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Blind Date:
Patients & their views on
Innovation in Health
Countdown:
Amplifying Innovation in
eHealth through Academic
Partnership
Moderated by Derick Mitchell
Moderated by Neil O’Hare
CEO IPPOSI, Irish Platform for Patient
Organsiations, Science & Industry
Director of Informatics, St James’s Hospital
Panelists include:
Panellists include:
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Niamh Malone, CEO & Founder of
BraineyApp .
Anne Lawlor, Chairperson, 22q11 Ireland
Support Group .
Michelle Long, member of the D1 Now
Young adult panel in Galway.
Patients are the experts
in their own condition.
No matter how good the
technology is, it’s people
who make it important.
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Chaired by Derick Mitchell, this panel was a
platform for those in attendance to ask questions to
patients and for patients to provide feedback about
innovations they have pioneered or partnered with.
The aim was to promote a deeper understanding
of patient involvement with health services and to
provide a more transparent conversation.
Three panellists with a wide range of personal
experiences shared valuable knowledge with several
key messages becoming very clear: patients’ needs
should drive technology innovation in health care
and that no matter how good technology is, the
people are who make it important. Finally the key
takeaway everyone should always keep in mind was
‘Open discussion with patients is necessary for a
robust conversation about health services. ‘
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The panel discussed the various ways in which
digital health innovation can be supported by
academics partnering with clinical and industry
stakeholders. Specifically, how digital health
innovations require rigorous research from a multi-
disciplinary perspective to support clinical, patient
and industry partners in identifying the best ways
in which to implement sustainable digital health in
Ireland.
The panellist’s own research focuses on issues as
diverse as health informatics; big data analytics,
person-centred change management and patient-
centred design. With this experience & knowledge
academic partners can act as a trusted third party
in evaluating impact and ensuring rigour in digital
health implementations.
Pamela Hussey, lecturer in Nursing and Health
Informatics in the School of Nursing and Human
Sciences (SNHS) DCU.
Maria Quinlan, Research Lead at the Applied
Research for Connected Health (ARCH) centre at
the University College Dublin.
Dr Ciara Heavin, Lecturer/Researcher at Business
Information Systems at Cork University Business
School (CUBS), University College Cork.
Within healthcare there is a
long established tradition of
close collaboration between
clinicians, medical innovators
and academia. We need that
synergy in order to drive
the kinds of deep, nuanced
research into how technology
will fundamentally disrupt
how we currently provide and
receive care.
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