Call for papers: 24th Annual Health Informatics Society of Ireland Conference
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This is a lunchtime workshop on the application process for the Clinical Innovation Award hosted by Health Innovation Hub Ireland, and delivered by Dr Claire Walsh, Enterprise Ireland, and John McSweeney, NUI Galway.
It will take place from 12.50pm to 2pm on 27th June in the HIHI office, Stem Café, Ground Floor, Clinical Science Institute, NUI Galway.
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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
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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.
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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
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Dr Aishling Snow and Fiona Snow developed disposable X-ray markers which minimise contamination and improve accuracy. Read about the project:
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Enterprise Ireland in partnership with Cleveland Clinic Innovations recognise the importance of clinical innovation to address current unmet clinical needs for patients within the healthcare system and wider medtech sector. The Clinical Innovation Award is designed to support clinicians and other healthcare professionals in Ireland to explore the commercial feasibility of their innovative ideas and the potential to transform the way medical care is delivered in Ireland and abroad. The Award welcomes innovative technologies at all stages of development from concept, early stage research through to more advanced projects.
The winner of the award will receive a €15,000 Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Feasibility Fund to investigate the commercial feasibility of their innovative idea in Ireland and international markets. The winner will also receive travel costs to visit the Cleveland Clinic in 2019/2020 to showcase their idea to the Cleveland Clinic Innovations and receive feedback from their clinical and commercial networks.
Two runners-up will also receive a €15,000 Commercialisation Feasibility Fund to examine the commercial feasibility of their innovations/technology solutions.
More here
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The official opening of the Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI) Centre in CIT by Mr. Jim Daly, T.D., Minister for Mental Health and Older People and CIT’s president, Dr. Barry O’Connor took place on Monday 20thMay at Cork Institute of Technology.
Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI) was officially established as a national entity in 2016 with the aim of driving collaboration between the health service and enterprise, leading to the development of new healthcare technologies, products and services.
The HIHI consortium, led by University College Cork, now incorporates CIT, NUI Galway, TCD and all of their associated hospital groups. HIHI is supported by Enterprise Ireland and the Health Service Executive with the dual goal of supporting Irish companies to provide solutions to the Irish healthcare system.
The opening of the HIHI offices in CIT today, marks the ‘official’ expansion of HIHI to the CIT campus, however CIT has always played a vital role in supporting HIHI projects and the partnership has been delivering outputs since the early days of the Hub.
HIHI has three pillars of activity: Industry, Healthcare and Education. The first is geared towards companies with innovative solutions that can impact the healthcare system.The second pillar of HIHI’s activity involves capturing and supporting ideas that have been developed by those within healthcare and the third pillar is delivering an education programme to those working in healthcare that informs and encourages innovation in the Irish healthcare context.
“Healthcare needs to be proactive; technology and innovation is enabling this. What we do at HIHI is to identify good innovations and solutions, test, validate and demonstrate their benefit; it’s about providing solutions that have impact”said Professor John Higgins, Principal Investigator and Clinical Lead of Health Innovation Hub Ireland.
The CIT hub of HIHI is playing a pivotal role in assisting companies to harness and develop these new technologies. HIHI in CIT is based within the MEDIC Centre and provides design, development and prototyping expertise that is critical for health care product development. HIHI companies also benefit for CIT’s Innovation Ecosystem which includes the Nimbus and CAPPA Research Centres as well as the Rubicon Centre for start-ups. HIHI in CIT is ideally placed to provide the tech know-how and support for companies intent on developing new and innovative healthcare systems and products in the region. The HIHI partnership facilitates access to the healthcare system through the academic partners in UCC, TCD and NUI Galway and their hospital groups; the South-South West Hospital group, the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group and the Soalta Healthcare Group.
Dr Barry O’Connor President of CIT said:
“The opening of the HIHI offices in CIT is formally recognising what has always been a strong collaborative relationship. CIT and UCC have worked together on health innovations since the pilot days of the Health Innovation Hub. CIT has delivered a number of exciting projects including a pilot, based in Mitchelstown, using technology to enable a community to provide care and support for older or vulnerable people in their community. This project is a collaboration between Independent Living Ireland, Friendly Call Cork, HIHI and CIT’s Nimbus Research Centre and is supported by Enterprise Ireland and Cork County Council through SBIR programme. CIT is also home to a significant number of other Biomedical devices and biomedical engineering research and development projects which complement our activity within the general health informatics space”.
Speaking at the opening Minister Daly said “I am delighted to be launching the HIHI centre in CIT today – it’s an important component of the HIHI initiative. One important strength of HIHI is fostering a unique partnership between the health service and the enterprise sector, with the aim of supporting Irish companies and improving patient outcomes.
I am especially pleased that the calls for projects over the last couple of years has improving care for older people in the health service as a particular focus. I look forward to seeing, in the coming years, how the projects that are being supported by HIHI demonstrate their contribution to the jobs agenda, to improvements in patient care, find efficiencies in service delivery and support health service practitioners in bringing innovative ideas to fruition”.
According to Jane O’Flynn, Project Manager at CIT HIHI centre, “The CIT HIHI office is going from strength to strength since its inception in 2016. We provide the expertise to guide and to advise on design, validation and commercialisation, where companies need to test or validate a product. We do this within the healthcare system providing clinical access that would not normally be available to them. We are ideally based here at CIT with such a rich medical innovation ecosystem, strengthened by our HIHI partners, to provide this knowledge to the health industry.” For further information, please contact JaneOFlynn@cit.ie
Health Innovation Hub Ireland was officially launched in September 2016,
since then:
Innovation In tothe Healthcare system
Of these 71 applications, 30 were to the Focussed Call- which sought innovations to ‘Enable Positive Ageing’.
The 9 projects selected under the Focussed Call are provided in table 1 below.
(Case Study: Independent Living Ireland with Friendly Call Cork – community based care of older persons- see below)
Innovation Outof the healthcare system- Healthcare staff ideas
(Case Study: The development of an exercise and weight management programme for people with osteoarthritis of the knee -see below).
Education and Culture Change:
Case Study: Technology Enabled Community Based Care of Older Persons.
Amicitia is a hybrid social enterprise based in Athenry, Co. Galway. Along with their trading partner, Independent Living Ireland (ILI), it delivers technology and social supports to empower socially disadvantaged members of society and build smart, sustainable communities. ILI is currently developing a technology platform, which builds on the features of existing smart technologies and extend these, using the next generation ‘Internet of Things’ applications to support the elderly and those with disabilities. A prototype of the platform is currently being tested in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. The platform is being developed in partnership with Friendly Call Cork and Nimbus Research Centre in Cork Institute of Technology. It is supported by Cork County Council and Enterprise Ireland through the Small Business Research Innovation (SBIR) programme. Health Innovation Hub Ireland is coordinating and facilitating the project. The platform was co-designed with the members of community. Wearable and ambient fall detection technologies are included in the platform. These technologies can be used both in the home and the community. This is a true example of collaborative engagement between industry, the community and our health and academic centres.
Case Study:The development of an exercise and weight management programme for people with osteoarthritis of the knee. Jane O’Flynn, CIT is working with Dr Brenda Monahan, a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist based in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan to assist her in the development of a programme aimed at managing quality of life for patients with knee osteoarthritis. This programme focuses on exercise and weight management, to help reduce pain and improve function, assisting patients to prolong the time to surgery, or to minimise pain pre-surgery.
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The Irish Times Innovation Awards showcase and reward excellence in innovation across a range of groundbreaking products and services.
The Innovation Awards are now open for entries…
Please click on below link for more information and registration.
http://www.irishtimes.com/innovationawards
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The Future Health Summit is now in its 17th year and continues to share international healthcare best practice and innovation with an audiences of key influencers and decision makers.
This year’s theme is: “Innovation,Entrepreneurship & Disruption in Healthcare”.
The event will take place on the 20th and 21st May, 2019 in the RDS, Merrion Road, Dublin 4.
For more information and registration, please click here