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"I was one of the first people in Poland who got an insulin pump in 2000. And it completely changed my life," says Dr Kate Gajewska, a diabetes specialist now living in Ireland who herself has diabetes. In the 1980s, she says, the average person with diabetes would...
What do General Motors, Burger King, CNN, Uber and Airbnb all have in common? They were all founded during economic downturns. Uber and Airbnb set up business in the global downturn of 2007-2009. Burger King flipped its first patty in the US post-war recession of...
SmartHealth Partnership AI tools such as ChatGPT have come to great prominence in recent months. But what do tools using technology such as AI and machine learning hold for the healthcare sector, and how can they support its transformation? Dr Joachim Werr, Founder...
What is the biggest challenge to innovation? I think we need to increase access to intellectual expertise; those professionals with experience and connections within the healthcare sector. It will help growing companies navigate the structures and processes involved...
Welcome to the first edition of SmartHealth in 2023. The Hope Issue is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements and successes of those working within the health innovation and medtech arenas here in Ireland, Europe and around the world. Innovation is saving lives....
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...
Pictured above is Neil O’Hare, CIO, Children’s Health Ireland. Pictures by 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 her opening...
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...
