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NI Task And Finish Group Recommendations
The NI Task and Finish Group was established under the remit of the Connected Health and Prosperity Board, to aid the exploitation of opportunities from Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland. The...
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Connected Health Innovation Centre: Call for New Members
Time is running out if your company is interested in participating in Northern Ireland’s Connected Health Innovation Centre (CHIC). The funding for CHIC is now in place and companies who would like to...
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NI’s Competence Centre launched in Connected Health
Professor Jim Mclaughlin with Minister Arlene Foster at the launch of the Connected Health Innovation Centre (CHIC) In February 2012 we reported on the formation of a ‘Connected Health Innovation...
View ArticleQueen’s Team Takes Top Honours at 25k Awards 2013
A Queen’s University Belfast team which is developing a range of novel medical diagnostic tests is the overall winner of the 25k Awards 2013, sponsored by Bank of Ireland. The awards are made under the...
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TMED Health Challenge 2013 Winners Announced
Five companies developing healthcare and lifestyle projects pitched against each other in the final of the TMED Health Challenge 2013, which took place as part of this year’s CultureTECH festival. The...
View ArticleNUI Galway trials falls detection system
NUI Galway is actively recruiting participants aged 64 and over to test a wearable sensor and home wireless network to detect falls. The project is part of a €2.25 million EU Competitiveness and...
View ArticleStudy: Knowledge and perceptions of connected health in Northern Ireland
A recent study published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice set out to examine the public’s knowledge and perceptions of ‘Connected Health’ in Northern Ireland. A questionnaire was...
View ArticleIrish Human Computer Interaction Conference 2014
2014 marks the 8th Annual Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) conference, Ireland’s leading forum for work in all areas of Human Computer Interaction. The conference theme is “Shaping our Digital...
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Rubber Bands – The next big thing in wearable sensors?
When you’re ten years old, pinging rubber bands across the classroom is fun. Getting caught doing so by your teacher is not. However you have to admit it’s kind of a novel use for those flexible little...
View ArticleKinesis Health Technologies invents wearable falls prevention device
UCD spin-out Kinesis Health Technologies has invented a wearable mobility and falls risk assessment device, that it claims can reduce falls by up to 40 percent. Kinesis’ first product QTUG uses...
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