Finalists for Holyrood Connect Digital Health and Care Awards revealed

The shortlist for Holyrood Connect’s fifth annual Digital Health and Care Awards has been unveiled, with less than a month to go until the event takes place at the InterContinental Edinburgh The George hotel.

The awards, which celebrate digital innovation across health and social care, are spread across seven categories including Data Driven Innovation and Innovative Mental Health Services.

The ceremony, which will take place on 22 February, will focus mainly on teams, aside from the Digital Leader Award, which is being contested by Debbie Crohn of the Scottish Government’s Covid vaccination programme and David McColl from NES Technology. They are up against a joint entry from Dr Brian Digby and Dr Alastair Bishop, both of whom are involved in the Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration System.

The categories were judged by a panel made up of NHS Scotland chief executive Caroline Lamb, Scottish Care chief executive Dr Donald Macaskill, TSA chief executive Alyson Scurfield and InterSystems head of sales Charles King.

The full shortlist is as follows:

Data Driven Innovation Award in association with InterSystems

- DYNAMIC AI COPD Project, WoS Innov Hub, NHSGGC, DHI, StormID

- Transforming the heart failure diagnostic pathway - NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Lenus Health

- Pathology Digitisation and AI programme, NHSGGC and iCAIRD

Innovative Mental Health Services Award

- UPTAE? - Support for Ordinary Living

- SMS:CONNECT - Children's Health Scotland

- Breathing Space web chat service at NHS 24

Technology Enabled Independent Living Award

- Bield Housing & Care: Inspire Proactive Telecare

- SOL Connect

- NHS Ayrshire and Arran Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Digital Services Team

Industry Collaboration Award

- DYNAMIC AI - West of Scotland Innovation Hub / NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde / DHI and StormID

- Transforming the heart failure diagnostic pathway - NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Lenus Health

- COVID-19 Remote Health Pathway - NHS Scotland TEC Team and Inhealthcare

Digital Health and Care Team Award

- West of Scotland Innovation Hub, NHSGGC and NHS Scotland

- NHS Scotland/NHS Inform COVID-19 vaccine information

- Digital Health and Care Directorate, Scottish Government

COVID-19 Response Award 

- Digital Health & Care, Technology Enabled Care (TEC) programme: Telemonitoring of acute COVID-19

- Digital Health & Care, Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Programme team: Digital Inclusion in Care Homes

- National Vaccination Programme, National Services Scotland

Digital Leader Award

- Joint Digital Leaders 2022 - Dr Brian Digby, Consultant Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia/Chair NHSGGC HEPMA Programme Board; Dr Alastair Bishop, eHealth Senior Programme Manager, Safer Medicines Programme - Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration System (HEPMA)

- David McColl, Chief Technology Officer, NES Technology

- Debbie Crohn, Covid Vaccination Programme, Scottish Government