Len Marshall, PhD, Head of Healthcare Development, Roche Diagnostics Ireland Len leads the Healthcare Development team at Roche Ireland, where the focus is on shaping healthcare through innovation and partnership with the healthcare systems in Ireland and across Europe. He has a particular interest in the developing areas [...]
Jama Nateqi, Founder & CEO of Symptoma.com In Austria the current situation is serious: due to the steadily increasing numbers of people testing positive for Coronavirus, Austria went into another “hard” lockdown for three weeks straight, starting at the end of November 2020. All stores and service companies [...]
Colin Sheena - Commercial Representative at the Embassy of Israel in Dublin Those familiar with the bilateral relations between Israel and Ireland recognise the numerous similarities that exist between the countries. Both have small populations, and transitioned from agrarian to hi-tech economies, both have strong diaspora [...]
Padraic Gibson - Clinical Director, The OCD Clinic & The Bateson Clinic In South America there is an ant population known as the ‘army ant’. This is one of the few ants that have no natural nest. Wandering aimlessly around the southern parts of the continent, this creature [...]
Liam Murphy - Sales Manager, T Pro Telehealth solutions are revolutionising how patients manage their healthcare and share information with medical professionals. For example, a patient may wear a device into which they can enter their vital signs, or have it collected through blood pressure readers, pulse oximeters, [...]
Neil Griffiths - Managing Director TeleTracking At the time of writing, as we enter the 8th month since the COVID-19 pandemic struck; 6th months since the first lockdown; and having seen acute health services under unprecedented and immeasurable pressure, we have been able to reflect on some of [...]
Amanda Torrens - CEO Brindley Healthcare As I celebrated the arrival of 2020 on New Year’s Eve with friends and family, I was looking forward to what I hoped was going to be a very rewarding year for all at Brindley Healthcare, however the storm clouds of Covid-19 [...]
David Neville - CEO Future Health Summit & Investnet At Investnet we welcome the new Government “Recovery and Resilience Roadmap” published yesterday September 15th. This means we can REOPEN our business, which has been devastated since March, and start planning our calendar for rest of 2020 [...]
Andrew Kennedy - Communications Officer, Patient Advocacy Service (PAS) The Patient Advocacy Service (PAS) was launched in November 2019 by then Minister for Health Simon Harris, just a few months before the Covid -19 pandemic began. The independent, free and confidential service, commissioned by the National Patient Safety [...]
Professor Ciarán O’Boyle - Director, RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health It has always seemed to me that we go through life largely unaware of the defining impact of our pre-suppositions on our attitudes, beliefs, and actions. The philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn in his book “The [...]
Gary Cokins, Founder and CEO: Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC About Gary Cokins (Cornell University BS industrial engineering/operations research, 1971; Northwestern University Kellogg MBA 1974) is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC at www.garycokins.com in Cary, North Carolina USA. His career included being a management consultant with Deloitte, [...]
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Prof. Michael Mainelli - Executive Chairman of the Z/Yen Group Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI (Hon) FBCS, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group, is a qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin. Michael gained his PhD at the London School of Economics where [...]
Michael Harty, Director & Founder, Home Care Plus and Home Care Direct Before the COVID 19 crisis unfolded, the Department of Health were planning the introduction of regulation and a Statutory right to home care. The hope is that this crisis will just reinforce the need to bring [...]
Hazel Chappell, Founder/President/Digitial Transformation Healthcare Consultant/Health2047 Associate/Business Advisor – DellMed CoLab I’m now a #cybersister! Not just a woman in cybersecurity or a cyberwoman but part of a cybersecurity family of females whose passion is in healthcare. I have a specific appetite in healthcare for deep [...]
John Adair, Leadership Theorist and best-selling Author Understanding leadership means focus upon the situation. Taken to extremes, this school declares there is no such thing as a born leader: it all depends upon the situation. Some situations will evoke leadership from one person, others will bring it out [...]
David Neville, CEO Future Health Summit & Investnet As the Covid-19 public health emergency enters what might be its most critical phase so far it is nearing time to consider how the learning emerging from it can best be gathered, assessed, discussed and acted on. The [...]
Peter Carter OBE, Chairman St. Andrews Charity, Northampton, England Frequently when discussing resilience, the emphasis is on individual resilience, however a key characteristic of working in the health service is teamwork. In these taxing times it’s worth reflecting on how teams, that are under huge pressure, work and [...]
Paul Corrigan MBE, Management Consultant & Executive Coach I want to discuss whether a number of very important changes, currently taking place with the delivery of NHS services, will continue after the crisis is over. Or will we return to the way things were before? Where does NHS [...]
Dr. Richard Lee Kin, Periodontist "There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen." — Lenin As I write, dentists across Ireland are either closed or open for emergencies only and for those brave dentists that are - I have my reservations as to [...]
Alastair Campbell, Writer, Communicator, Strategist, Speaker and TV Analyst Good morning fellow isolators … after this week’s announcement, it looks like we really are in it all together now. I’ve pretty much been in self-isolation since Sport Relief eleven days ago, not because of symptoms but because by [...]
Professor Tim Evans, Professor of Business and Political Economy, Middlesex University London The UK government is world-class when it comes to contingency planning and emergencies. Ministers, civil servants and all manner of official experts regularly rehearse and practice for a wide range of disasters and incidents. Across the [...]
Ronan Byrne, Commercial Manager, Dualtron The health and wellbeing of patients is of utmost importance, and should we have a family member or friend in hospital, we all want to know that they are being looked after. We want to be assured that they are getting the right [...]
Beth Meid, Director of Global Business AMD The world’s population is not only growing, but also growing older! The number of 80+ age group is growing four times faster than any other age group. 80% of this age group live with incontinence. How can we, as product manufacturers, [...]
Aisling Gannon, Partner, Head of Healthcare, Eversheds Sutherland Tony McGovern, Partner, Head of Life Sciences, Eversheds Sutherland Ireland consistently ranks amongst the best countries in the world to invest in and do business. This is particularly true of the health and life sciences sector. Globally, the health [...]
Fiona Claridge, Country Lead Ireland, Own The Room Daniel was brilliant. A data analyst, he had swiftly proven himself to be a keen thinker who could quickly find patterns amidst rows of data. There was just one problem. Whenever he got up in front of colleagues from other [...]
Eithne Vaughan Witts, Principal Recruitment Consultant – Healthcare & Medical, FRS Recruitment Overview of Emergency Medicine in Ireland Emergency Medicine in Ireland today is delivered by specialists in Emergency Medicine as well as NCHD’s, both within and outside formal specialist training programmes. These doctors work in both Emergency [...]
Sean Gulliford, Head of Connected Devices, Gemserv IMAGINE a world in which you never run out of milk because your fridge reorders it for you automatically or where don’t have to water the garden because your smart sprinkler assesses the weather and switches itself on when needed. That [...]
Authors: Deirdre Foley Woods, Healthcare Strategy & Planning, ETL Pollie Boyle, Associate Director, ETL Jack Goodall, Consultant, ETL The law of gravity tells us that what goes up must come down, except perhaps in the case of space standards in new hospitals which appear to have achieved escape [...]
Dr. Tanya Mulcahy, National Manager, Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI) Do this with your kids at the dinner table- ask them to identify one thing in life that they need, something that could be better if they had a way to do it, take note of [...]
Deb Sutton, VP, Client Support, TeleTracking International Global economic and political turmoil and the climate change crisis may dominate headlines but arguably the biggest threat to global wellbeing is the state of our health care services. In the UK, 9.2% of all NHS posts are vacant, while the [...]
Dennis Barry, Managing Director & Owner, MedCode Healthcare Service I was having my morning coffee and reading the most topical news pieces and once again Vaping and its related illnesses are prominent. EVALI or “e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury” has fast become the most topical and [...]
Ahmed Shahrabani, Co-Founder, Locum’s Nest Five years ago, on the medical wards of St Helier Hospital in South London each week played out like clockwork. Come Friday, the rota manager would come down to the wards and ask me, Nick, Paddy and the rest of the doctors on [...]
Jason McLaughlin, Ortus Cloud Solutions, National Sales Manager At Ortus Managed IT & Cloud we work with many clients within the Healthcare sector, including the top two homecare providers in Ireland. We understand that there is a very real need to give nurses, physicians and care managers a [...]
Kelan Daly, KPMG, Healthcare Consulting Director We all know that health systems around the world face intense pressure from escalating demand. Hospital emergency departments can vouch for this. We also know that there is evidence to suggest that many of these patients could be treated and cared for [...]
Dave O’ Shaughnessy, Avaya, Healthcare Solutions Leader EMEA & APAC https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveoshaughnessy/ I’m now getting in trouble with my 13yo daughter, and it’s nothing to do with my Dad-Dancing or truly epic Dad-Jokes (I got fired from my lawn maintenance job - I was just not cutting it). It [...]
Catapulting a new service into the Irish Healthcare Sector – The roller -coaster first year Mary Jones, Founder & Managing Director, Mobile Medical Diagnostics I was recently asked if I would I do it all again, and in truth I know I would in a heartbeat. The last [...]
Maria O’ Loughlin, Assistant National Director Organisational Digital Change, Health Business Services, HSE Would it surprise or shock you to learn, that I cried talking about a sewing box in front of 37 people, most of whom I only met 20 minutes before, well it surprised me! But more [...]
Tony Heffernan, Founder BUMBLEance Children's Ambulance & Saoirse Foundation The constant drive to improve performance, processes and deliver greater efficiencies is a common trend across all previous posts of this blog. We all appreciate the pace that which healthcare is ever-changing, the constant need to embrace new technology, big data, [...]
Greg Martin, MD, MPH, MBA The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is set to transform almost every aspect of healthcare and will translate into improvements in health outcomes that will be akin to the discovery of penicillin. However, as we hurtle toward this promised utopia with heart-thumping enthusiasm, it [...]
David Neville, CEO & Founder of Future Health Summit and Investnet limited This week to celebrate 3 months of our Future Health Summit Blog I thought I’d give you an update on the event itself. Firstly, though I’d like to thank all our contributors so far, as we’ve had fantastic [...]
James Sheehan, Orthopaedic surgeon, engineer, businessman and entrepreneur Whenever we appear to have a crisis in healthcare, and politicians appear under pressure, they commission yet another health report. The latest report is Sláintecare, drawn up by 14 representatives of all the major political parties. No country to date has [...]
Dr. Anne Jones, CEO at Genomics Medicine Ireland Group While Ireland has lagged behind other developed countries when it comes to genomics medicine, we have an opportunity to leapfrog other initiatives and become a leading healthcare provider in precision medicine with the right investment and partnership between public and private [...]
Dr Itziar Canamasas, Managing Director, Bayer Ltd and Chair of the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association’s (IPHA’s) Clinical Research Exchange Group Clinical trials give patients access to sometimes life-saving trials; they help set the standard of care for patients and they are also vital for boosting innovation; just three of the [...]
Ogie Sheehy, Founder & CEO ViClarity As healthcare continues to change, healthcare providers face a constant struggle to ensure quality improvement programmes are in place and are working sufficiently. It is estimated that hospitals must meet 341 healthcare compliance requirements annually. While these regulatory requirements are in place to ensure [...]
Peter Carter, Interim Chair North Middlesex Hospitals, former general secretary & CEO Royal College of Nursing The phenomena of a shortage of nurses in the National Health Service (NHS) of the UK are not new. In 1948 the year the NHS came into being there was funding for 85,000 nurses [...]
Tony Ryan, Co-founder & CEO, MedVault Clinical staff today are spending more and more time on data entry and repetitive administrative work than ever before. This is not what doctors had in mind when they first started training and it is most certainly not the optimal state of affairs for [...]
Rebecca Patterson, Director of Global Marketing, iheed We have come a long way since 1858 when the University of London offered the first distance education degree. There are now more than 400,000 students studying remotely in the UK alone. And yet there are the naysayers! Despite the blatant time-poor world [...]
Eamonn Fitzgerald, CEO, Hermitage Medical Clinic Hermitage Medical Clinic have been sponsoring the Innovator Award at the annual Future Health Summit for the last 5 years. HMC has firmly established itself as a centre of excellence and innovation and a valuable addition to Ireland’s healthcare infrastructure, with an ethos embedded [...]
PJ Moloney, Managing Director, P4ML, Cork Precision medicine in ‘Newborns’ requires precision diagnostics early on a change of the current care paradigm. According to the World Health Organization 1 in 6 women develop complications that threaten her or her baby’s life. Every 2 minutes a mother dies from complications related [...]
Tim Evans, Professor of Business and Political Economy, Middlesex University London The National Health Service is loved across the UK and far beyond. Free at the point of delivery and founded by Aneuran Bevan in 1948, he envisaged a future in which the NHS would cost less once the [...]
The Future Health Summit 2019 took place on May 20th-21st at the RDS in Dublin. Once again it was my great pleasure to welcome over 400 healthcare leaders and decision makers, both international and domestic who attended this established annual event. With a speaker line up featuring over 30 contributors [...]
