Health Development Center Ireland call 2020 winners

Health Innovation Hub Ireland have actually revealed their 2020 winners in their call for ingenious ideas from business, start-ups, and SME’s.

The 2020 winners of Health Innovation Hub Ireland’s call for ingenious concepts from business, start-ups, and SMEs have been revealed.

The nationwide call which involved a nationwide health innovation competition is directed at companies who have an ingenious product, service or service that are at pre-commercial or late development stage with the potential to considerably affect Irish health care.

The call is particularly relevant this year as the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for innovation in healthcare.

In addition, based upon HSE input, HIHI likewise released a focussed call for the prevention, early diagnosis, and self-management of persistent health problem consisting of heart disease, respiratory disease, and diabetes.

This year there has actually been a significant surge in companies developing health services that reflect global health trends and a specific focus on digital and telehealth solutions is emerging.

Health Innovation Center Ireland awards 2020 winners

Forty-eight cutting edge innovators contended for the opportunity to get the distinct HIHI development pathway for companies seeking pilot or recognition research studies.

Acting as a broker HIHI matches companies with pertinent clinical teams, supervises a research study of each item in an Irish scientific setting, and delivers a result report.

This going forward, supports the adoption of items in national and global markets, boosts circulation opportunities, and helps in the ongoing advancement for those companies.

HIHI is a joint initiative of the Department of Health and the Department of Company Enterprise and Development.Our activity

is enhanced through the support of Enterprise Ireland and the HSE. HIHI offers business the chance for pilot research studies and offers the health service with access to innovative products, services, and devices.

Considering that it was introduced in September 2016, HIHI has managed 300 business engagements, 193 of these have resulted in follow-up assistance activities and 60 of these have turned into active projects within the Irish health care system.

HIHI likewise just recently triaged almost 200 ingenious health care options through its Covid-19 Innovation Website.

Irish business are establishing ingenious healthcare services for clients in the house and globally, by supporting these companies through HIHI, we are strengthening our economy while improving client care.

This year’s final of the HIHI 2020 Health Innovation Competitors represented the conclusion of an across the country search to determine up and coming healthcare business with the possible to scale their service.

Twenty-three made it through to our dragon’s den style pitch panels which included professionals from HSE, Enterprise Ireland, HRB, SFI, CRCI, Department of Service, Business and Development, Department of Health, clinicians, and market.

There were 15 supreme winners with strong competition among this year’s entries, 5 of these winners address the theme of the focussed call- ‘supporting self-management of chronic health problem’.

A number of these services utilize innovation to make it possible for care in the community, which(in the existing pandemic) is now a need.

HIHI will now match the winning business with pertinent scientific groups, supervising a research study of each item in an Irish scientific setting.

These pilot and clinical validation research studies provide important testbeds to support Irish business going to market and can identify any additional refinements in the development cycle.

The aim is to ultimately ensure that the best Irish health care options are provided to patients.

To learn more on this get in touch via the link https://hih.ie/engage/health-innovations-2020/

Or get in contact with.ie,

More about Irish Tech News and Service Display here

FYI the ROI for you is => > Irish Tech News now gets over 1.5 million monthly views, and as much as 900k monthly special visitors, from over 160 countries. We have over 860,000 pertinent followers on Twitter on our various accounts & & were just recently referred to as Ireland’s leading online tech news website and Ireland’s answer to TechCrunch, so we can provide you a good audience!

Since introducing desktop notifications a short time back, which notify readers straight in their web browser of new articles being released, over 50,000 people have actually now signed up to receive them guaranteeing they are immediately maintained to date on all our newest material. Desktop notifications provide a special method of serving material straight to verified readers and bypass the concern of material getting lost in people’s crowded news feeds.

Drop us a line if you wish to be featured, visitor post, suggest a possible interview, or simply let us understand what you would like to see more of in our future articles. We’re constantly available to brand-new and intriguing recommendations for useful and different short articles. Contact us, by e-mail, twitter or whatever social media works for you and hopefully we can share your story too and reach our worldwide audience. We are nimble, responsive, quick and talented, we anticipate working with you!

Irish Tech News

If you would like to have your business featured in the Irish Tech News Business Showcase, get in contact with us at or on Twitter: @SimonCocking