HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE
Michael Sugrue , who is pioneering data-driven approaches to improving surgical outcomes , gives the IDHLSG real clinical credibility .
Recognising that the nursing community is the backbone of the healthcare system , the IDHLSG vice chair for nursing is Karen Kelly , an advanced nurse practitioner who modified a remote respiratory monitoring system into a heart failure remote monitoring system with outstanding results . Karen is also pioneering the introduction of the 10x Butterfly mobile ultrasound system into Ireland . Having respected leaders in the IDHSLG who buy into the economy of mutuality and value people and purpose as much as profit is creating very positive momentum and early promising results .
Transforming Irish healthcare with digitalisation leading the charge Martin Curley is professor of innovation at Maynooth University , chair of the Irish Digital Health Leadership Steering Group and the director of digital transformation and open innovation at the HSE . Prior to joining HSE , Curley cut his digital teeth as vice president of Intel between 2009 and 2016 , before bolstering his credentials by serving as senior vice president at MasterCard for a year , until 2018 . According to Curley , he switched gears and put his skills to use in the healthcare industry to “ transform the Irish healthcare system using digital ".
" I firmly believe we can do it ," Curley says . " Together with other leaders , we have been able to mobilise a national movement around radical digital transformation with tech , medtech , pharma , clinicians , patients and academics . We now have more than 50 living labs across the country . I ' ve also written a book called Open Innovation 2.0 , The New Mode of Digital Innovation for Prosperity and Sustainability , which discusses how to drive a structural change in industry using digital technology and an exponential innovation methodology .
" And the net impact of applying the method in the book is we ' re getting multiplicative and exponential outcomes rather than additive outcomes where we are seeing 10X better outcomes , 10X lower cost , and 10X higher volume . [ Some people have called ] this Curley ' s law . I ' m not sure how I feel about that , but I ' ve [ been told to ] just go with it ."
One of these goals set to help Curley reform Ireland ' s healthcare system is to bring hospital services into homes via tech . Stay Left is about keeping well people well in their home or , if you happen to have a chronic condition or need rehab , the
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