25/07/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 25/07/2024 10:02
The second International Digital Health Summer School, held at Maynooth University in June, has selected five notable digital health technologies which it believes can drive radical transformation of healthcare and has invited them to present at the United Nations (UN).
The Summer School, which was organised by MU's Innovation Value Institute (IVI), focused on the transition to a new kind of wellness and health system, empowered by digital technologies. Many new and emerging digital health technologies, designed to keep people out of emergency and elective care and deliver significant benefits in the healthcare sector, presented at the event.
Of these, five transformative solutions were selected and the organisations involved have now been invited to demonstrate and discuss their solutions at the 4th Digital Health Symposium at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which takes place in New York on Sept 24-26 and is hosted by MU's IVI.
The five technologies include:
The selected technologies all offer solutions which, when proactively applied to health, can deliver 10X benefits often across the health sector, including better care, lower cost, better experience, quality of life and sustainability.
Prof Martin Curley, Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at MU's IVI, said: "Healthcare challenges globally cannot be fixed with marginal gains. They need technologies and solutions that deliver 10X improvements and shift away from emergency and elective treatment into preventative and proactive care."