Oxford
NHS team wins national Information Management Award for development of
Oxford
Clinical Intranet 
Submitted by: Dr Jonathan Kay 19 October
1998 Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals
The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Medical Informatics Group led by Dave
Nurse and Jonathan Kay won the top award for best Information Management
project in 1998 at the Information Management Awards held at the
National Motorcycle Museum on Wednesday 14th October.
The Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group Award was given for the
team's work on the development of the Oxford Clinical Intranet, which
uses the technology of the World Wide Web to improve doctors', nurses'
and midwives' access to clinical information. The project includes
giving
doctors immediate access to results of patients' blood tests, and
guidelines on the types of tests available, so helping them in the
diagnosis and treatment of patients in the hospitals.
Computers providing these services are available across the hospitals
and surfing the intranet is now a regular part of the doctor's work. The
approach cuts down paperwork and phone calls for busy hospital staff. In
addition to providing access to more hospital computers, the team now
intends to improve access to evidence-based medicine knowledge bases.
They are also looking at handheld computers to bring clinical
information even closer to the patient, which could revolutionise the
practice of medicine.
The importance of intranet technology is emphasised in the new NHS
Information Strategy published a few weeks ago.
The work involved many collaborators and departments within the
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals and the University of Oxford including: David
Sackett, Sharon Straus, Brian MacDonald and Douglas Badenoch of the NHS
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine; John McVittie, Kevin Paddon, James
Penn-Dunnett, Ian Bowler, Kieron White and Ken Nicholls of the
Laboratory Medicine Clinical Centre, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital; Paddy
Phillips, Chris Bunch, Ian Mackenzie, Nick Atkins, Sonja Decker, Herb
Parker of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital; The users of the systems,
especially those who evaluated the components during their development;
Thomas Lamandais and Anne Ecobichon of the University of Lannion,
Brittany.
This is the fifth award to the team in the Medical Informatics Unit.
Reports of previous work and current projects can be found here
The technological and management issues relevant to this approach will
be discussed at the
Oxford Clinical Intranet and Internet Conference on 20 November
1998.
The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest
teaching hospitals in the UK and provides both the services of a general
hospital and many regional, national and international specialties.
For further information about this project contact:
Dr Jonathan Kay or
David Nurse |
