Health Minister Edwin Poots has launched two new hospital IT systems which will significantly improve patients’ health and save lives through the appropriate use of medications, including antibiotics. Developed by the Pharmacy and Medicines Management Department in the Northern Trust, the two systems are the Live Automated Microbiology Pharmacy Surveillance System (LAMPS) and the Electronic Medicines Reconciliation System (EMRS).
Read more ...The Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has launched a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition to stimulate the development of innovative technology solutions to optimise patient health and social care outcomes through improved medicines adherence.
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A report of a workshop: On 6th December 2013 HSC Innovations in conjunction with the Western Health and Social Care Trust (WHSCT) Research and Development Office delivered a workshop on “Support for Ideas to Improve Patient Care” for members of staff in the South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen.
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The CONNECT programme at the Northern Ireland Science Park has announced that INVENT 2014, the successor to the £25k Awards, is now open for applications. Here’s the brief from NISP CONNECT. For over 400 years Northern Ireland innovation has been changing the world; the tractor, mobile defibrillators, whiskey distilling, even chocolate. What are the innovations from today that will be remembered 100 years from now?
Read more ...The patent application filed by Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to protect its rapid meningitis diagnostic has been granted in the USA. Granted patent US8465927 – Detection of Neisseria meningitidis by loop mediated isothermal amplification – is licensed exclusively to HiberGene Diagnostics Ltd, a rapid molecular diagnostics company, for its meningococcal diagnostic.
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On 6th December 2013 HSC Innovations in conjunction with the WHSCT Research and Development Office and the Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre (C-TRIC) will deliver a workshop at South West Acute Hospital on “Support for Ideas to Improve Patient Care” for members of staff in the Western Health and Social Care Trust.
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On 18th June 2013 HSC Innovations in conjunction with Invest NI and the UK Intellectual Property Office delivered a workshop on ‘Protecting and Exploiting Intellectual Property in Healthcare’. There were over 60 delegates from health sector companies, clinicians and researchers from throughout Northern Ireland who participated in the interactive workshop to learn how best to protect and exploit their Intellectual Assets. This is a report of the event.
Read more ...The Biomedical Catalyst scheme, a joint programme of the Technology Strategy Board and Medical Research Council, continues to seek applications from either SMEs or researchers. Round 4 is now open.
Read more ...Three awards for students and researchers working in medical engineering are again open for entries.
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An initiative emerging from the Western Health and Social Care Trust has reached the final stage of the £25k Awards administered by the Northern Ireland Science Park’s CONNECT programme. Digitease is based around outcomes from research and development to measure stiffness and lack of movement in human joints.
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