Innovate Well being at Tallaght College Hospital (TUH) in Dublin has secured funding of greater than €300,000 for 4 initiatives, together with an app for sufferers with persistent pancreatitis.
A part of the funding from the Irish Well being Service Govt’s (HSE) Spark Affect innovation fund will likely be used to hold out a digitally enabled evaluate of the Good CP app and develop it additional for sufferers.
Analysis by TUH has proven that Eire has among the many highest numbers in Europe of these affected by persistent pancreatitis.
The situation is marked by long-term irritation of the pancreas, inflicting gastrointestinal signs, weight reduction and malnutrition, and resulting in progressive harm over time.
The Good CP app for sufferers with persistent pancreatitis goals to empower sufferers to take management of their situation by giving sufferers reminders, offering instructional content material and permitting them to flag worsening signs in order that appropriate interventions could be utilized earlier.
It’s one in every of 4 initiatives that may share the funding together with an built-in hand and wrist clinic, a personalised medicines method for sufferers prone to stroke, and a prehabilitation programme for sufferers present process elective surgical procedure.
Lucy Nugent, chief government at TUH, stated: “There was exponential progress within the tradition and consciousness of innovation in TUH in recent times which is clear from the calibre of initiatives awarded funding.
“This could not be potential with out the continued assist from funders and different teams of pros each inner and exterior to our hospital.
“Their assist is way appreciated as all of us attempt to discover higher methods to deal with and take care of our sufferers. The mission of Innovate Well being at TUH continues to be that we innovate as a result of lives depend upon it”.
In Could 2024, the HSE launched a framework setting out how you can digitally rework well being companies within the nation, together with plans to roll out a affected person app and nationwide shared care document.
In the meantime, Youngsters’s Well being Eire has introduced that it’s working with knowledge know-how supplier InterSystems to implement an interoperability platform on the new digital youngsters’s hospital in Dublin, which is at present underneath building.
