Category: Health ICT

May 16, 2018

Grandis to Encourage Use of Technology in Elderly Care

Ciara Stack Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, ICS Foundation, News, Technology

Grandis XXI aims to encourage the integration of modern sensor, diagnostic and communications technology into the care of older peoples, enabling them to live independently for as long as possible. The context is the ageing populations across Europe, and the increasing cost of providing care for the many older people who are living healthy lives well into their 80’s, 90’s and beyond. In addition, as with many jobs, it is increasingly difficult to recruit carers, so the assistance of technology to augment the services provided to the elderly is to be welcomed. Read more

November 21, 2017

Can we make care robots affordable for those who need them?

Ciara Stack Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI, News

Via siliconrepublic.com

Stevie, a robot built by engineers to meet a very present need in assisted care homes, has no plans to follow the crowd.

Earlier today (13 November), a team of robotic engineers led by Prof Conor McGinn of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) unveiled a robot called Stevie, which, if all goes according to plan, will be introduced into care homes in less than five years’ time. Read more

October 17, 2017

eHealth Innovation Challenge – Hackathon Event

Ciara Stack Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI, News, Technology

Over €5000 in Cash Prizes and Mentorship for the winning teams at the Second Annual eHealth Innovation Challenge!

Topic: Connecting for the Future: Elderly Mental Health

This hackathon will take place over 2 days on the 21st & 22nd Oct 2017 at Accenture The Dock. This year the theme is all about mental health – if you think you could build a working prototype of something in a 24hr Hack time that can harness the power of technology to help our colleagues, patients and HSE network, then this is for you! Read more

November 4, 2016

Expert says “Medicine will advance more in the next 10 years than it did in the past century”

Ciara Stack Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI, News, Technology

Via Vivak Wadhwa

Now is an excellent time for medicine and health technology advances, with billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker and huge companies like Google funding projects and research. Read more

October 7, 2016

LauraLynn Children’s Hospice Win eHealth/Digital Award at IMSTA Awards!

Ciara Stack Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI, News, STEM, Technology

Congratulations to LauraLynn Children’s Hospice who won the HISI sponsored eHealth/Digital Award at the 5th Annual IMSTA Awards, held at the Croke Park Conference centre on October 6th. Read more

September 6, 2016

National Electronic Referral Programme – Waiting List Solution

Ciara Stack Department of Health, eHealth Ireland Ecosystem, Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI, News

In January 2011, a National Electronic General GP Referral Pilot Project was established to achieve an electronic referral pathway between GPs and seven pilot hospitals. The Cork and Kerry Reconfiguration Team managed the pilot on behalf of the Clinical Programmes and Strategy Directorate (CPSD) Primary Care Programme. The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, incorporating the National Children’s Hospital (now Tallaght Hospital, Dublin) was included in the pilot, along with the six acute hospitals in Cork and Kerry. Read more

August 15, 2016

Can machines really replace humans in the future workplace?

Ciara Stack Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, STEM, Tech Week, Technology

Via www.ted.com

Research carried out at Oxford University in 2013, concluded that almost one in every two jobs have a high risk of being automated by machines in the near future. Machine learning is the technology that’s responsible for most of this disruption, as it’s the most powerful branch of artificial intelligence. According to Oxford, it allows machines to learn from data and mimic some of the things that humans can do. Read more

August 15, 2016

5 Technologies that will exist by 2031

Ciara Stack Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, Mobile, News, STEM, Tech Week, Technology

Looking back at the year 2001, it’s hard to imagine how different the world of technology was and how we have come such a long way in fifteen years.

Global internet usage was at just 5% then, compared to 50% today, and connection speeds were depressingly slow. For those fortunate enough to have internet access, there wasn’t much to do besides email and some very basic services (on poorly designed websites!). Google was merely in idea stages, Amazon was a start-up and YouTube and social media didn’t exist at all yet. Mobile phones were quite common, but weren’t capable of much more than a phone call or text.

So thinking about how far we’ve come since then, are you prepared to see what’s in store for the next fifteen years? According to Forbes.com, here’s 5 tech trends we’ll see by 2031:

August 11, 2016

eReferral System live across the country

Ciara Stack Department of Health, eHealth Ireland Ecosystem, Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI

GPs across the country can now refer patients into every acute hospital electronically, following the completion of phase one of the HSE National eReferral Programme. Over 10,550 eReferrals were received in hospitals in May, up significantly from the 2,289 received in August 2015, when the new process was initiated. Using the e-referral solution, a GP can submit a referral electronically, directly from their practice management system to the hospital in question using the HIQA-approved referral form and immediately receive an acknowledgement confirming receipt. Read more

August 11, 2016

HISI Proud to Sponsor IMSTA eHealth Award

Ciara Stack Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI, News, Technology

HISI (the Health Informatics Society of Ireland) are proud announce that they will be sponsoring the eHealth Award at this years’ IMSTA Awards, taking place on Thursday 6th October 2016 at the Croke Park Conference Centre.

The same award was also sponsored by HISI last year, with the the winner being Beaumont Hospital with its Patient Buddy Transplant Ap.

Patient Buddy is a patient self-management platform for Kidney Transplant patients to take control of their condition. The solution is empowering Kidney Transplant patients through a smartphone application with home monitoring and diagnostics, helping them to improve the lifespan of their Transplant and giving their transplant care team additional data to improve their care.

August 8, 2016

IMSTA announce 2016 Award Categories

Ciara Stack Department of Health, eHealth Ireland Ecosystem, Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI, News

IMSTA have announced the award categories for their annual ceremony, being held on Thursday 6th October 2016 at the Croke Park Conference Centre.

HISI are delighted to sponsor the eHealth/Digital Award again this year. Read more

July 18, 2016

eHealth Ireland elected on the Digital Health Advisory Panel & Features in the top 100 health influencers globally

Ciara Stack Department of Health, eHealth Ireland Ecosystem, Health ICT, Health Technology, HISI, News

HSE Chief Information Officer Richard Corbridge and Chief Clinical Information Officer eHealth Ireland Yvonne Goff have been appointed to the UK and Ireland Digital Health Council for their respective areas.

The CCIO and Health CIO Networks, hosted by Digital Health, have developed into a lively online community of Health IT leaders, focused on collaboration and best practice exchange.

The network comprises a series of several special interest group and overlapping communities (or networks) of interest, the best established of which are the CCIO Network and Health CIO Network. The networks have recently gained substantial support from HSCIC and NHS Englandwho have joined to help grow and engage with the community. Read more

July 6, 2016

eHealth Ireland Ecosystem – From a different perspective

Ciara Stack Department of Health, eHealth Ireland Ecosystem, Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI

Via www.richardcorbridge.com

The eHealth Ireland Eco-System was a year old last week, a great achievement for the team to go from the germ of an idea to the formation of a self-supporting Eco-System that has seen the meeting of many ideas and organisations that have been able to be another hand on the tiller, steering the eHealth Ireland agenda.

As part of the birthday celebration meeting we have invited a different keynote speaker from a background outside of health, Niall Harbison, founder of Lovin’ Dublin, inspired the audience with his vision for an integrated Health system. Niall opened his presentation with a slide stating “The world is changing so fast” he brought the audience through a whistle stop tour of what it means to be in Social and Digital Media today in 2016 with a great emphasis on being mobile first. Read more

July 5, 2016

All Public Hospitals Now Receiving Electronic Referrals

Ciara Stack Department of Health, eHealth Ireland Ecosystem, Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI, News, Technology

GPs across the country can now refer patients into every acute hospital electronically following the completion of phase one of the HSE National eReferral Programme. Over 10,550 eReferrals were received in hospitals in May, up significantly from the 2,289 received in August 2015 when the new process was initiated. Read more

June 30, 2016

The eHealth Ireland Ecosystem Celebrates 12 Months of Progress

Ciara Stack Department of Health, eHealth Ireland Ecosystem, Health ICT, Health IT, Health Technology, HISI, Technology

Over one hundred and sixty delegates met at the Ballsbridge Hotel, Dublin 4 on Wednesday 29^th of June for the fifth eHealth Ireland Ecosystem event which also marked the one year anniversary of the launch of the eHealth Ireland Ecosystem. The Ecosystem has established itself quickly over the last 12 months, bringing together a wide range of stakeholders to generate a high quality set of recommendations for advancing the eHealth Strategy in Ireland. Read more

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