Insight
Covid has created a shift-change towards managing conditions at home. Big pharma and investors are hopping on this big time. SmartHealth’s Pádraig Belton looks internationally at medtech challenges in cardiovascular health, what works in the real world and who’s going...
Pictured above is Neil O’Hare, CIO, Children’s Health Ireland. Pictures by Maura Hickey Cybersecurity is a pressing issue for all organisations, yet as the threats evolve, so too do the sector’s standards and understanding, writes Quinton O’Reilly In her opening...
Since becoming CEO of Tallaght University Hospital in 2019, research and innovation have been among Lucy Nugent’s biggest priorities and now form one of the hospital’s pillars within its five-year strategy. With over 3,000 staff, Tallaght University Hospital is one of...
What is the biggest challenge to innovation? The greatest challenge I have encountered in healthcare innovation is mindset. Our workforce have not been primed to self-identify as innovators, even though it is the nature and prerogative of healthcare workers to...
Business Post columnist Tony O’Brien is the former Director General of the Health Service Executive. A chartered director, his work encompasses a number of health sector companies including FINN360, Lifeline Ambulance, Dermview, Health Navigator (HN), Evofem,...
Healthcare is undergoing fundamental change and facing profound challenges as it continues to deal with the impact of Covid-19. Sláintecare, Ireland’s high-level 10-year policy roadmap to deliver whole system reform and universal healthcare, is supposed to be halfway...
Pictured above is Neil O’Hare, Professor of Health Informatics, UCD and group chief information officer, Children’s Health Ireland; Blessing Usoro, founder, Cyber For SchoolGirls; Niels Torm, CIPP/E, associate director, Data Sustainability & Privacy Solutioning...
Pictured above is Eileen Byrne, managing director, Clanwilliam Health presenting on Pippo. Photos: Maura Hickey Ireland’s digital health ambitions have lagged far behind many countries, but progress has been made and the room for improvement is creating an optimistic...
Pictured above is Jess Kelly, Technology Correspondent, Newstalk and Summit Host. Photos: Maura Hickey Cybersecurity is a pressing issue for all organisations, yet as the threats evolve, so too do the sector’s standards and understanding, writes Quinton O’Reilly In...
What rule would you break to deliver healthcare value? That patient data should travel and not the patient, where possible. Currently patient data is siloed in many systems (paper or digital) within the boundaries of, for example, a hospital’s walls. Lab reports,...
