It’s the answers to the quiz of the year!

The annual eHealth Insider quiz drew a bumper crop of entries, with five people getting 24 out of 25 questions right.

Nobody got all the answers, though, with the death of Read Codes pioneer Dr James Read and the launch of the Department of Health's 3 Million Lives (3ML) campaign most likely to trip people up.

Indeed, a number of entrants admitted they had no idea what 3ML stood for, while others came up with creative responses: maturity level three and (with a bit of help from Google) "deutsche radio station" among them.

Congratulations to Thomas Porteus, web developer from EMIS, who wins the Amazon voucher, after being picked out of a hat of almost all-correct entrants.

Alphabetti spaghetti

The NHS has never been short of acronyms, but 2011 delivered a new crop. What do the following stand for?

1. NHS CB - NHS Commissioning Board
2. AQP - Any Qualified Provider
3. SHMI - Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator
4. CCIO - Chief Clinical Information Officer
5. 3ML - Three Million Lives (campaign)

They said what?

Identify who was responsible for the following statements, all of which made ‘quote of the week’ in EHI newsletters in 2011:

1. “It’s the DIY NHS! Patients told to carry out their own tests at home.” Which paper put this headline over a story about plans for a big telehealth rollout that was announced in December? - The Daily Mail
2. “If it was Stalin on this platform, I don’t think all these people would be leaving.” Which allegedly over-powerful NHS manager made this remark, as NHS Confederation conference delegates dashed for their trains? - NHS (Commissioning Board) chief executive Sir David Nicholson
3. Which opposition leader poked fun at the Prime Minister for accepting major changes to the health bill back in June by saying: “David Cameron is making history – he is the first PM to set out five pledges to protect the NHS from his own policies.” - Labour leader Ed Miliband
4. Which Conservative MP greeted the National Audit Office’s third report on the national programme in May by saying: “This turkey will never fly, and it is time the Department of Health faced reality and channelled the remaining funds into something useful that will actually benefit patients.” - Conservative MP Richard Bacon
5. “It simply cannot be sustainable in the health service of the future for skilled staff to continue to send referral letters using second class post.” Which head of the NHS Confederation – who left later in the year – said this when publishing a new report on technology back in January? -Nigel Edwards

The year in numbers

Match these millions to their news stories: three, thirty one, one point six, forty four, nine.

1. The number of telehealth devices the DH wants to see deployed over five years - Three
2. The average cost of Cerner Millennium in London, according to the Department of Health in a note to the Commons’ public accounts committee - Thirty one  
3. The number of Summary Care Records now in place across England - Nine 
4. The amount that NHS Direct saves the NHS every year – according to NHS Direct - Forty four
5. The number of patient records that East Kent PCT lost when it sent a filing cabinet to landfill with an unencrypted CD inside it - One point six

Entrances and exits

Who arrived on the NHS IT scene in 2011, and who left?

1. Who is both going and coming as chief executive of the NHS and chief executive of the new NHS Commissioning Board? - Sir David Nicholson
2. Who quit as the Department of Health’s director general of informatics and NHS chief information officer? And who took over her job? - Christine Connelly and Katie Davis
3. Which healthcare computing pioneer, who would have been in a unique position to code his own condition, died in the summer? - Dr James Read
4. Which Australian health IT firm was acquired by the local service provider trying to implement its Lorenzo software in the North, Midlands and East? - iSoft (acquired by CSC)
5. And which UK software supplier and integration expert was snapped up by another US giant with a big base of legacy products in the NHS? - System C (acquired by McKesson)

Alive, alive... oh

Some organisations were able to get their big system implementations live in 2011, some missed – sometimes spectacularly:

1. Which trust, which first implemented Lorenzo in June 2010, was finally able to say “it works!” in July this year? - University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay
2. Which mental health trust not only failed to go live with Lorenzo in April, but quit the national programme and then headed up an alternative procurement for electronic patient record systems? - Pennine Care
3. Which Southern trust was finally able to go live with Cerner Millennium in August 2011 – two years after it was forced to shelve the deployment when Fujitsu quit the national programme? - Royal United Hospital Bath
4. Which two trusts completed a full set of Cerner Millennium ‘greenfield’ go-lives in the South in December? - Oxford University Hospitals and North Bristol
5. Which Yorkshire trust with few nice things to say about NPfIT had to put back its deployment of an alternative system not once but twice in 2011? - The Rotherham