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...
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,...
The need to provide more secure patient care through digital health records has increased rapidly in the wake of Covid-19. Healthcare providers across both the public and private sectors in Ireland are now looking to offer better value delivery to service users....
In Ireland, Lighthouse Psychology, in Co. Waterford's village of Dunmore East, is out on the forefront of using virtual reality to help patients working to overcome anxiety and phobias. Many of us might first have met virtual reality through such worthy uses of time...
We are delighted to publish the summer edition of SmartHealth magazine - The Prevention Issue focusing on stories that gravitate towards a general theme of preventative healthcare. Innovation and technology play an ever-critical role when it comes to creating the most...
Sarah Murphy, Chief Executive Officer of iQuest & Business Post LIVE, launches SmartHealth - the health innovation and medtech platform We are delighted to launch smarthealthnetwork.ie and the the first edition of SmartHealth Magazine. What a challenging period it...
