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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 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,...
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...
What rule would you break to deliver healthcare value? I joined the HSE in 2002 from a highly-technical background having worked as a software buyer for the DCC Group and Production Design Technician for General Motors. I had a real love for technology. I started as a...
SmartHealth catches up with InterSystems’ John Kelly to find out more about how InterSystems is helping to digitally transform health and care in Ireland The HSE recently announced signing a Framework Agreement with InterSystems for a Clinical Management System for...
