The second International Digital Health Summer School, held at Maynooth University in June, has selected five notable digital health technologies which it believes can drive radical transformation of healthcare and has invited them to present at the United Nations (UN).
The Summer School, which was organised by MU’s Innovation Value Institute (IVI), focused on the transition to a new kind of wellness and health system, empowered by digital technologies. Many new and emerging digital health technologies, designed to keep people out of emergency and elective care and deliver significant benefits in the healthcare sector, presented at the event.
Of these, five transformative solutions were selected and the organisations involved have now been invited to demonstrate and discuss their solutions at the 4th Digital Health Symposium at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which takes place in New York on Sept 24-26 and is hosted by MU’s IVI.
The five technologies include:
- MyoVista, a resting 12-lead ECG (electrocardiogram) device designed to provide AI-enabled diagnostic information related to cardiac dysfunction which has traditionally only been available through the use of cardiac imaging. MyoVista enables much earlier heart screening in community or front-line healthcare settings, providing 10X benefits through earlier diagnosis, health system cost savings and lives saved
- Seismofit, a new portable VO2 Max measurement device, developed at Aalborg University in Denmark, which delivers a revolution in cardiovascular fitness using an AI-guided 10X approach. VO2 Max is an extraordinary measure of wellness but previously required individuals to visit a testing lab and to exert themselves on a treadmill
- OpenEMR digital health platform uses OpenEMR, the world’s most popular open source electronic health record, as its foundation
- KEWS300, a software product which is deployed in hospital settings at point-of-care with its principal function to make Patient Observation Records a central element within the Health Information System, informing accurate, responsive clinical care and supporting better patient outcomes
- Digicare, a paperless medication system which digitises medication management from prescription to administration, reducing paperwork and errors. It enhances efficiency, improves patient safety, and aligns with healthcare systems goals for a modernised, sustainable approach to medication management, benefiting both patients and healthcare providers
The selected technologies all offer solutions which, when proactively applied to health, can deliver 10X benefits often across the health sector, including better care, lower cost, better experience, quality of life and sustainability.
Prof Martin Curley, Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at MU’s IVI, said: “Healthcare challenges globally cannot be fixed with marginal gains. They need technologies and solutions that deliver 10X improvements and shift away from emergency and elective treatment into preventative and proactive care.”