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Paul Galloway

>Oxford NHS team wins national Information Management Award for development
of
>Oxford Clinical Intranet
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>http://biomac26.jr2.ox.ac.uk/IMaward.htm
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>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, see:
>http://www.imt4nhs.exec.nhs.uk/strategy/index.htm
>
>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 at:
>http://oxmedinfo.jr2.ox.ac.uk
>
>The technological and management issues relevant to this approach will
>be discussed at the Oxford Clinical Intranet and Internet Conference on
>20 November 1998: http://oxmedinfo.jr2.ox.ac.uk/conference98
>
>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 see: http://163.1.46.12/
>
>For further information about the Information Management Awards see:
>http://elanconf.co.uk/im98.html
>
>For further information about this project contact:
>
>Dr Jonathan Kay, phone: 01865 220470, fax: 01865 220348
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>David Nurse, phone: 01865 222914, fax: 01865 220348 HYPERLINK
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>Dr Jonathan Kay 19 October 1998 Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals
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