The Health Service Executive's Digital Academy is collaborating with medtech companies and start-ups to provide agile solutions to Covid-19 problems faced in clinical settings. Examples include pulse oximeters integrated with applications that can be remotely monitored for oxygen depletion in patients (thereby requiring hospital admission) and working with roboticists to develop sterilisation robots using UV wavelengths that can kill Covid19 but have sensory reaction when humans enter its…
Country: Ireland
A new online portal was built and developed in four days to allow General Practitioners and healthcare providers to treat people remotely to help protect patients and healthcare workers.
Be On Call for Ireland is an initiative of the Health Service Executive. It seeks to bring medically and clinically trained individuals and experienced support staff back into the health service to help out during the crisis. Over 60,000 people have applied to volunteer.
Online and mobile dashboard containing data regarding cases of Covid-19 in Ireland
The Public Service Temporary Assignment Scheme is a whole-of-Government approach to tackling shortages of staff in key areas. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform issued a circular (instrument in administrative law) which allows for thousands of staff to be temporarily assigned from anywhere in the public service to areas requiring manpower (e.g. contact tracing, unemployment supports, business support schemes etc.) The Public Appointments Service has built a digital platform to…
The Covid-19 rapid response innovation fund is an agile and adaptive initiative to support development of innovative solutions (including STEM-based, social/behavioural science) that can have rapid demonstrable impact on the current COVID-19 crisis in Ireland.
The Irish Tax Authorities are operating a Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme. The scheme, enables employees, whose employers are affected by the pandemic, to receive significant supports directly from their employer through their payroll system. The scheme is expected to last 12 weeks from 26 March 2020.
Originally conceived as a planning tool, HeritageMaps.ie is a user-driven, web-based mapviewer focusing on the built, cultural and natural heritage around Ireland and offshore. Its potential for use by the general public was quickly realised and users can now access 700+ up-to-date heritage datasets in map-form, originally provided across many Govt. platforms. HeritageMaps.ie a free ‘one-stop-shop’ for heritage data and acts as a discovery portal, providing direct links to promote research.
BPA or technology-enabled automation of rules based business processes was identified as an opportunity to streamline the operational business of the Organisation, to achieve simplicity, improve service delivery and reduce costs. The innovation engages BPA to digitally transform workflows from conventional data manipulation and record-keeping functions, to efficient automated systems. BPA has benefitted front line staff, where the burden of processes has transferred from humans to technology.
AELOUS is a mid-altitude airborne maritime sensor platform which significantly increases the operating surveillance range by increasing the elevation of the monitoring systems. The Aeolus platform can effectively operate at 450m above the ship – increasing the surveillance area in excess of 11 times of what can be monitored with existing solutions. The platform can be used with multiple lifting systems and can be deployed for many hours. It is being trialled by Naval and Search&Rescue…