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          If you have an idea, prototype or market ready healthcare innovation and would like to be considered for HIHI support, please apply through our Innovation Portal.
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          Femtech @ Health Innovation Hub Ireland will stimulate and support the development of high potential new products, services and start-ups in Femtech.
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          From our annual report to peer review publications, HIHI provides a unique insight into Irish healthcare innovation.
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Great article on HIHI’s pilot with Telea in the Irish Examiner – UCC start-up hopes to improve speech for people with Parkinson’s disease through new app
15th April 2024

Read Michelle McGlynn’s article here https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41371588.html  
Great coverage in Irish Tech News on HIHI’s product pilot with Telea which saw a 10% increase in voice in patients with Parkinson’s Disease
15th April 2024

Read the full article and promising results of the pilot here. https://irishtechnews.ie/world-parkinsons-day-telea-offers-new-hope/
On World Parkinson’s Day HIHI and Telea release results of new pilot study which offers hope to people living with Parkinsons disease
11th April 2024

Irish pilot study sparks new hope for people with Parkinson’s disease, prolonging their ability to communicate by slowing down the progression of the disease on vocal function. A HIHI pilot…
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
10th 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…
Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Innovation now taking applications. Join the informational webinar to find out more
3rd 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…
Read the feature in WOW this week on My Moves Matter an app designed to help Parkinsons patients track their symptoms
28th 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    
The HIHI Team were delighted to present at the recent WHO meeting in Copenhagen “Building a Public Health Innovation Ecosystem”
27th 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…
Newstalk Breakfast covers findings of new HIHI report
26th 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…
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
25th 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…
Smart D8 Call for pilots Community Health, Health Literacy and Environment – Closes this Friday 29
24th 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…
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
21st 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…
Gamechanging wearable sensor technology set to prolong independent living for Ireland’s elderly population
6th 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…
Vox-AI amongst winners of HIHI’s FemTech Innovation Call with an AI driven tool centred on menopause management
21st 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…
In advance of International Women’s Health Week – Meet one of the winners of HIHI’s FemTech Innovation Call indentifyHer
21st February 2024

identifyHer Ltd is a femtech company focussed on detecting and tracking menopausal symptoms. The identifyHer platform is a wearable biosensor to detect and track menopausal symptoms with an accompanying application to present…
Dr Tanya Mulcahy Director of HIHI and Founder of Femtech Ireland to speak at the upcoming National Menopause Summit – Advocating for change
19th February 2024

HIHI are delighted to announce that Dr Tanya Mulcahy will speak again this year at the National Menopause Summit. The event takes place on the 11th and 12th April 2024…
The Menopause Hub among the winning companies of HIHI’s FemTech Innovation competition
7th February 2024

The Menopause Hub App will allow women to track their menopause and perimenopause symptoms prior and post treatment and to book appointments. It will provide medication and appointment reminders and has…
Meet Aurin another winning company from HIHI’s FemTech Innovation competition that aims to relieve the symptoms of menopause
6th February 2024

The AURIN platform is a femtech innovation for the treatment of menopausal vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes and night sweats). AURIN comes from a team of researchers from University of Galway and University…
Meet SAOR Health one of the winners of HIHI’s Femtech Innovation competition with a health app that will enable women to be safe and confident when exercising outdoors
6th February 2024

  The SAOR Health app will let women set their emergency contacts (SOS Tribe) and share real-time locations with trusted people (Training Tribe). This gives women confidence to exercise outdoors without risking…
A Postpartum product from PPR Healthcare among winners of HIHI Femtech Innovation competition
31st January 2024

PPR Healthcare develop products to help the recovery process after childbirth for mothers. Mul tie Briefs is a new product range in development from PPR Healthcare. Read about the product which…
Spotlighting MyMovesMatter another winning start-up emerging from HIHI’s first FemTech Innovation Competition
30th January 2024

Read about this pioneering app for Parkinson’s disease that enables women with the disease to track their symptoms and improve quality of life My Moves Matter – Health Innovation Hub…