Dr. Colman Casey gave a presentation on Health Innovation Hub Ireland to the South West Action Plan for Jobs Implementation Committee Meeting update held in Dell EMC on Monday 19th December. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Bob Savage and attended by Ms Mary Mitchell O Connor, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, representatives of IDA, Enterprise Ireland and Cork and Kerry Local Enterprise Organisations.
Digital Hub Development Agency, Molecular Medicine Ireland and Health Research Board Clinical Research Coordination Ireland (HRB CRCI) invite you to a Connected Health workshop that will examine the factors required in translating software for Healthcare. If you are an academic, manufacturer, software developer/engineer, clinician or healthcare professional, or are engaged in research, data analytics or data protection, which incorporates software solutions in the healthcare arena, this interactive practical workshop will be of interest to you. This event will take place in the Digital Hub on Wednesday, 30th November, 2016.
Please click below for registration and further details.
Connected Health Workshop
SBRI Healthcare, an NHS England investment fund hosted by Eastern Academic Health Science Network, is offering innovators the opportunity to apply for up to £1.1 million investment to develop and commercialise innovations that will focus on building General Practice of the Future.
Game changing technologies are sought to address:
- Workload and demand management
- Diagnostics and earlier triage
- Self-care
General Practice of the Future is now live, full details and further information on the Application Process can be found on the SBRI Healthcare website..
Considering applying?
SBRI Healthcare are holding briefing events inCambridge on Tuesday 25 October 2016 and Bristol on 27th October. It will provide delegates with an understanding of:
- the clinical challenges this competition seeks to resolve
- the key application requirements
- how the SBRI Healthcare programme works
- the application process and important deadlines.
This event is free to attend.
Click on the following link for more information and pre-registration is essential.
SBRI Healthcare
Challenge designed to encourage the development of new and relevant technology-enabled solutions to help enrich the lives of women living with metastatic breast cancer around the world. Total of $250,000 in prize funding available to solutions with the greatest potential….
Click here to learn more
Closing date for applications is December 2nd, 2016.
Minister Simon Harris was happy to demonstrate the TickerFit App with CEO Avril Copeland at the Launch of Health Innovation Hub Ireland recently. Avril is currently finalising a GP based trial of the TickerFit App facilitated by HIHI.
MDA and BioInnovate will be hosting a third Medtech Brew due to popular demand, Thursday 1 September, 18:30-20:00, Glasshouse at Electric, in Galway. The theme for the event is, ‘Money, money, money’, and it will explore routes to funding for medtech businesses.
We are delighted to announce our speakers:
- Mike Ryan, Irrus Investments (Angel network)
- Wayne Allen, Embo Medical
- Hugh Kavanagh, Mainstay Medical
Medtech Brew is an informal networking event to support start-ups in medtech. Three entrepreneurs will speak for 10 minutes each (no slides just experience) and share their insights. There will be plenty of time for informal Q&A to ask our entrepreneurs about any aspects of their journey which resonates with you. Medtech Brew is a new style of informal networking forum, set in a pub environment, with the opportunity to discuss and share views, challenge the conventional wisdom, and meet and learn from peers.
The event is free, but you need to register here in advance as there is high demand for places.
Register Here
Simplicity-MDT™ is nSilico’s fully customisable Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) management software platform.
Designed in collaboration with clinical staff, for clinical staff, it enables effective patient management by facilitating discussion of significant clinical results and agreement on best possible treatment plans.
HIH Project Objective
To trial Simplicity MDT on a busy clinical MDT, and investigate the feasibility of developing this platform for multiple MDT applications.
Project Summary
HIH identified the breast cancer team in CUH as a good trial option- this would provide a reference site for other breast cancer units in Ireland and would be a good testbed for developing a mechanism to roll-out to other MDT disciplines. The breast cancer pathology team led the project – initially to develop the platform to capture pathology needs before expanding to surgery and radiology disciplines.
A project team was established and project plan developed. The objective of the project was to trial the MDT platform that addressed the specific needs of the Breast Cancer MDT. The initial phase of the project was exploratory followed by development work- with the company discussing needs with the clinical team, developing the platform then testing and reiterating until the team were happy with the prototype. The clinical team then sought additional functionality that would make the product more effective and provide outputs that are not currently available through their current process (e.g. reporting, tracking, flagging and the inability to close a meeting without an action assigned to each patient). User testing in parallel with the current system took place over a number of weeks, revisions and modification were made based on feedback. Further parallel testing was completed until the team was satisfied that the system was operating effectively.
