Pictured above is Shay Walsh, managing director, BT Ireland, Captain Jane O’Neill, Engineer Corps, Irish Defence Forces, Lorna Martyn, Ireland regional chair & senior vice president technology, Fidelity Investments, Rhonda Doyle, senior director Field Services...
Today, digital auditing tools and quality management systems make it easier to measure and monitor the quality of healthcare services. While evaluating your own performance is a large piece of the healthcare quality puzzle, it's also crucial to see how your own...
Healthcare and medical device manufacturing has received two welcome boosts. Communications consultancy and outsourcing organisation RelateCare is creating 280 jobs in its new facility in Tralee, Co. Kerry. RelateCare provides administrative support and clinical...
A Dublin-based start-up aiming to transform cancer testing by putting the patient at the centre of prostate cancer diagnosis is in the running for a major European funding prize. EpiCapture, a University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out supported by NovaUCD, is...
Digital healthcare has never been more urgent. Especially in Ireland. About one in four Irish people, around 1.3million people, currently linger on a healthcare waiting list. This July, 627,856 people in Ireland waited for a first outpatient appointment. This is 4,000...
We now live amid a femtech revolution. These are exciting times, with plucky start-ups, mainly started by women, filling big gaps left by Big Pharma and device makers. In areas like new mothers' health, periods, pregnancy or menopause, just to name a few. It was 2016...
It isn't just in Ireland that the hospitals are full. And they are full, by the way. On March 24, 2022 the 1,425 people hospitalised in Ireland with coronavirus is a third higher than that number has been in a year. So hospital at home is, unsurprisingly, hitting the...
If we end up remembering last year for nothing else, it will be for coronavirus, and talk of the Metaverse consuming tech. But as we get used both to working from home, and receiving more of our health care there, will the new metaverse - which has been described as a...
Of the 120,000 people working in STEM in Ireland, just a quarter are women. While female representation has improved over the years negative stereotypes and beliefs remain, which reduces female confidence in STEM early on in life. A cultural shift is needed to...
