Technology Magazine June 2022 | Page 328

HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE
save lives . Already , 300 older Irish citizens are using the PanPan device in a distributed living lab .
T-Pro ’ s digital dictation solutions have now been adopted in every hospital group in the country , demonstrating a tenfold improvement in productivity , capturing speech in real-time , cutting out time waste and speeding time to treatment .
To be the best , you have to work with the best , and the HSE Digital Transformation team have forged strategic collaborations with ten global leaders , including : Microsoft , Medtronic , Dell , Cisco , Roche , Google and others . Additionally , Curley and his team are working with Enterprise Ireland to create ‘ the first 25 ’ – a portfolio of 25 Irish Digital Health SMEs , such as Health Beacon , Synchrophi and PMP , with whom they have collaborated to bring value to Irish citizens , patients , clinicians and the overall system .
All of these companies have positioned their solutions to help support and accelerate the ‘ Stay Left , Shift Left – 10x ’ agenda . The collaboration with the British Embassy and the UK Department of International Trade has been particularly fruitful , with HSE Digital Transformation working with over 7 UK digital health startups .
Principle-centred leadership across the Irish health ecosystem . According to Curley , Ireland has adopted a principle-centred leadership approach to the Irish Health Service ’ s Digital Transformation Innovation Plan , with the principles being " fundamentally important to the digital transformation ” and having the potential to “ maximise the success of digital transformation in Ireland '.'
Curley and fellow ecosystem colleagues such as John Sheahan ( Blackrock Health ),
Brian Jordan ( Cisco ), Dr Donal Bailey ( Centric Health ), Prof Richard Costello ( RCSI ), Ronan Hurley ( Medtronic ), Maeve McGrath ( Roche ) and patient advocate Gary Boyle convened the Irish Digital Health Leadership Steering Group ( IDHLSG ) to oversee and orchestrate the digital transformation , using an all-of- Ireland and all-of-ecosystem approach . Curley drafted a set of 10 principles that were then reviewed , iterated and agreed upon by the IDHLSG , and then by the broader ecosystem .
Within this approach , there are ten core principles : " The first principle is to leap frog
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