Mike Bainbridge is healthcare ICT champion of the year

Dr Mike Bainbridge was announced as “healthcare ICT champion of the year” at the BT e-Health Insider awards this week.

He beat five other contenders to the accolade, which was sponsored by Microsoft and decided by the votes of more than a thousand readers of the e-Health Insider website.

Dr Bainbridge is a qualified GP and has been an enthusiastic champion of clinical computing since the mid 1980s. Since 2003, he has worked for NHS Connecting for Health, where he is clinical architect.

He has worked closely with Microsoft on the Common User Interface (CUI) programme, which is looking for ways to make healthcare IT easier to deploy and safer to use.

He has also worked closely with Intel on its Mobile Clinical Assistant, which was designed with clinicians to bring electronic healthcare records to mobile workers.

After receiving his award in London, Dr Bainbridge said: “This is a personal award, but I am very conscious that many people have helped me over the years.

“I am also very lucky to be working with great teams, like the [Intel] team and the CUI team. We are all working for clinical utility and patient safety, and that is just a great thing to be involved in.”

Mark Treleaven, healthcare marketing manager for Microsoft UK, said: “Mike has consistently stood up for healthcare IT over the past 25 years.

“He has made the CUI programme work and he has driven forward the MCA. I am really pleased he has been recognised for all his hard work.”

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