The Connected Patient
COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of digital health innovations, and new solutions are continually emerging. What will the patient experience be in the future? What will set the gold standard solutions apart from the crowd? And what does connected health mean for clinician workflow?
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Moderator: Loretto Callaghan
Loretto is a Chartered Director with senior executive and non-executive director experience in the Biopharmaceutical / Medical Devices / Healthcare sectors. She was former CEO and Country President of Novartis in Ireland and is currently serving on the Boards of a number of state and commercial organisations and provides strategy development, commercial, market access and stakeholder management advice to leading Biopharma, Medical Device and Digital Health organisations.
Panelists
Dr. Dara Meldrum, Associate Professor
Dr. Dara Meldrum is an Associate Professor at the Academic Unit of Neurology, School of Medicine, and the ADAPT centre at Trinity College Dublin and is a physiotherapist. She is the founder and inventor of VERTIGENIUS. She has been treating patients with dizziness and teaching and researching in the area of Vestibular Rehabilitation for over 20 years.
David van Zuydam
David van Zuydam is co-founder and CEO of Head Diagnostics. He is a chartered management accountant and previously held senior roles in Microsoft, Accenture, Flextronics and Philips. He established Head Diagnostics as a spinout MedTech and tech company in 2018, defining company strategy, product market fit, clinical approach and market access. He has experience in fund raising and exits, medical device technology, establishing new markets, due diligence, licensing, medical regulatory, product development, retail, IOT, supply chain, shared service and manufacturing and his Focus is on Helping Citizens Live a Healthier Life for Longer.
Professor Richard Costello
Professor Richard Costello is both Consultant Physician at Beaumont Hospital Dublin, with a special interest in airways diseases, and a Professor of Medicine at the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences.
He has developed, patented and copyrighted technology, Pyxiom, related to aspects of remote monitoring of respiratory health, which he is developing with support from Enterprise Ireland. Phyxiom is a clinical support system which analyses data recorded from a variety of digital monitoring devices used to manage respiratory disease like asthma and COPD enabling safe, cost-effective care for respiratory patients.
Dr John Dinsmore
Dr. John Dinsmore is Health Innovation Lead/Deputy Director of the Trinity Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation and Ussher Assistant Professor of Digital Integrated Care. Dr. Dinsmore's teaching and research focuses on the application of health psychology and behavioural science to the fields of digital health and digital integrated care, with specific emphasis on proactive person-centred ageing and chronic disease/multimorbidity management.
John led the development of ProACT, a digital integrated care system to support older adults living with multimorbidity (multiple chronic conditions), with a focus on diabetes, chronic heart disease/failure, COPD, and mild cognitive impairment. ProACT is now being evaluated via large-scale, pragmatic randomised controlled trials in the SEURO project. Both ProACT and SEURO were funded by Horizon 2020.
