Mental Health: 87%
- Best COVID-19 Telecommunications Solution: Life Lines Initiative – BT Enterprise
- Best COVID-19 Software Solution: COVID-19 Impact Assessment Tool – RwHealth
- Best COVID-19 Remote Monitoring Solution: CliniTouch Vie – Spirit Health Group
- Best COVID-19 Training Solution: Fundamental Surgery platform – Fundamental VR
- Best COVID-19 Software Solution to Support Virtual Clinics: hearX Self Test Kit – hearX Group
- Best Virtual Meeting Software Solution for COVID-19: Attend Anywhere
- Best COVID-19 Solution for Community Care: SpoedTestCorona Application for Rapid COVID Testing – Symphony Solutions
- Best Healthcare Technology Solution of the Year: Exhale-Dx™ – Applied Nanodetectors
- New Health Tech Innovation of the Year: RBH-KHP Partnership Isla SSI Surveillance App – RBH-KHP Partnership part of the King’s Health Partners collaboration
- Best mHealth Application: iOWNA wHealth
- Best Wearable Technology Solution: Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (CAM) Patch – Bardy Diagnostics Inc.
- Best use of Artificial Intelligence: PROphet® – OncoHost
- Best Healthcare Information System: MediViewer™ by IMMJ Systems
- Best use of Virtual Reality: Antser VR – Antser
- Best Use of Technology (Acute Care): Virtual In Hospital Visiting Service – Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
- Best Communication Solution: SRAVI – Speech Recognition App for the Voice Impaired – Liopa
- Digital Transformation Project of the Year: Phio Access, a clinically-led, digital MSK triage support tool – EQL
- Best Woman’s Health Technology Solution: amma pregnancy tracker
- Best Mental Health Technology Solution: MYNDUP – MYNDUP LTD
- Best Elderly Care Technology Solution: CareLineLive
- Best Healthcare Management Solution: Intouch with Health, a VitalHub company
- Best Innovation project of the year: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Surveillance – Harefield Hospital Thoracics Team- Dr S. Alwis; M. Rochan; C. Brown; D.Birdsall; Mr V. Anikin; Mr N. Asadi / Isla Health LTD, Dr N. Mayer
- Best Remote Monitoring Solution: Lilli’s Smart Monitoring Technology – Lilli
Overviews:
- Best COVID-19 Solution for Mental Health: 87%
87% is a digital workplace wellbeing platform that wants to help everyone find mental balance and focus through practical everyday applications. Our sophisticated, clinically-validated measurements empower people to take charge of their mental fitness. The use of data underpins everything we do, with these measurements providing the insights needed for users to build mental fitness as a part of everyday life. Personalised coaching, customised tools and daily reflections promoting healthy habits, while aggregated data gives businesses the means to identify emotional and behavioural trends amongst staff, helping organisations make informed decisions about targeted wellbeing strategies.
- Best COVID-19 Telecommunications Solution: Life Lines Initiative – BT Enterprise
Life Lines is a not for profit, UK-wide project involving the collaboration of King’s Health Partners, BT and partners to provide 4G-enabled tablets to intensive care units (ICU), enabling virtual visiting via video calls for families with their loved ones in ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Life Lines initiative, led by BT and partners allows patients to stay in touch with their loved ones in a safe and COVID secure manner. Families of patients can connect with the clinical teams for information and decision making but in an easy to manage, reliable, data security safe and clinically-approved way.
- Best COVID-19 Software Solution: COVID-19 Impact Assessment Tool – RwHealth
The NHS COVID-19 Impact Assessment Tool (IAT) helps to provide impact assessment from a provider perspective, allowing trusts to view and analyse national Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data, alongside a number of live data sources on COVID-19 cases by the minute, as they emerge across the globe. The IAT instantly models the impact of increased volume and complexity at a local and system level, providing valuable visibility of Emergency Department, Inpatient Conversion, ICU and overall bed impact.
- Best COVID-19 Remote Monitoring Solution: CliniTouch Vie – Spirit Health Group
Spirit Digital’s CliniTouch Vie is a digital health platform designed to connect patients and clinical teams using remote monitoring technology. Helping to make healthcare safer, smarter, and more efficient, the platform enables the digitisation of multiple pathways, including COPD, chronic heart failure, frailty, and more recently, COVID-19 virtual wards. Our remote monitoring solution is currently supporting teams across the NHS to provide brilliant virtual care. Published, proven evidence for CliniTouch Vie shows a 67.5% reduction in unscheduled hospital admissions, increased system capacity, demonstrable cost savings of up to £2,304 per patient and a return on investment of 484%.
- Best COVID-19 Training Solution: Fundamental Surgery platform – Fundamental VR
FundamentalVR is a groundbreaking company working at the intersection of immersive technology, haptics (the sense of touch), and machine learning. Serving medical enterprises, including medical educators, device manufacturers, and life science companies, creates highly realistic immersive environments that accelerate learning and transfer the precision skills required in medical procedures.
- Best COVID-19 Software Solution to Support Virtual Clinics: hearX Self Test Kit – hearX Group
The hearX Self Test Kit is a tablet-based hearing test solution for diagnostic assessments outside a sound booth. The solution allows for self-testing counter-side, curb-side or at home with telehealth support. It even allows healthcare professionals to make treatment recommendations, including the fitting of hearing aids that can be provided in low- or no-touch alternative models of care. This comprehensive solution enables pure tone audiometry, speech-in noise-testing, ear risk assessment and digital AI otoscopy for successful hearing aid fitting, without having to see patients in person.
- Best Virtual Meeting Software Solution for COVID-19: Attend Anywhere
Attend Anywhere is used by hospitals, health systems and other customers to offer video consultations to patients and service users, as part of day-to-day operations. Implemented by around 90% of the NHS, Attend Anywhere really came into its own during the pandemic, when it became a critical tool to ensure health services were accessible despite restrictions. While Attend Anywhere was pivotal amid COVID-19, it will continue to play a vital role in facilitating flexible healthcare well into the future, giving patients and clinicians more choice and a sustainable way to provide and receive better healthcare – no matter where they are.
- Best COVID-19 Solution for Community Care: SpoedTestCorona Application for Rapid COVID Testing – Symphony Solutions
Spoedtestcorona application for rapid COVID testing was delivered by Symphony Solutions in close cooperation with Spoedtestcorona, a chain of testing centers that offer 15-minute Covid-19 screening tests for individuals and companies in the Netherlands and Belgium. Created to address the urgent need for reliable, affordable, and fast testing, the app leverages cloud technologies to provide a scalable and secure solution. Integrated with the testing center software, it allows users to register for the test, get it done and receive results with minimal human contact. Spoedtestcorona is working with the Netherlands governmental portals to provide tests to schools and other institutions.
- Best Healthcare Technology Solution of the Year: Exhale-Dx™ – Applied Nanodetectors
Applied Nanodetectors Ltd has developed the world’s first handheld, point-of-care breath test system that can simultaneously measure VOCs and lung function properties from exhaled breath. Exhale-Dx™ can detect the possibility of an asthma attack up to 3 days in advance using an AI predictive model, providing a potential window of opportunity for treatment to prevent any further deterioration. Our cloud-based platform ensures the secure and reliable transfer of data from Exhale-Dx™ to healthcare management systems or to the patients’ healthcare records. Our groundbreaking technology will deliver a significant impact to healthcare services, clinicians and patients.
- New Health Tech Innovation of the Year: RBH-KHP Partnership Isla SSI Surveillance App – RBH-KHP Partnership part of the King’s Health Partners collaboration
As part of the King’s Health Partners collaboration, the RBH-KHP Partnership digital transformation project for surgical site infection surveillance focuses on improving patient experience and outcomes after surgery. With our industry partner Isla, and across our multiple hospitals, the Isla SSI app demonstrates frontline collaboration in digital innovation, research, machine learning driven by patient needs and preferences in surgical wound assessment.
- Best mHealth Application: iOWNA wHealth
iOWNA is a solution for clinicians to deliver personalised patient-centric interactions. It transforms clinician and patient interactions by facilitating a two-way exchange of information that engages patients in their treatment pathway: trusted condition-specific information is sent from the clinician directly to the patient’s mobile; and structured digital forms returned from the patient with valuable contextual, condition or side-effect information. Our mission is to enable people to live longer healthier lives through improving clinical outcomes.
- Best Wearable Technology Solution: Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (CAM) Patch – Bardy Diagnostics Inc.
The Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (CAM) is the first P-wave-centric ECG patch monitor, designed for the optimal detection and clear recording of the P-wave. The CAM patch addresses a long-standing complaint by cardiac physicians regarding their frequent inability to clearly distinguish the P-wave on ECG strips of existing modalities. The P-wave, a small amplitude signal originating in the atrium that is essential to accurate arrhythmia diagnosis and the determination of appropriate medical or procedural intervention, is often unreliably detected or recorded by current monitoring technologies, resulting in inaccurate, vague, or missed diagnoses.
- Best use of Artificial Intelligence: PROphet® – OncoHost
OncoHost is a clinical stage precision oncology start-up that combines proteomic analysis with AI to predict response to immunotherapy and analyze treatment resistance mechanisms, providing clinicians with potential combination strategies to optimize treatment. OncoHost has developed a first-of-its-kind host response profiling platform, PROphet®. The platform analyzes proteomic changes in patient blood samples to monitor the dynamics of biological processes induced by the patient (i.e., the host) in response to a given cancer therapy, enabling biomarker-guided treatment planning for physicians, target discovery for drug development and, ultimately, improved outcomes for patients.
- Best Healthcare Information System: MediViewer™ by IMMJ Systems
IMMJ Systems is built on the collective experience of the management team who have worked for many years in healthcare, technology, and business. Having been involved at the ‘sharp end’ of delivering healthcare solutions involving the digitising of patient records, we have acquired extensive knowledge and understanding of the operational challenges facing NHS organisations who are beginning their paperless journey. No other clinical EDM software provider has secured as many contracts wins as IMMJ Systems in the last 3 years in secondary care. This is demonstrated due to not only our unique product architecture and usability but emphasis on the excellence of our implementation capability.
- Best use of Virtual Reality: Antser VR – Antser
Antser VR has been pioneered by Darent Valley Hospital for its safeguarding training, with the aim of increasing empathy, changing attitudes and modifying behaviour to enable positive change by immersing users into ‘real’ scenarios. Overseen by the Safeguarding Children’s Team, the workforce can witness first-hand a range and number of family scenarios including alcohol and domestic abuse – all of which would have an impact on a child. When the workforce is armed with the knowledge and experience to recognise these situations, the right referrals to social care can be made, at the right time.
- Best Use of Technology (Acute Care): Virtual In Hospital Visiting Service – Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Treating around 1 million patients annually, the Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has always sought to modernise and invest in its health services to build upon its reputation as an organisation which continually strives to ensure that patients’ needs, requirements and wellbeing are always at the forefront of their actions. When a technology investment at the beginning of 2020 took a different course to its original deployment plan due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Trust took a pioneering approach with its newly purchased Zebra TC51-HC Touch Computers and utilised them to enable virtual visiting within its hospitals.
- Best Communication Solution: SRAVI – Speech Recognition App for the Voice Impaired – Liopa
SRAVI is a simple lipreading application that requires just a smartphone. It is being used in Intensive Care units within NHS hospitals to bring a voice to the voiceless. SRAVI helps patients who have lost the ability to speak, to communicate with their loved ones & carers. There are many conditions, including tracheostomy and intubation from conditions such as COVID-19, which mean that people cannot move air across their voicebox, rendering them voiceless. The SRAVI app can be downloaded onto a smartphone to read lips with more than 90% accuracy from a pre-defined list of phrases.
- Digital Transformation Project of the Year: Phio Access, a clinically-led, digital MSK triage support tool – EQL
Rising NHS waiting lists and significant delays to treatment due to lockdown has created a significant accumulation of demand for musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy care. In MSK treatment, earlier intervention is essential for improved health outcomes and technology can offer an ideal solution. Connect Health and EQL have developed Phio Access, a clinically led chat-bot providing an agile and remote triage support tool for musculoskeletal conditions 24/7. Developed with senior clinical input to ensure safety, accuracy of decision making, clinical quality and effectiveness, patients have benefitted from access to immediate and in some cases lifesaving support in NHS services
- Best Woman’s Health Technology Solution: amma pregnancy tracker
amma pregnancy tracker is an international mobile service and one of the world’s largest communities for pregnant women and their families. we provide clear, evidence-based pregnancy information and personalized recommendations from obstetricians and gynecologists.
- Best Mental Health Technology Solution: MYNDUP – MYNDUP LTD
Founded in February 2020, MYNDUP offers services across the mental health spectrum with renowned and certified practitioners from all over the world to offer the best and most inclusive care. Our services are only available digitally to ensure comfort, flexibility, and give the best of mental healthcare at one’s fingertip.
- Best Elderly Care Technology Solution: CareLineLive
CareLineLive’s cloud-based all-in-one homecare management software improves efficiency, capacity and compliance of office staff and carers by digitising workflows and automating processes such as rostering and payroll. Homecare agencies can save time and money, and carers spend less time on paperwork with clients receiving better care. The technology helps to complete the ‘circle of care’ between carers, clients, family, and key stakeholders and also gives carers more ‘time to care’, keeping them informed in real-time of their clients’ needs. CareLineLive enables agencies to be more compliant and empowers carers to do the job they want to do – care.
- Best Healthcare Management Solution: Intouch with Health, a VitalHub company
Intouch with Health is the prime supplier of patient flow management solutions to the NHS acute sector, putting the right patient at the right place in the right time, whether for planned Outpatient Services, Elective Care and Day Cases or for unplanned ‘Walk-in’ Services. The Intouch with Health Platform currently processes over 52 million outpatient appointments annually and supports over 70 NHS Trusts manage all aspects of a patient’s hospital journey, from patient self-check-in to discharge, and beyond for remote care.
- Best Innovation project of the year: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Surveillance – Harefield Hospital Thoracics Team- Dr S. Alwis; M. Rochan; C. Brown; D.Birdsall; Mr V. Anikin; Mr N. Asadi / Isla Health LTD, Dr N. Mayer
Harefield Hospital, a tertiary centre for Thoracic Surgery, has successfully implemented a Surgical Site Infection (SSI) surveillance platform to meet the specific needs of thoracic surgical patients with short hospital stays who have an increased risk of wound infections due to remaining indwelling devices. The implementation of the surveillance tool revolutionised management of SSI Surveillance in Thoracic Surgery, by transforming generic discharge wound advice to a personalised digital approach using a telemedical SSI-Surveillance platform. The SSI Surveillance additionally increased patient satisfaction and its implementation ensured that patients were still followed-up despite restrictions to follow-up during the COVID 19 pandemic.
- Best Remote Monitoring Solution: Lilli’s Smart Monitoring Technology – Lilli
Lilli is a UK SaaS company revolutionising remote home care by combining machine learning with smart technology, changing the paradigm from reactive to preventative care. Lilli enables independent living, giving people choice in how and where they spend their lives regardless of their age, condition or financial situation. Its insights empower social care commissioners, care-providers, housing associations and the NHS to achieve major advances in outcomes and greater efficiency in the use of frontline resources in the face of growing demands on services and over-stretched budgets.
