LONDON, April 11 /PRNewswire/ --     New categories in the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008 launched today will
reward excellent work by healthcare information and communications technology
professionals in vital areas such as patient safety, security and wireless
working.

Entries are now open to individuals and teams in seven categories:

    Healthcare IM&T Team of the Year
    Best use of IM&T to promote patient safety
    Best use of wireless healthcare
    Best use of IM&T in healthcare security
    Best use of ICT in patient and citizen involvement in healthcare
    Healthcare ICT product innovation
    Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year



Launching the awards, e-Health Insider's editor, Jon Hoeksma, said: "The
BT e-Health Insider Awards have established themselves as a major focus for
recognising outstanding achievement in healthcare ICT. With an expanded list
of categories this year we hope to shine the spotlight even more effectively
on teams and individuals doing excellent, but often unrecognised, work in
this vital area of healthcare.

"I am especially grateful to BT for agreeing to be the principal sponsor
for the awards once more and to our other sponsors Cisco, NHS Connecting for
Health, Emis, Fujitsu, McKesson, Microsoft and Quicksilva for their support.

"As a thank-you to entrants, e-Health Insider will be donating GBP2 per
entry to ChildLine the free, confidential 24-hour helpline for children and
young people in the UK, and send entrants a stylish cotton carrier to
replace the plastic bags we are all trying to give up."

Sir Jonathan Michael, clinical director and deputy managing director of
BT Health, said: "For the second year running, we are delighted to join with
e-Health Insider in recognising the energy, commitment and achievements of
individuals and teams working to improve the delivery of healthcare through
information technology and management. Today, BT is the biggest supplier of
IT systems and services to the NHS and we are proud to be playing our part by
supplying the technology to support these professionals in delivering better
care for patients."

Details of the awards and online entry forms are at:
http://www.ehealthawards.com

Entries are welcome now. Closing date 4 July 2008.

Notes for Editors

1) About e-Health Insider

e-Health Insider, http://www.e-health-insider.com is the only independent
online news and information service dedicated to UK healthcare information
technology. Over 22,000 IT industry and NHS professionals are registered
users of the e-Health Insider portal and readers of its weekly e-mailed
newsletter.

2) About BT

BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions
serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. BT's principal
activities include networked IT services, local, national and international
telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products
and services. 
(http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/Companyprofile/Groupbusinesses/Principalactivities.htm)

BT has been working with the NHS since it was founded in 1948 and
currently has around 2,000 highly-trained people dedicated to healthcare
projects. Its network and integration expertise, backed by world-class
delivery partnerships, is helping the way health professionals communicate
and deliver patient care.