Innovation in Healthcare finalists' showcase

This category celebrates an individual, organisation or company that has shown excellence in health care through the development of technology, devices or therapeutics

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bubbalicious – Advice for young parents, Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, UK
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Bubbalicious offers health advice to pregnant teenagers and new teenage mums/dads. This advice will increase the life chance of those babies who are 4 times more likely to experience cot death than those born to mothers over 20 years.

Centralised Ophthalmic Electronic Referral Unit (COeRU), NHS Fife, UK

COERU has redesigned ophthalmic referrals in Fife in the most exciting way possible—greatly reducing waiting times for patients and the need for hospital appointments by sending electronic referrals with digital images of the ophthalmic problem—for example, cataracts or glaucoma.

Professor Subhashchandra Daga, MIMER Medical College, India

MIMER has developed an intervention which prevents a major proportion of neonatal deaths in developing countries; a styrofoam box with four breathing holes is used as a home incubator and a transporting device to keep babies warm.