Each year the IET awards a prize to the authors of the best paper published within the last two years in each of the IET’s journals. The first prize for Healthcare Technology Letters has been awarded this year. 2019 Healthcare Technology Letters Premium Award: Udit Satija, Barathram Ramkumar, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan: ‘ Noise-aware dictionary-learning-based sparse representation framework for detection and removal of single and combined noises from ECG signal’, 2017, 4, (1), pp. 2–12