A healthcare need is a requirement for medical services, health-related support, or healthcare operations to maintain or improve a person’s physical or mental well-being. This includes prevention, treatment, chronic care, mental health support, rehabilitation, and the systems or services that enable effective healthcare delivery.

There is no quota for the number of applications selected for shortlisting or eventual winners. The number of applicants to progress through the review stages depends on the quality of the applications submitted. Previous calls selected as many as 15 winning innovations.

The winning AI innovations will be:

• awarded the title of HIHI.AI Call 2025 winner/runner up
• entitled to use HIHI.AI Call 2025 winner's stamp
• offered the opportunity to work with HIHI to conduct a pilot or clinical evaluation project in an Irish healthcare setting or with the target market
• issued with a final HIHI Project Report and a published Case Study, which may be useful as evidence of efficacy, value and impacts for investors and potential customers

HIHI will work with a winning innovator to pilot their product or service in an Irish healthcare setting or with the target end-user. HIHI will seek out a suitable location to pilot this innovation from its network. A HIHI project manager will be assigned to work closely with the innovator and to manage this pilot. The scope of the pilot will be agreed with all parties (company, healthcare site, HIHI) in a HIHI project agreement document. HIHI will oversee the management of the pilot, gather and analyse the results of the pilot and prepare a final project report.

Innovators should note that a HIHI project:

• is conducted at no cost to healthcare setting
• is carried out and executed with all reasonable skill and care
• is not part of a HSE procurement process
• the innovator must provide the innovation and any necessary training free for duration of the pilot
• requires the innovator to obtain all regulatory and ethical licences, consents and approvals necessary to allow it to carry out the project
• requires the innovator to affect and maintain in force all necessary insurance coverage for the performance of its obligations
• requires that each party complies with all applicable laws and with due regard for health and safety of all involved
• ensures that each party shall retain all right and title to, and interest in its own project intellectual property
• requires that all confidential information is maintained as secret and confidential

Case studies of some previous pilot projects can be found at: https://hih.ie/case-studies.

No, HIHI does not provide funding for projects from this call.

No, winners of this HIHI Call do not have to pay for the agreed project.

Companies or individuals who are not eligible to apply to the HIHI.AI Call 2025 can request support from HIHI through the HIHI Innovation Portal. HIHI provides support to companies and individual whose innovation is focused on any healthcare needs and is at various stages of development (idea, prototype, pre-commercial and market ready). See https://hih.ie/engage/innovation-portal .