Healthcare ICT Champion 2008 - get voting now!
Microsoft is once again sponsoring the Healthcare ICT Champion category in the BT e-Health Insider Awards and voting starts today.
Nominated candidates for the 2008 title are:
- Sue Rushbrook, head of systems and network services, York Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust
- Manpreet Pujara, National Clinical Lead for General Practice, NHS Connecting for Health
- Matthew Miliffe, Information Solution Architect, Cerner
- Mary Hawking, GP, Bedfordshire
- Darren Holmes, director of ICT, St Barnabas’ Hospice, Lincoln
- Rob Chesters, i-health manager, Medilink West Midlands
- Phil Browne, director of Informatica Systems and author of Front Desk.
You can read all about the nominees on the e-health website and to cast your vote, simply click on the name of the person you think deserves the award the most and enter your e-mail address. A confirmatory e-mail will be sent to your inbox and clicking the link contained in the e-mail message will activate your vote. Voting closes on 16th November 2008 so don't delay, cast your vote today.
Microsoft UK's Director of Health, John Coulthard said of the award category, "Healthcare ICT is all about people not technology and the Champion of the Year award is a great way of acknowledging those that are leaders in this field. As the NHS seeks to transform health services to meet the needs of citizens and patients, leaders are in even greater demand. I hope that people will be inspired by the nominees and hope in some way to emulate the winners."
Last year's winner was Dr Mike Bainbridge from Connecting for Health who scooped the award for his championing of ICT since the 1980s and work on the CUI programme. Who will it be this year?