Award for ill children plan

A TECHNOLOGY project designed to reduce the isolation that chronically ill children experience in hospital has won an award.

The Solas initiative, the brainchild of Paula Hicks, a project manager from the Centre for Health Informatics at TCD, is a wireless virtual private network for children in the cancer unit in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin.

Solas was among the winners at yesterday’s Astellas Changing Tomorrow Awards 2010.