Medical knowledge is doubling every 79 days!Martin Curley, former Intel Vice President, now in charge of the digital transformation of Ireland's health service says we will have the best health service in Europe by 2025. Yes, you read that right. In under 36 months Ireland could go from 80th in the world for its health service to 1st in Europe. He is so confident he has brought Tourism Ireland on board as he sees a massive business opportunity in health tourism. He says that medicine, with the amount of data it produces from patients, is made for digital interrogation, a process that is going to revolutionise day-to-day medicine in a matter of a couple of years. He explains how the 'diagnostic waiting list' can be eliminated in less that a year (yes, you also read that correctly!)He explains what the Irish Digital Health Leadership Steering Group is doing.Using a Medtronic made camera 'pill' that he had in studio, he says that colonoscopies can be done ten or maybe twenty times faster - again eliminating queues. This is already deployed in Tallaght hospital. Using a different technology they have managed to cut the level of hospitalisations of a group of heart patients by 10X as Professor Curley likes to say, so one tenth the number of hospitalisations in other words. He explains how an app called 'Patients know best' works and he explains that 90% of European hospitals DON'T share data with the patient (that owns it) but that will have to change now.His Group now has 50 proof points (live examples) of how digital is revolutionising medical care in Ireland. He talks of the two clinicians in Our Lady of Lourdes hospital who adopted an Irish made piece of tech that has cut bed night numbers by a staggering 170,000. Another Irish made app, 'Balance' can predict in 30" how likely someone vulnerable is likely to fall. Avoiding falling means avoiding hip operations or worse. He was also wearing a smartwatch developed by Wexford based Tunstall that knows when someone falls and intervenes in 20 seconds. Cork based PMD has developed the world's first continuous respiratory rate monitor, respiration being the first vital sign the starts to deteriorate. Another innovative company he references is Bluedrop Medical in Galway that works with diabetics.Find all episodes at www.ThatGreatBusinessShow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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