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However brilliant its idea and implementation, it's really the reimbursement model that can make or break a plucky start-up. And the roadmap to reimbursement is, lately, a fast changing one. Perhaps nowhere more so, maybe, than in digital therapeutics. Take the...
Cybersecurity for health devices is now predicted to be a $1.2billion annual market by 2025 amid increasing data breaches. We investigate the increasing number of cybersecurity players who are targeting the health tech space and changing the way we protect healthcare...
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,...
EIT Health is Europe’s largest health innovation network, made up of healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, learners, researchers, patients and clinicians. A unique European body, it offers a depth of clinical pathway expertise and over 20 accelerator...
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...
Declan Murphy, founder and CEO of Isaac Care, on how overcoming technology barriers can help deliver world-class care in the community Isaac Care is a unique digital health platform designed to enable health services and families to provide the best care possible to...
Both with blockchain, and much other of the scalpel-sharp cutting edge of medical tech, pharmaceutical companies' background and resources mean they are currently doing much of the heavy lifting in innovation, especially in Ireland. The pharmaceutical industry "has...
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...
