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Webinar: Needs Led Innovation for Digital Health (Recording)

Webinar: Needs Led Innovation for Digital Health

Connected Health Skillnet and Irish Medtech Association on hosted a live webinar to discuss Digital Health Innovation on Friday, 25 October. The webinar was recorded and is available on demand. Please register below to gain access.

During the webinar, we were joined by needs-led innovation and biodesign subject matter experts who presented a high-level overview of the upcoming Digital Health Innovation Programme, a tailored needs-led innovation training programme for the medtech, pharma and technology sectors with a unique focus on digital health and connected devices. This was followed by a discussion with Fionn Lahart, CEO and Co-Founder, Luma Vision on his teams experience participating in the 2023 programme and the importance of needs-led innovation to ensuring a ‘market pull’ rather than ‘technology push’ approach to digital health product innovation.
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Draft Agenda
09:30 - Welcome
Jennifer McCormack, Network Manager, Connected Health Skillnet

09:35 - Overview of the Digital Health Innovation Programme
Paul Anglim, Founder of Angles Consulting & Health Lead at the Guinness Enterprise Centre,
Ceara Treacy, Innovation and Research Projects Manager, dConnect,
Breanndán Casey, Education & Outreach Manager (Clusters), Connected Health & Well-Being Cluster, DkIT

09:55 - Industry case study on needs-led innovation
Discussion with Fionn Lahart, Co-Founder and CEO, LUMA Vision (chaired by Paul Anglim)

10:10 - Q&A

10:20 - Webinar end
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Register to watch the Webinar recording

To view the webinar recording, please complete the below Connected Health Skillnet registration form. Shortly after your registration you will receive a link to view the webinar.

Register your place here

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About the Digital Heath Innovation Programme

The Digital Health Innovation Programme, starting 12 December 2024, has been developed by the Connected Health Skillnet in collaboration with dConnect, Angles Consulting and the Skillnets Industry Steering Group. The curriculum has been tailored to industry needs and designed to ensure participants can apply the skills and knowledge learned in real-world company projects.

The aim of the programme is to embed the mindset and methodology of needs-led innovation with a view to increasing innovation capability and new product development in the health technology sector. The focus is on digital health whether that be exploring new solutions or adding connectivity to existing product portfolios.

The programme applies a “learn by doing” approach using proven biodesign, lean start-up and design thinking methodologies. Throughout the programme, participants will learn and apply the process of investigating and identifying unmet customer and commercial needs, prioritising those needs, identifying potential solutions, assessing their commercial potential and developing compelling business cases for stakeholder and funding approval.

The programme comprises of 8 workshops delivered over a 5-month period in parallel with mentoring, industry networking, customer and stakeholder engagement and group project work. Throughout, participants will work in multidisciplinary company teams (2-5 people) on real-world projects/strategic focus areas to progress an unmet need. A key programme output will be a business case and pitch for presentation to company management.

For more information on this programme or to register your companies interest, please contact jennifer.mccormack@ibec.ie for more information.

Upcoming dates:

No training dates available at the moment.