Call for Innovation!

As part of Patient Solutions, we're excited to launch two brand-new platforms that celebrate forward-thinking approaches to some of today’s most pressing healthcare challenges. These initiatives aim to shine a light on both emerging digital technologies and practical, non-digital innovations that drive meaningful improvements in patient care and outcomes.

Thank you to everyone who entered our Call for Innovation. We have had some amazing entries and are inspired by all your hard work. See below for the confirmed case studies that will be presenting on the day.

How it works

Innovation Labs - Call for Entries!

Innovation Labs offer the opportunity for healthcare providers, industry and patients to showcase innovative approaches to critical healthcare challenges and patient needs.


The confirmed case studies are:

Lab 1: Supporting Ageing in Place - Policy, Integration, and Nursing Home Care

This session will present key insights from Nursing Homes Ireland’s Supporting Ageing in Place Insights Paper, which synthesises discussions from the February 2025 national roundtable on nursing home care. The presentation will highlight how resident-focused approaches and cross-sector collaboration can shape a more sustainable, rights-based system of care.

Kevin Deegan, Policy & Communications Lead, Nursing Homes Ireland


Occupational Therapy Led Reablement as an Alternative Discharge Pathway

This project, an innovative collaboration between UHW and the local Home Support office addresses delayed discharges and limited subacute care by delivering a home-based rehabilitation service led by Occupational Therapy and delivered by HCAs retrained in Reablement. The model ensures patients receive the right care, in the right place at the right time and critically leverages existing staff resources—making it both scalable and cost-effective.

Megan Walsh , Senior Occupational Therapist, University Hospital Waterford


GLA:D® Ireland Programme for Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis

This session will describe the implementation of a bottom-up non-profit initiative, GLA:D® Ireland, to improve access to evidence-based care for people with osteoarthritis. Consisting of supervised group exercise and education delivered by trained physiotherapists, the improvements in outcomes for patients across all four provinces in Ireland will be presented.

Dr Clodagh Toomey, Associate Professor, University of Limerick

If you have a non-digital solution which helps overcome barriers to access, reduces wait times, advances prevention and early diagnosis, increases accessibility and aids with chronic disease management or more generally, improves patient outcomes and optimises healthcare delivery, we want to hear from you.
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PatientTech - Call for entries!

PatientTech is a competition specifically designed for startups, innovators and digital health entrepreneurs who have cutting edge digital solutions that meet pressing healthcare challenges.


The confirmed case studies are:

ADMiRE ADHD Navigator: An evidence-based solution that transforms ADHD assessment and treatment for young people in Ireland

This session explores how ADMiRE ADHD Navigator, an innovative digital platform, is transforming ADHD assessment and treatment for young people in Ireland. It tackles systemic challenges like long delays and fragmented communication by uniting families, schools, and clinicians on a single, user-friendly interface. Key insights and lessons from the solution's deployment will also be presented.

Thomas Coleman, CEO & Co-Founder, Zendra Health


Before My Visit: A Conversational AI Tool for Patients to Document and Query their Medical Data

Before My Visit is a very simple to use mobile app that patients can use to compile, maintain and query their entire medical history using a simple chat interface, completely replacing the need for form and/or paper-based input. Complex data handling and transformation happens behind the scenes while the user interacts with an interface designed to look and feel more like a WhatsApp chat than a medical tracker.

David O’Regan, Founder, ReganByte


Evidence-Based Healthcare Transformation: Supported Self-Management of COPD

This session explores how digital health technology can reduce the burden of chronic conditions, focusing on COPD. It reviews evidence for digitally-supported self-management in preventing hospitalisations and GP visits while improving symptoms. Real-world implementation learnings will offer practical insights for policymakers and healthcare professionals planning integrated care delivery.

Eamonn Costello, CEO & Co-Founder, patientMpower

If you have a digital or tech-based solution which helps overcome barriers to access, reduces wait times, advances prevention, increases accessibility and aids with early diagnosis efforts or more generally, improves patient outcomes and optimises healthcare delivery, we want to hear from you.
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Key dates

Entry deadline
Presentations confirmed

How it works

Submission Process  

To enter your patient solution please submit a written application of no more than 500 words before Friday 8 August 2025 covering the following:

  1. Explain the innovation/solution and the challenge it aims to solve  
  2. Example(s) of real-world application
  3. Impact of this innovation/solution on patient care, outcomes and/or service effectiveness including data or other measures of success

Selection   

Once the deadline has passed, your submission will be reviewed by our panel of experts and successful applicants will have the opportunity to present their innovation at Patient Solutions 2025.