Last week, Taoiseach Micheál Martin launched a list compiled by Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI) of Irish companies that are disrupting the health-tech sector with new innovations to demonstrate the supports it offers to start-ups.

Here are the 20 Irish innovations in the growing health-tech space that are improving Ireland’s health services and bringing it up to speed in 2022.

Ostoform

Based in Co Westmeath, Ostoform is a medtech start-up which manufactures medical seals for use with patients who have received an ileostomy – where the small intestine is diverted through an opening in the abdomen.

Founded by Kevin Kelleher in 2016, Ostoform raised €3m in private equity funding in October last year.

My OT & Me

This online platform is an educational tool that offers paediatric occupational therapy (OT) resources for children and young people with different abilities to develop basic skills needed in everyday activities.

Based in Co Cork, My OT & Me was founded by Jess Kennedy and Seán Ó Tuama in 2018. The health-tech is currently piloting a new paediatric OT service with thirty children and their families in Cork City who are awaiting OT intervention services.

Zendra Health

Dublin-based Zendra Health has built an app that aims to help nurses and care facility employees deal with the stress and anxiety that comes with working during a pandemic.

Founded by twin brothers David and Thomas Coleman, the platform prompts patients when to do their rehab exercises, how to carry them out correctly and records progress, reducing the need to travel to hospital for outpatient appointments.

Wellola

Wellola is a B2B communications portal focused on mental healthcare which was previously known as PhysioLinked. Its secure patient portal includes an online reservations system for online therapy, video consultation with no third-party downloads, integrated payment, and e-invoicing and messaging in compliance with the EU’s GDPR.

A former Start-up of the Week on SiliconRepublic.com, Wellola was founded in 2017 by CEO Sonia Neary.

Hygiene Audits

This Kildare-based start-up has developed a software platform which helps clinical sites to track and trace infection risks and measure compliance with national and international standards. The hygiene auditing system gathers, monitors, and displays the data on a management dashboard. Glenda Hahn and Yvonne O’Loughlin founded Hygiene Audits in 2018.

SyncroPhi

SyncroPhi is a Galway health-tech company that has invented a wireless patient monitoring system that can be placed on patients in A&E, enabling nurses and doctors to monitor a patient’s vital signs more remotely.

Founded by David Toohey, the medtech start-up received €1m in seed funding from the AIB Seed Fund and the Western Investment Fund in 2013 to bring its device to the market.

ViClarity

ViClarity provides governance, risk and compliance software to the financial and healthcare sectors. Information is gathered in real-time and displayed on a live dashboard, allowing healthcare facility managers to see any areas of noncompliance quickly and easily.

Headquartered in Tralee, Co Kerry, with further offices in Boston and Des Moines, Iowa, the start-up was founded by John Ogie Sheehy in 2008.

HiberGene Diagnostics

HiberGene is a medtech start-up that develops, manufactures and markets rapid-diagnostic tests. It uses innovative, real-time software to diagnose, for instance, meningitis in less than one hour – significantly faster than traditional ‘culture’ methods that need to be sent to labs for 48 to 72 hours.

Based in Dublin, the start-up was founded by Dr David Corr and raised $2.1m in 2014 from private investors along with Enterprise Ireland and Kernel Capital in Cork.

Dental Tech Group

This Dublin health-tech start-up has made an oral care programme for older people that incorporates blended learning with online interactive modules and offline practical exercises. It is aimed at care assistants, nurses, family members and older people themselves.

Dental Tech Group is based in Dublin and was founded by Bevin Mahon in 1993.

Salaso Healthcare Solutions

Salaso is a smartphone app that is used by healthcare providers and clinicians to help patients perform their prescribed exercises, both in hospitals and at home. The platform focuses on physical rehabilitation and wellness, with an online exercise library supporting rehabilitation and therapy across a wide range of clinical areas.

The company, a previous SiliconRepublic.com Start-up of the Week, was founded in 2011 by Aoife Ní Mhuirí and is based in Co Kerry.

Yellow Schedule

This company has built an appointment scheduling platform to make hospital visits safe for both patients and healthcare workers. The system helps nominate visitors, schedule visits and enables pre-screening of patients.

Since Covid, Yellow Schedule has teamed up with HIHI and hospitals in Ireland to help schedule visits. It was founded in 2012 by Martina and Michael Skelly.

Gasgon Medical

Gasgon Medical is a Cork-based health-tech start-up that has designed AirVault, a device for removing air bubbles from fluids primarily in medical IV infusions. It aims to remove the need for nurse intervention by automatically capturing air bubbles before they become a problem, and to deliver a more accurate infusion dose so patients are treated and recover faster.

Founded by Vincent Forde, it was named the overall winner of the 2021 InterTradeIreland Seedcorn competition in November, receiving a €100,000 cash prize.

PacSana

This start-up focuses on supporting families and carers with technology to help prolong independent living for older or vulnerable people. It has developed wearable technology that allows care providers to remotely monitor people in their own homes.

The PacSana bracelet provides data on movement and activity, and the company has also developed a wearable thermometer and fingertip pulse oximeter to monitor other vitals. It was founded in 2019 by Feargal Duignan and is based in Dublin.

Novus Diagnostics

Novus Diagnostics, formerly known by the name of its main product SepTec, has built a point-of-care diagnostic device that screens blood for sepsis associated bloodstream infection, detecting and identifying pathogens within 15 minutes.

It was dubbed the One to Watch at the 2018 Big Ideas showcase of science-led start-ups. Founded by Dr Elaine Spain and Dr Kellie Adamson and launched in 2020, the health-tech start-up is based in Dublin.

Symphysis

Another SiliconRepublic.com Start-up of the Week, Symphysis combines design and digital technology to deliver a high standard of patient care at home. Its product called RelEase is a minimally invasive technology that incorporates an active component designed to accelerate treatment of malignant pleural effusions, or fluid build-up in the lungs. It was founded by Michelle Tierney and Tim Jones and is based in Co Galway.

Think Biosolution

Think Biosolution is an original design manufacturer that has created privately labelled wearable devices and customised software using QuasaR sensor technology for telemedicine platforms, professional athlete monitoring platforms and sports brands.

Founded by Dr Shourjya Sanyal and Koushik Kumar Nudy in Dublin, the health-tech has previously been featured on SiliconRepublic.com as a Start-up of the Week.

xWave

This health-tech start-up aims to deliver smart healthcare platforms that “empower patients and their clinicians to access the best healthcare solutions at the touch of a button”, according to CEO Mitchell O’Gorman. Based in Dublin, xWave has raised €600,000 in pre-seed funding to develop a radiology referral tool called xRefer.

The cloud-based platform lets users send referrals from either a computer or mobile device, with a search function that helps clinicians in public and private hospitals determine the most appropriate scans to suit patient needs.

MedDeus

This Galway-based start-up is on a mission to solve the ubiquitous problem of the illegibility of hand-written prescriptions. It has created a cloud-based system called ClearScribe that helps deliver printed prescriptions at the point of care and improves the efficiency of medication dispensation.

In 2020, Blackrock Clinic partnered with MedDeus to trial ClearScribe® in an effort to help address errors in the medication prescribing process. MedDeus was founded by Niamh Boner and Mary Allen.

FeelTect

FeelTect is another Galway medtech start-up that is trying to improve treatment for patients with venous leg ulcers. It is developing a pressure sensing device called Tight Alright that can be easily and securely attached to a compression bandage to measure and monitor pressure under the bandage.

The data collected can then be used by healthcare professionals to address issues with compliance or make informed decisions on changes in compression regimens. The start-up was founded by Dr Andrew Cameron and Darren Burke.

PPR Healthcare

PPR, which stands for post-partum relief, is a health-tech that focuses on the much-overlooked area of post-birth healthcare for mothers. The company has a whole range of over-the-counter products, called A New Mum, that aim to help mothers struggling with infection and discomfort after giving birth.

The company has also designed a disposable pair of briefs for new mothers to help with healing, cooling and soothing of sensitive areas in the weeks after giving birth. It was founded by Marian Kennedy in Co Tipperary.

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