This award has been named after Professor Rory O'Moore, Chairman of the Section of Healthcare Informatics in the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and past chairman of HISI and the European Federation for Medical Informatics. The award was inaugurated by An Taoiseach Mr. Bertie Ahern T.D in 2003 who presented the medal to Prof. O'Moore for his contribution to the development of Healthcare Informatics in Ireland.

Since then, the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland has awarded the O'Moore Medal as appropriate to individuals or organisations that have made a major contribution to Healthcare Informatics.

2009 O'Moore Medal: H Stephen Lieber

This year the O'Moore Medal was presented to H. Stephen Lieber by the Minister for Health and Children, Ms. Mary Harney, TD., in recognition of his work in establishing HIMSS as the world’s largest healthcare association focused on information technology and as a global leader on health ICT. It also acknowledges his leadership role in initiating the US Government’s stimulus package for healthcare ICT.

With more than 27 years of experience and leadership in healthcare and healthcare association management, Lieber has been nationally recognised as one of the Top 100 most influential people in U.S. healthcare in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

He is one of the founders of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology and the Health Information Technology Standards Panel, which are both U.S. federally-funded initiatives supporting the U.S. interoperability effort. As a nationally known commentator on health policy in general and specifically healthcare IT trends and issues, Lieber is a regular speaker and contributor to corporate strategic planning efforts, government-sponsored policy efforts, private sector initiatives and other non-profit organizations.
  

2008 O'Moore Medal: Dr. Glyn Hayes

This year the O'Moore Medal was presented to Dr. Glyn Hayes by the former An Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, TD.

Dr. Hayes was a GP in Worcester for 25 years. He has been involved with Health Informatics since the late 70s when he designed one of first consulting room GP computer systems.

Chair of the U.K. Health Informatics Forum Strategic Panel. He is a founder member of the Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the BCS, was its chair from 1985 to 1990 and recently retired as its President. He is also President of the UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals.

Medical director for one of the largest suppliers of IT to the NHS in 1992 and retired from this post in 2001. He has represented the UK on the International Medical Informatics Association and was the chair of the Primary Care working Group of IMIA. He has lectured widely around the world and been a keynote speaker at many international conferences.

A lifetime achievement award winner, awarded by the Health Informatics Forum of the British Computer Society, the third person ever receive the accolade.

2007 O'Moore Medal: Professor Jane Grimson

This year the O'Moore Medal was presented to Professor Jane Grimson by An Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, TD. In his speech to commerate this occasion he drew special attention to the significant role that healthcare informatics plays in improving healthcare effecieny, cost-effectiveness and safety. He said that he fellt that it could help to create a better working environment for healthcare professional and most importantly of all, lead to improved patient care.

An Taoiseach said that as well as presentnig the O'Moore Medal on behalf of HISI he would also like to take the oppertunity to express his own appreciationand that of the governments, to Professor Grimson for her enormous contribution to the development of science and technology in Ireland. (To view the text of his speech, click here).

The O'Moore Medal was presented to Prof. Jane Grimson who has been president of the society for the past eight years in recognition of all her outstanding contributions to the development of healthcare informatics within Ireland and throughout the world.

Her research has covered a broad and diverse range of topics. There has been a strong underlying focus on knowledge and data maangement in particular on the development of advanced information systems to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and safety of healthcare.

In 1990 together with Prof. Rory O'Moore, she founded the Centre for Health informatics (CHI) at Trinity College. The centre brings together researchers from Computer Science, Engineering, Management Science and clinicians. As Director of the Centre, Professor Grimson, together with her husband Bill, has been involved in several major projects - in particular OpenLabs, KAVAS, Synapses and Synex funded by the EU and MediLink funded by the Irsih Government.

Openlabs developed novel solutions to improving efficiency and effectiveness in clinical laboratories, while Synapses developed a simple and secure method of sharing electronic health records. The results of Synapses and it's follow-on project Synes, were a major influence on the evolving CEN standards for health records. The concept of the Synapses federated Healthcare Records Server was extended to support the integration of records and clinical protocols/guidelines in a major national initiative, MediLink. This developed the concept of the active electronic health record which monitors the record, automatically generating alarms and alerts to manage the patients workflow.

In addition to conducting research the Centre also runs a highly sucessful interdisciplinary postgraduate diploma and masters programmes in health informatics.