Health 2.0 Ireland Meet-Up
Health and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Our founder, Kerrill, would like to invite you to the next Health 2.0 Meet-Up Wednesday | January 17, 2018 | 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM | Google Offices, Dublin 4
About
Artificial Intelligence is set to transform the Digital Health ecosystem across a variety of fronts including creating and validating novel digital clinical endpoints, empowering the decision making ability of clinicians, profiling patients for particular treatments or trials, distinguishing between sub-types of diseases, developing patient-facing applications and improving clinician workflow. Health2.0 Dublin is bringing together experiences from those working in the field of data science, machine learning and advanced analytics to share their learnings as they move from ideating solutions through to delivery and implementation. At this meetup, we will hear experiences from the Irish ecosystem from across startups engaging with academia to multinationals defining the industry.
Kristian Marthinsen, Verily Ireland (www.verily.com), will talk about how Verily, a Google Alphabet company are working at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare.
Eamonn Costello (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eamonnjcostello/), CEO Patient Mpower, will speak about "Putting the Cart after the horse. Developing clinical data sets and hypotheses before embarking on your machine learning journey." Eamonn will be discussing their experience of working with academia at the SFI Adapt Centre (Prof. Owen Conlan and Dr. Jason Wyse) and engaging governmental supports to embed machine learning into their approach at https://info.patientmpower.com/.
Spyros Kotoulas, IBM Research (https://www.linkedin.com/in/spyros-kotoulas-3ab2b238/), will speak about designing and developing novel digital health solutions and Eoin Carroll, IBM Watson Health (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoincarroll/), will discuss about translating these digital health solutions into practice.
Cathal Collier, Senior PM, The HSE’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathal-collier-73268116/), will speak about the National Renal ICT System. This talk will focus on the overall system implementation, with particular regard to embedding business intelligence components.
Verily and Google Ireland are our hosts for this meetup and we are extremely grateful.
Please RSVP via Meet-Up by clicking below. There is currently a waiting list, however, spaces may become available before Wednesday.
Want to know more about Health 2.0?
kerrill@megsupporttools.com | 087 394 9516
Welcome to the Team
Welcome Brian Grieco to the team - here we are enjoying the new break-out area in The Digital Hub
'Northside People' 22nd Nov 2017
'Northside People' 22nd November 2017
Irish technology and leading European hospital show how a smart hospital can reduce hospital infections
We are proud to be involved with this project, along with SureWash (Ireland).
Efforts to combat hospital “super bugs” highlighted during World Antibiotic Awareness Week
Two Irish medical technology companies, SureWash and MEG Support Tools, have collaborated with the global hand hygiene company GOJO and one of the leading cancer hospitals in the UK, The Christie in Manchester, to demonstrate how “smart hospital” technology can reduce infections without the need for lots of extra personnel. A recent outbreak of CPE (carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae) in Irish hospitals indicated the seriousness of this issue, with a mortality rate of 40-50% recorded among infected patients.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) say that good hand hygiene can prevent up to 50% of infections in hospitals. Preventing infections is critical as these so called “super bugs” are resistant to antibiotics and have a high mortality rate.
Speaking at the start of World Antibiotic Awareness Week, Kerrill Thornhill of MEG Support Tools said; “A multimodal approach to improving hygiene standards is critical in combating hospital acquired infections and the reliance on antibiotics. We are working with SureWash to reduce rates of infection and improve the lives of people across the healthcare system.”
The WHO provide guidelines on when to do hand hygiene (the 5 moments) and on how to do hand hygiene (the 6 poses). But validated training and auditing of these guidelines is very resource intensive and sometimes overlooked. The research carried out was published by the American Journal of Infection Control. Results indicated that integrated digital tools can provide both rich data and novel tools that both measure impact and provide feedback to support the implementation of multimodal hand hygiene campaigns.
The infection control team in the Christie Hospital describe how live data from the MEG audit app, the SureWash interactive training kiosk and GOJO’s SMARTLINK™ dispenser system was combined to create a live data dashboard to facilitate better infection risk management. Analytics were run on the live data to provide actionable feedback to both staff and patients if the standards of hand hygiene practice were slipping.
Patients and their families have a key role to play in infection prevention. However, there are few if any resources available to training patients in clinical infection prevention. During the study, patients were encouraged to learn about hand hygiene using gesture recognition and camera based algorithm technology which teaches them correct hand hygiene technique – 70% of the training episodes were by patients helping them to maintain infection control for wound care post-discharge.
At the annual Infection Prevention Society award in Manchester in September, SureWash & MEG Support Tools also received industry awards voted on by delegates from hospitals across the UK and Ireland.
For more information or interviews, please contact:
SureWash / Glanta Ltd: Dr. Gerry Lacey, info@surewash.com, +353 87 2396567
MEG Support Tools: Kerrill Thornhill, info@megsupporttools.com, +353 87 9349516
Video Link: https://youtu.be/DJsYRstYTjs
Link to research paper: http://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(17)31048-9/fulltext
About Us:
MEG Support Tools
MEG Support Tools enables frontline medical workers to spend more time with patients and less time with administrative workloads by creating mobile first, paperless tools that promote access to information, antimicrobial stewardship and improved reporting in hospitals.
SureWash
SureWash uses camera based vision systems to teach proper hand hygiene technique. By taking learning out of the classroom and direct to where it is needed most, the units or wards, SureWash can help reduce training costs whilst not interrupting workflows. SureWash systems come with a full analytic and reporting suite giving hospitals the tools they need to manage their infection control risk and achieve regulatory compliance.