The inaugural Clinical Innovation Awards were hosted by Health Innovation Hub Ireland and Enterprise Ireland with the aim of supporting healthcare professionals to explore the commercial feasibility of their ideas.
Professor Seamus Morris scooped the overall award for his product, Mint, presented to him by HIHI’s Dr Steven Griffin. Three other winners and their inventions were also awarded prizes of €15,000 from Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Feasibility Fund.
Read more on the awards and on how Mint aims to overhaul the treatment of neural compression in this article in Silicon Republic here
The Launch of Femtech @HIHI event took place in UCC on 23rd November!
Watch all the amazing participants and hear how they are excited to be involved in the Femtech network here
Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is a disruptive technology with promising potential in the health sector.
The technology has not yet been fully integrated in hospitals and the health care sector. There are different reasons for this. Some of the barriers are the lack of knowledge and skills on the use of the technology, as well as a complex value chain requiring the cooperation of stakeholders from different backgrounds. The ALADDIN project aims to tackle the gap in knowledge and help create a better cooperation among stakeholders, contributing to the integration of additive manufacturing in the health sector.
ALADDIN is an ERASMUS + project that brings together six European organisations developing an innovative training programme on additive manufacturing in hospitals, targeting not only health professional working in hospitals, such as Doctors, Surgeons, and Biotechnologists, but also Engineering Students with a future in the health sector.
Until September 2022, ALADDIN developed a training methodology, a teaching guide, training contents customised for each target group and an e-Learning platform. The contents were released in English, Spanish and French. Three multiplier events were organised: one on the 4th of June in Belgium, organised by HOPE; one on the 1st of September in Spain, organised by IDIVAL; and one on the 15th of September in Ireland, organised by HIHI.
Three pilot sessions were also organised through the summer period (June to September) in the three languages. Following the pilots, surveys were sent to the students and to the teachers to collect feedback on the course. A validation report was compiled in October 2022, describing the results of these surveys.
In September 2022, the Exploitation and Sustainability Report was updated. This plan sets the targets and procedures for ensuring the project’s results will be exploited after its end. It also specifies the guidelines for exploitation and transfer of the project results outside the original project consortium and project duration.
The contents of the course are now under preparation to be shared on the websites of each partner of the project.
Women could wear a sensor to detect symptoms making it easier to discuss their condition with doctors, IdentifyHer, an Irish tech start-up, is hoping.
Read more on this story in the Irish Examiner
Learn more about the study:
Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI) is supporting a new Irish Femtech start-up (IdentifyHer) in developing a wearable product that detects perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms. This study will assess the feasibility of using a (CE approved) wearable sensor to automatically detect vasomotor events in women.
What’s involved? Women who are experiencing vasomotor symptoms will be asked to wear the sensor for 3 days and record the time of an event on an app while at the same time the sensor will automatically detect and record any vasomotor events.
This data will be collected anonymously and will be used to further develop a wearable device to detect these symptoms in the future, making it easier for clinicians to diagnose perimenopause and provide the best treatment for each woman.
This study has been approved by the UCC Social Research Ethics Committee.
To register your interest in this study, please click here
For further information on this study contact t.mulcahy@ucc.ie
Participants will be asked attend a brief information session in the Health Innovation Hub, Western Gateway Building, UCC, where they will be provided with instructions and a wearable sensor (day 1). Participants will be asked wear the sensor for three days and record their hot flushes or night sweats on an app, returning the sensor to the Health Innovation Hub (day 4). Participants will also be invited to complete a questionnaire on day 4.
Learn more about femtech@Health Innovation Hub Ireland and join our network here
Irish Femtech industries are to benefit from the launch of new Femtech initiative at Health Innovation Hub Ireland. HIHI a government of Ireland initiative puts the spotlight on the development of Femtech in Ireland. Femtech is a relatively new area of development bringing together the essential players in femtech development including entrepreneurs industry, clinical experts, research and business expertise.
Read more here:https://irishtechnews.ie/femtech-network-improve-womens-health-in-ireland/
Femtech @ Health Innovation Hub Ireland wants to create an ecosystem of entrepreneurs and investors in the sector
A new initiative in Ireland aims to create a network of individuals in the femtech industry developing technologies that focus on women’s health.
Launched by the Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI), the initiative aims to bring together essential players in the femtech industry, from entrepreneurs and clinical experts to business leaders, to stimulate and support growth in the sector.
HIHI is a Government-backed body based in University College Cork that supports businesses in Ireland innovating in health-related fields. In the past five years, it has supported more than 400 Irish health-tech companies.
Read more here: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/femtech-health-innovation-hub-ireland-women-tech
Listen to An Taoiseach, Micheal Martin, discussing the value of Femtech @HIHIreland:
Femtech @HIHIreland and An Taoiseach, Micheal Martin
Join our Femtech Ireland network on https://hih.ie/engage/femtech/
Listen to HIHI Director, Tanya Mulcahy, speaking to 96FM and C103 News reporter, Mairead Twohig on Femtech @ Health Innovation Hub Ireland…..
https://www.96fm.ie/news/96fm-news-and-sport/cork-is-set-to-become-irelands-femtech-capital/
Health Innovation Hub Ireland are delighted to announce the last in this year’s HIHI Pulse Webinar Series will take place on Friday 30th September 2022.
The panel will be moderated by Louise Callanan, CIO and eHealth Director, South/South West Hospital Group, CIO RHA D South, Assistant National Director HSE.
Guest speakers include:
Hazel Chappell, Founder and Digital Managing Partner, ishca health Inc
William O’Brien, Director of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Forensics, PwC Ireland
Professor Donal Sexton, Consultant Nephrologist St James’s Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor with Trinity College Dublin, Researcher at TILDA and Principal Investigator with ADAPT
Please submit your questions in advance to
eimer.oconnell@universityofgalway.ie
When: 14:00 pm Friday 30th September 2022
Register HERE
The ALADDIN multiplier event was organised by Health Innovation Hub Ireland and took place on Thursday September 15th 2022.
The event began with Dr Steven Griffin, Manager HIHI Galway, providing an overview of the ALADDIN project. Dr Kevin O’Sullivan and Dr Chrisotpher Soraghan then delivered their presentations on the types, application, and value of AM in healthcare.
We would like to thank Dr Kevin O’Sullivan and Dr Christopher Soraghan and all attendees for joining us both in person and online on the day. Visit
https://project-aladdin.eu/# for more information on Project ALADDIN.
