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€5 million Connected Health Centre opened at UCD


Pictured at the launch of ARCH, the new Connected Health Technology Centre were Michael O’Shea, ARCH Centre Director, Andrew Collins, VU 2 VU one of the 15 participating companies and Richard Bruton T.D. Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Healthcare services in Ireland could be transformed as a result of research conducted at the new Connected Health Technology Centre launched recently by Richard Bruton T.D. Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. The €5 million Applied Research for Connected Health (ARCH) Technology Centre is funded by the Department of Jobs through Enterprise Ireland and is also supported by IDA Ireland.

ARCH is hosted at University College Dublin (UCD) where researchers from clinical, engineering, technology, policy and economic fields - with input from University of Limerick (UL) and almost all Higher Education Institutes in the country with connected health research capabilities - will collaborate to deliver on the connected health research agenda defined by its industry steering group.

Connected Health is the utilisation of “connecting” technologies i.e. communication systems – broadband, wireless, mobile phone, fixed phone lines - and medical devices and treatments for healthcare applications. In addition, technologies relating to sensors, alarm systems, vital sign monitoring devices, health informatics and data management systems are also fundamental to the development of connected health solutions.

Explaining the need for a connected health approach to delivering clinical services, Michael O’Shea, ARCH Centre Director said: “Every country in the world is facing infinite demand for healthcare services from finite resources, spiralling costs caused by the invention of new drugs, medical equipment and procedures, higher patient expectations and an ageing population (by 2051, close to 40% of the EU’s population will be older than 65). Combined with shortages of health professionals, the scale of the challenge is daunting.

“Advances in technology, such as those being developed through ARCH, are enabling a shift towards personalised healthcare and information-based health services which will improve patient experiences and reduce the cost of delivering healthcare.”

During the initial research phase, the team at ARCH under the direction of UCD’s Professor Brian Caulfield, UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science, focused on caring for patients with dementia. The ARCH model will now be applied to a broader range of clinical conditions as determined by industry and healthcare needs such as diabetes and heart disease.

ARCH is headquartered at NexusUCD, the Industry Partnership Centre at UCD, and there are currently 15 industry partners steering the ARCH research programme including; ADA Security Systems, Boston Scientific, Hermitage Medical Clinic, ICON, OpenHealth, Novartis, Relate Care, S3 Group, Swiftqueue, Theya Lingerie, Two Ten Health, Vitalograph, Philips, Resmed and Vu2Vu; all actively involved in the connected health sector.

NexusUCD - The Industry Partnership Centre at University College Dublin (video):

NexusUCD - The Industry Partnership Centre at University College Dublin

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