HIHI Director and Femtech Founder, Dr Tanya Mulcahy features on The Smarter Health Show podcast with Ivan Yates. The episode is entitled Healthcare in Ireland – What women want. Tanya talks about all things FemTech and the future of womens health in Ireland. She joins the panel conversation with Katie Fay, Operations Team Lead with Randox a healthcare diagnostics company in the UK and Ireland that supports preventative healthcare.
Heidi Davis CEO and founder of IdentifyHer talks to Siobhan on the Business of Health about menopause and common misconceptions and what needs to be changed.
Listen here to the podcast.
We are delighted with the coverage of Femtech@Health Innovation Hub Ireland in the Evening Echo
https://www.echolive.ie/wow/arid-41045633.html
And read more on the launch event in the Irish Examiner
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41014031.html
Check out recent coverage of the awards and the winners of the Clinical Innovation Awards in the Silicon Republic. Irish health professionals developed new health techs products detailed in this article.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/clinical-innovation-awards-2022#:~:text=The%20inaugural%20Clinical%20Innovation%20Awards,at%20the%20Clinical%20Innovation%20Awards.
and also great coverage in Irish Tech news
https://irishtechnews.ie/irish-health-innovation-awards-announced/
Speakers Tom Luby, Director TMC Innovation and Emily Reiser, Associate Director, TMC Innovation provided an overview of TMC Innovation, and how the Centre forms, fosters, recruits, and funds healthcare companies at NUI Galway last Friday to an audience of over 130 people online and in person. They discussed how they engage with and evaluate start-up companies, provide support to entrepreneurs as they broaden their vision and network, and perform diligence on the companies seeking to progress clinical and business milestones.
On the 19th of June 2020 Health Innovation Hub Ireland held a webinar entitled “The Role of Digital Health in the Fight against COVID-19”. This month we welcomed our guest speakers Dr Shourjya Sanyal, CEO of Think Biosolution and Sonia Neary CEO and co- founder of Wellola.
The guest speakers provided an overview of digital health from different perspectives while also providing an insight into each company, the journey to date and the impact and future of digital health. Sonia and Shourjya also discussed the recent success of each company and how they are responding during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We would like to thank Sonia and Shourjya for delivering this webinar and everyone who viewed the webinar on the day.
Please see the video below for further information.
Details on upcoming webinars will be announced shortly.
On the 8th of May 2020 Health Innovation Hub Ireland held a webinar entitled “COVID-19- Challenges and Opportunities for the Medtech Industry”. The webinar was presented by David Scott, Senior Associate with BHSM Solicitors who works in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Department.
Throughout the webinar David provided a brief overview of the medtech regulatory landscape pre COVID-19. He discussed the responses to COVID-19 from both regulatory and industry perspectives while he also spoke about the challenges and opportunities for the medtech industry post COVID-19.
We would like to thank David for delivering this webinar and anyone who viewed the webinar on the day.
Click here to view the webinar slides.
Enterprise Ireland’s Clinical Innovation Award is a €15,000 to investigate the commercial feasibility of an innovative idea in Ireland and international markets. The winner will also receive travel costs to visit the Cleveland Clinic in 2019/2020. It is open to clinicians and healthcare professionals currently employed in the Irish health service.
On 27th June, Health Innovation Hub Ireland hosted a workshop and webinar on the application process for the Enterprise Ireland Clinical Innovation Award in our Galway offices. The workshop was delivered by Dr Claire Walsh, Enterprise Ireland, and John McSweeney, NUI Galway. A video of the session is now available to view for anybody who missed it or would like a recap: http://bit.ly/2JKw7C1
For more information about the Clinical Innovation Award and application process see: https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/funding-supports/Researcher/Funding-to-Commercialise-Research/Clinical-Innovation-Award.html
Applications are open for a new NFQ level 9 Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Innovation – the first focused on the development of ‘Healthcare Innovation Ambassadors’ in Ireland. Uniquely, this programme aims to develop the person to be innovative in their approach and thought processes within healthcare, rather than current offers where the focus is on the innovation itself. The result being the creation of Ambassadors who will lead development and improvements in Irish healthcare overall. Places on the course are mixed, both industry and HSE, with one third offered at a reduced rate for the HSE applicants. Please note, the closing date for HSE Scholarships is 30th June 2019 (closing date for all other applications is 31st July).
To apply please see: https://www.tcd.ie/medicine/clinical-medicine/postgraduate/healthcare-innovation/
Please contact Eimear Galvin of HIHI for more information: galvinei@tcd.ie
Health Innovation Hub Ireland today welcomed an enthusiastic group for Workshop 2 – ‘Design Thinking in Healthcare innovation’ in the TCD Institute of Population Health, Tallaght. The workshop was opened by CEO of Tallaght University Hospital – Lucy Nugent – who shared her insight on the practical value of innovation, outlining that ‘there is no such thing as a bad idea’.
This HIHI workshop series is purpose-designed for those working in the Irish healthcare settings. HIHI workshops are free to attend, with the only stipulation being you must currently be a HSE employee, or working in Irish primary care or voluntary hospital setting. The five workshops guide and encourage participants to explore the potential for innovative approaches within their own healthcare environment. The programme is delivered as a continuum and attendees must have completed Workshop 1 to progress with the remaining four.
Workshop 2 was designed and led by Prof. Barry McMahon, Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin and Chief Physicist and Head of Department of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering at Tallaght University Hospital.
Following an introduction to the key concepts of Design Thinking, this hand-on workshop entailed multiple sessions and a variety of challenges, with participants working collaboratively in groups with a wide range of materials. The group learned to implement aspects of design thinking such as empathy; definition; ideation; prototyping; and testing in order to develop user-centered solutions which could be translated to healthcare settings.
If you are interested in hearing more and keeping up to date with opportunities please email – Eimear Galvin, Manager HIHI Dublin – galvinei@tcd.ie.
Meet innovator and health and safety manager of the Rotunda Hospital, Les Corbett. Full article here:
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/cutting-out-time-wasting-and-saving-resources-1.3886726
