Alana Harper wins Clinical Informatics Leadership Award 2022

NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

A doctor who led the development of a national aeromedical electronic Clinical Record (eCR), at Northern Rescue Helicopter Limited, has won the 2022 Clinical Informatics Leadership Award.

Alana Harper is an emergency medicine specialist at Te Toka Tumai Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland and a pre-hospital & retrieval medicine doctor with Te Ratonga Wakatopa Whakaora ki Te Raki, Northern Rescue Helicopter.

She has worked tirelessly in this role to develop an electronic clinical record which allows clinical teams to capture patient data using a variety of methods, including wireless sharing of patient vital signs from critical care cardiac monitors – a first for Australasia.

This eCR connects both bases of operations within the Northern aeromedical region and later this year, will be implemented across the Central aeromedical region.

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Te Whatu Ora board chair Rob Campbell presented the trophy to Harper at Digital Health Week in Rotorua on December 6, 2022.

In its fourth year, the Clinical Informatics Leadership Award recognises the leadership, mahi and achievements of clinicians working in the field of data and digital health.

More than 1000 votes were cast to select the winner, who receives a free pass and speaking slot at Digital Health Week 2023 and $5000 from Spark Health, to fund further study or attend a conference.

A three-person judging panel; HiNZ board chair Karen Blake; Clinical Informatics Leadership Award 2020 winner Lara Hopley; and 2019 award winner Rebecca George, selected the finalists.

The judges said: “Harper demonstrates initiative, insight and leadership. We admired her persistence, consumer engagement and breadth of networking that enabled her to deliver on this work so successfully”.  

Read Alana Harper’s profile on eHealthNews.nz.

Picture: 2022 CiLN Award winner, Alana Harper with Te Whatu Ora Health NZ Board Chair, Rob Campbell



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