Overview
Digital health is supporting health care professionals by offering insights with data. From the data you get insights, actions, real-world-evidence and feedback. With data from connected devices HCPs can measure outcomes, personalise healthcare and better connect with patients in multiple care settings.
Case Studies
The future of medicine / Professor Derek O'Keeffe
Derek O’Keeffe, NUI Galway Professor of Medical Device Technology and Consultant Physician at University Hospital Galway
“With medical problems, there can be digital solutions… Combining clinical skills with digital and engineering skills is a good way forward for the industry. It creates patient-focused solutions by applying problem-solving competencies within healthcare.” One of these solutions is the ‘JediGlove’ – a new piece of technology for the visually impaired which sends micro-vibrations through the users’ fingers and thumb proportional to an object's distance. This helps them sense obstacles in their path.
Getting ahead with digital / Professor Richard Costello
Professor Richard Costello, Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine at Beaumont Hospital Dublin and Professor of Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
“Digital health is becoming huge. There’s still a long way to go, but the healthcare system needs to be at the forefront in terms of digitising processes like the banking or legal industries have... The introduction of better systems to integrate and visualise large amounts of complex data may mean a more personal patient-physician experience.”
Virtual care for heart failure / Professor Ken McDonald
Professor Ken McDonald, Consultant Cardiologist and Medical Director of the Heart Failure Unit at St Vincent's University Hospital
“While face-to-face healthcare is still necessary, I think several health encounters could be changed to an eHealth or virtual platform, this will have important allied benefits, reducing the need to travel to hospital or clinic settings.” “Preventing a disease is always a better alternative than waiting for it to develop. Another theme of our research has been to develop new ways of delivering care. Our Virtual Consultation is one aspect of that. This has led us to link-up with digital health and medtech companies.