Posts by: Caroline McGarry
Health Innovation Hub Ireland launches first GreenTech @ HIHI sustainable healthcare pilot study
Healthcare contributes 4.4% to global greenhouse gas emissions. Ireland currently ranks as a major emitter (between 0.5 and 1 million t) when compared to other countries. There is a growing…
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HIHI launches new pilot study on a digital health app “I Know Me” which is set to empower CF patients to become the “CEO” of their own bodies with more control over personal health data
Cork, 15th May, 2024. May marks Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Awareness Month and this year’s focused theme is Resilient. CF is a genetic disease which affects the lungs and the digestive…
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Health Innovation Hub Ireland commences new AI pilot study which is set to improve the accuracy of bladder scans with Cardiogenics and the Urology Department at University Hospital Galway
Great to kick off another Health Innovation Hub Ireland pilot study! HIHI’s Galway office are currently working on an AI tool with Cardiogenics and the Urology Department of University Hospital…
Continue reading »Read coverage in EchoLive.ie on AVeta Medical with their VITA AV device set to help women suffering from vaginal atrophy
Great article by Deirdre McArdle for the EchoLive.ie as she continues her FemTech innovation series. This week AVeta Medical is featured along with founder Paula Newell. The device repairs vaginal…
Continue reading »Read Vish Gain’s article for the Silicon Republic on the release of the HIHI Telea pilot. “Pilot study of the Telea app gives hope to people with Parkinsons”
Read the full article here Pilot study of the Telea app gives hope to people with Parkinson’s
Continue reading »Great article on HIHI’s pilot with Telea in the Irish Examiner – UCC start-up hopes to improve speech for people with Parkinson’s disease through new app
Read Michelle McGlynn’s article here https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41371588.html
Continue reading »Great coverage in Irish Tech News on HIHI’s product pilot with Telea which saw a 10% increase in voice in patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Read the full article and promising results of the pilot here. https://irishtechnews.ie/world-parkinsons-day-telea-offers-new-hope/
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On World Parkinson’s Day HIHI and Telea release results of new pilot study which offers hope to people living with Parkinsons disease
Irish pilot study sparks new hope for people with Parkinson’s disease, prolonging their ability to communicate by slowing down the progression of the disease on vocal function. A HIHI pilot…
Continue reading »Read about Saor Health with their app which will help women feel safer exercising outside. The app is a winning product from the HIHI FemTech Call competition
Read Deirdre McArdle’s full article in WOW (Women on Wednesday) on the Saor Health’s app. It is part of a FemTech series spotlighting the winners of the FemTech Innovation Call…
Continue reading »Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Innovation now taking applications. Join the informational webinar to find out more
Do you want to be at the forefront of healthcare innovation leadership and become an innovation champion of the future? Apply today to the Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Innovation. This…
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Read the feature in WOW this week on My Moves Matter an app designed to help Parkinsons patients track their symptoms
Read Deirdre McArdle’s full article with founder of My Moves Matter Richelle Flanagan, a winner of HIHI’s FemTech call competition. https://www.echolive.ie/wow/arid-41362345.html
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The HIHI Team were delighted to present at the recent WHO meeting in Copenhagen “Building a Public Health Innovation Ecosystem”
The Health Innovation Hub Ireland team were delighted to present recently in Copenhagen at the WHO Regional Office for Europe meeting “Building a Public Health Innovation Ecosystem”. Our colleagues Dr…
Continue reading »Read an article in this weeks’ WOW, Women on Wednesdays featuring identifyHer, a HIHI supported company, with their new tech sensor which monitors the menopause
Read Deirdre McArdle article for WOW (Women on Wednesday) for the Evening Echo featuring HIHI supported company identifyHer. New tech is getting to the crux of perimenopause (echolive.ie) identifyHer was…
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Gamechanging wearable sensor technology set to prolong independent living for Ireland’s elderly population
HIHI is this week spotlighting a game changing wearable technology for elderly people living in the community in Ireland. As the Irish population over the age of 65 increases over…
Continue reading »Vox-AI amongst winners of HIHI’s FemTech Innovation Call with an AI driven tool centred on menopause management
Vox-AI is an AI-driven platform that uses advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology, complemented by multilingual spoken word bots and avatars. MenoMate is a chatbot centred on menopause management and…
Continue reading »In advance of International Women’s Health Week – Meet one of the winners of HIHI’s FemTech Innovation Call indentifyHer
identifyHer Ltd is a femtech company focussed on detecting and tracking menopausal symptoms. The identifyHer platform is a wearable biosensor to detect and track menopausal symptoms with an accompanying application to present…
Continue reading »Dr Tanya Mulcahy Director of HIHI and Founder of Femtech Ireland to speak at the upcoming National Menopause Summit – Advocating for change
HIHI are delighted to announce that Dr Tanya Mulcahy will speak again this year at the National Menopause Summit. The event takes place on the 11th and 12th April 2024…
Continue reading »The Menopause Hub among the winning companies of HIHI’s FemTech Innovation competition
The Menopause Hub App will allow women to track their menopause and perimenopause symptoms prior and post treatment and to book appointments. It will provide medication and appointment reminders and has…
Continue reading »Meet Aurin another winning company from HIHI’s FemTech Innovation competition that aims to relieve the symptoms of menopause
The AURIN platform is a femtech innovation for the treatment of menopausal vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes and night sweats). AURIN comes from a team of researchers from University of Galway and University…
Continue reading »Meet SAOR Health one of the winners of HIHI’s Femtech Innovation competition with a health app that will enable women to be safe and confident when exercising outdoors
The SAOR Health app will let women set their emergency contacts (SOS Tribe) and share real-time locations with trusted people (Training Tribe). This gives women confidence to exercise outdoors without risking…
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