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Dr Róisín Molloy ( TriMedika ) and Professor Martin Curley ( Health Service Executive ) discuss how TRITEMP™ thermometer has helped drive the digital innovation agenda in Ireland .
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Working in the medical industry for 25 years , Dr Róisín Molloy , CEO at TriMedika , could see areas where technology wasn ’ t keeping up with patient need . “ We set up TriMedika to provide the most accurate clinical devices for hospitals , and this is where we see ourselves as being different .”
A particular area that Dr Molloy explains hasn ’ t seen much development is thermometry . “ There has been no development for 15 years . Yet it is one of the routine diagnostics that we use around the world , so we set about making the TRITEMP™ non-contact thermometer .“
“ The key things that came from talking to doctors , nurses and healthcare workers within the HSE , were obviously the savings on cost and time for the healthcare workers at the hospital , but also to manage infections , and we were keen to build the future for thermometry .”
TriMedika and its Partnership with the HSE . For the last four years , TriMedika has been selling into the HSE , now in over 200 locations in Ireland , as well as hospitals in over 20 countries . “ We have been working with the HSE team to really understand their needs and their pain points , as well as looking at research to make thermometers better and develop them so that they are better for nurses and hospital teams . The HSE is a very forwardthinking organisation ”, says Dr Molloy .
Adding to Dr Molloy ’ s comments , Professor Martin Curley , HSE Director of Transformation / Maynooth University , says , “ It has been tremendous to partner with TriMedika . The ambition of the HSE is to move Ireland from being a digital health laggard to a European digital leader in the years ahead . To do that , we need to partner with the best and the brightest , both here and abroad .”
“ We have an overarching strategy , which we call ‘ stay left , shift left ’. Stay left is about using technology to keep people well in their home , or if you happen to have a chronic condition you can be managed best of all from home . Shift left is about moving patients as quickly as possible from an acute to a community , to a home setting . Every time we make these digital interventions , we ’ re trying to achieve the quadruple aim : lower cost , improved quality of care , improved quality of life and improved clinician experience . TriMedika delivers on all of these .”
“ The TRITEMP™ is a superior thermometer because it is non-contact , thus helping with infection control - very important during the COVID-19 pandemic . It ’ s going to be an essential tool for preventing Hospital Acquired Infections . It ’ s also more sustainable with no consumables making it about a fifth of the total cost of ownership of conventional thermometers .”
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