Health Innovation

Clinical service delivery continues to transform through health and medical research, digital technologies, and data analytics. New technologies are being incorporated into the suite of healthcare options available to patients, enabling virtual care and other digitally enabled models.

This award recognises innovative models of care, technology-led innovation and devices within healthcare settings, digital-enablement innovations and investments in infrastructure, systems, security and intelligence.

Projects in this category demonstrate excellence in health innovation by:

• delivering new models of healthcare, including to incorporate new secure, seamless and accessible technologies or devices which enable virtual care and other digitally enabled models
• enabling and enhancing the use of precision medicine in mainstream clinical care
• using data analytics as a predictive tool to target and shape service delivery
• promoting innovation and co-design to further streamline and integrate a patient's journey
• delivering infrastructure and service planning that responds to the changing demand in digitally-enabled care settings
• enabling patient access to personalised information that drives more self-management and lifts their health literacy to make informed care choices
• introducing self-management of patient health and wellbeing, and support through clinical remote monitoring if required
• using digitally enabled predictive tools to identify patients at high risk of deterioration, or for early warning of developing conditions
• are purpose-built IT, financial or workforce systems or platforms that support staff to do their job or deliver healthcare to patients.