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Dr Hajar Mozaffar has been awarded the prestigious ‘Best of Medical Informatics’ article award from the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) in its 2018 edition of the Yearbook of best articles published in 2017.

IMIA is the world body for health and biomedical informatics bringing together corporate and academic institutions. IMIA provides leadership and expertise to the multidisciplinary, health-focused community and to policy makers, to enable the transformation of healthcare in accord with the world-wide vision of improving the health of the world population. The organisation publishes the annual IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics which presents an overview of the most original and excellent state-of-the-art research in the area of health and biomedical informatics of the past year, across 11 categories.

Dr Mozaffar’s paper, which was co-authored with Dr Kathrin Cresswell, Dr Lisa Lee, Prof Robin Williams, and Prof Aziz Sheikh, has been awarded the best articles published in 2017 in the ‘Human Factors and Organizational Issues’ sub-field of medical informatics category. This paper explores the social and technical challenges relating to integration and interfacing experienced by adopters of standalone and hospital-wide multimodular integrated electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems and offers a potential architecture of how a multimodular local hospital ePrescribing system may interface with other care settings. It aims to address the challenges faced in presence of diverse immature systems, with diverse designs and architectures. The paper highlights the safety risks associated with lack of effective information transfer, then it offers approaches to improve quality and safety by promoting integration of information, and outlining trade-offs between integration and interfacing strategies.