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Read about Saor Health with their app which will help women feel safer exercising outside. The app is a winning product from the HIHI FemTech Call competition

| Posted on: 10 April, 2024

Read Deirdre McArdle’s full article in WOW (Women on Wednesday) on the Saor Health’s app. It is part of a FemTech series spotlighting the winners of the FemTech Innovation Call…

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Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Innovation now taking applications. Join the informational webinar to find out more

News | Posted on: 3 April, 2024

Do you want to be at the forefront of healthcare innovation leadership and become an innovation champion of the future? Apply today to the Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Innovation. This…

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Read the feature in WOW this week on My Moves Matter an app designed to help Parkinsons patients track their symptoms

| Posted on: 28 March, 2024

Read Deirdre McArdle’s full article with founder of My Moves Matter Richelle Flanagan, a winner of HIHI’s FemTech call competition. https://www.echolive.ie/wow/arid-41362345.html    

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The HIHI Team were delighted to present at the recent WHO meeting in Copenhagen “Building a Public Health Innovation Ecosystem”

| Posted on: 27 March, 2024

The Health Innovation Hub Ireland team were delighted to present recently in Copenhagen at the WHO Regional Office for Europe meeting “Building a Public Health Innovation Ecosystem”. Our colleagues Dr…

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Newstalk Breakfast covers findings of new HIHI report

| Posted on: 26 March, 2024

The ‘Buying All-Island in Healthcare – North and South’ report was launched yesterday with an interview on Newstalk Breakfast. This was carried across all national bulletins throughout the day and…

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New HIHI cross-border report finds common barriers for smaller vendors in healthcare and urges an all-island shift to innovation procurement, enabling SMEs and Start-ups to thrive in domestic health tech markets

| Posted on: 25 March, 2024

Launched today, the ‘Buying All-Island in Healthcare – North and South’ report publishes the findings and recommendations framework of the All-Island Medtech SMEs (AIMS) initiative, delivered through a 12-month cross-border…

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Smart D8 Call for pilots Community Health, Health Literacy and Environment – Closes this Friday 29

| Posted on: 24 March, 2024

Smart D8 Opens New Call for Pilot Projects following three years of success New call for pilot projects in three areas: Community Health, Health Literacy and Environment Up to six…

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Read an article in this weeks’ WOW, Women on Wednesdays featuring identifyHer, a HIHI supported company, with their new tech sensor which monitors the menopause

| Posted on: 21 March, 2024

Read Deirdre McArdle article for WOW (Women on Wednesday) for the Evening Echo featuring HIHI supported company identifyHer.  New tech is getting to the crux of perimenopause (echolive.ie) identifyHer was…

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Gamechanging wearable sensor technology set to prolong independent living for Ireland’s elderly population

| Posted on: 6 March, 2024

HIHI is this week spotlighting a game changing wearable technology for elderly people living in the community in Ireland. As the Irish population over the age of 65 increases over…

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Vox-AI amongst winners of HIHI’s FemTech Innovation Call with an AI driven tool centred on menopause management

| Posted on: 21 February, 2024

    Vox-AI is an AI-driven platform that uses advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology, complemented by multilingual spoken word bots and avatars. MenoMate is a chatbot centred on menopause management and…

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