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MedTech Responses

Innovative response

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 vicinity.

Specific issues addressed and anticipated impact

Creating a respository of solutions that can be accessed by healthcare bodies to solve immediate problems using healthcare market providers,

Organisations/institutions involved

Health Innovation Hub Ireland, Enterprise Ireland

Level(s) of government:
  • National/Federal government

Issues being addressed:

  • Patient care
  • MedTech to solve clinical problems

Response contact:

[email protected]

Date Submitted:

8 April 2020