The Robot called “Madra” proved particularly popular as it delivered emergency medicines whilst a drone demonstration showed how efficiently an epipen could be delivered to the island.
Over 80 islanders, aged from 18 to 90, have already signed up to the project, which began in September 2022.The brainchild of Professor Derek O’Keefe, a physicianeer , who is attached to the University of Galway, the project is funded through a public-private partnership led by global technology company Cisco and Cúram, the Science Foundation of Ireland Research Centre for Medical Devices at the University of Galway, in partnership with the HSE.
“Cisco wanted to test the bounds of what was possible for healthcare in a remote location and through proactive engagement with the former development coordinator here on the island, we were chosen,” McCabe explains. The platform for the technologies available at the health hub is delivered through Irish company MyPatientSpace software. It includes the facilitation of clinical consultations with dual screen videos, remote patient monitoring and an Artificial Intelligence algorithm which actively triages the level of urgency for an outpatient appointment.
“I can already see such a change in people’s attitude to health on the island,” Islander Jack Pinder who works on the project told The Irish Times.
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