On September 4, 2008, the Region Hospital of Horsens, Central Denmark Region, recieved the prestigeous award: The Golden Scalpel - an award for Initiative founded by the important news magazine, Dagens Medicin (Daily Medicine). The Minister for Health Jakob Axel Nielsen presented the award to Region Hospital of Horsens for creating "The Interactive Hospital" (the product Cetrea Surgical). Chief medical doctor Steen Friberg and head nurse Marie-Louise Ulsøe recieved the award on behalf of Region Hospital of Horsens. The award session included speeches from Minister for Health Jakob Axel Nielsen, Chairman of Central Denmark Region & Chairman of Danish Regions Bent Hansen, editor from Dagens Medicin Kristian Lund as well as speeches from Steen Friberg and Marie-Louise Ulsøe.

Dagens Medicin (Daily Medicine) has published a news story about the Award Presentation. They also report on the benefits realized in Horsens from the implementation of "The Interactive Hospital".

Cetrea congratulates the Region Hospital of Horsens with the prestigeous award.

The Interactive Hospital had participation from researchers of Pervasive Healthcare Århus and today The Interactive Hospital has been commercialised during the company Cetrea, which has commercialised The Interactive Hospital under the product name: Cetrea Surgical.

As reason for the award going to Region Hospital of Horsens the award committee stated:

Region Hospital of Horsens under management of Chief medical doctor Steen Friberg is awarded with The Golden Scalpel 2008 for developing the iHospital (The Interactive Hospital - editor: today Cetrea Surgical) who have broken existing barriers in the use of IT in the optimization of work processes in the Hospital.

The basis for the iHospital is an IT platform with large touch screens with a set of information and facilities which creates overview, makes communication easier, optimizes the use of resources and increases the patient safety and quality of documentation.

Here we are looking at an IT solution which in an intuitive way sells itself to the staff as an efficient tool to monitor the complex and different tasks when it comes to getting through the daily surgeries. The users are this way significantly involved.

The iHospital is a role model that is likely to be implemented in all Hospitals throughout Region Central Denmark.

On top of this the project has great benefits for research purposes.