Health Innovation Week 2017

From: 20 Oct 2017 - 9:45 To: 20 Oct 2017 - 13:00

Health Innovation Week 2017

Health Innovation Week will kick off at UCC with an interactive and exciting session involving healthcare professionals, health IT innovators and digital health researchers.

The event - Unlocking the “Digital Thread” in the Health Management Landscape: Opportunities, Challenges and Next Steps - is hosted by Cork University Business School in collaboration with eHealth Ireland.  

The Digital Health domain has experienced significant growth and is estimated to grow exponentially in value by 2020. This is largely attributable to:

  • The need for disruptive solutions health care costs
  • The increasing demand for personalised medicine 
  • The availability of novel, real-time data streams beyond which we have not experienced to date in the health domain.
This session will explore the opportunities, challenges and next steps associated with electronic health (eHealth) within the health management landscape.
 
Speakers will include:
  • Mr. Richard Corbridge - CIO of the Health Service Executive and eHealth Ireland
  • Prof. Richard Greene - Director of The National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre and Professor of Clinical Obstetrics
  • Dr. PJ Fitzpatrick - CEO of Educate4Health
Date Friday October 20th 2017
Venue Blackstone LaunchPad Creative Zone, Boole Library, UCC
Time 10:00 - 13:00  (Registration at 9.45)
Schedule  Full schedule details
Registration

 Registration for this event is now closed
The event is organised by and in conjucntional with  Dr. Ciara Heavin,
Dr. Yvonne O’ Connor, (MSc Digital Health); Dr. Michelle Carr and
Dr. Aileen Murphy (MSc Healthcare Leadership)


Cork University Business School currently offers two executive healthcare programmes.  Click on the links to learn more:

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