The IMSTA awards are a prestigious event in the Irish health technology sector, and Patrick O’Connor and Jerry O’Mahony are looking forward to attending. The guest speaker for this year’s event is Joe Schmidt, head coach of the Ireland rugby team, and the MC is broadcaster Anton Savage.
The IMSTA Awards, now in their sixth year, have grown significantly, with entries coming from hospitals, researchers, medtech entrepreneurs and industry. Previous winners come from acute hospital research teams, primary health care providers, SME start-ups, community health care products, digital health entrepreneurs, global medtech companies and local distributors.
We were shortlisted for our HomesafeCare initiative, which used the latest technology to keep elderly people safe in their own homes: a simple system to help them remain living at home for as long as possible, with a 24-hour monitoring station staffed by trained people who, on receiving an alert, first establish whether there is a problem and then contact family members.