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system in the world that has automated respiration rates as the standard of care in our non-ICU wards ."
Another key partner is Irish software-asa-service company RedZinc . HSE worked with RedZinc on a new video conferencing solution for St . James ' s Hospital , Ireland ' s largest teaching hospital and HSE ’ s mental health division . " It works very simply . The consultant that needs to speak to a patient sends them a text , the patient clicks on the text , and it immediately opens a secure two-way video conferencing solution . At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic we had the solution in place in a matter of weeks before we started to see some of the more mainstream solutions become adopted ."
He attributes the speed at which they ' ve been able to innovate to their partner ecosystem , which includes large companies , universities , policymakers and SMEs . The stakeholders work with an approach called Open Innovation 2.0 . " Open Innovation has been around for a while ," Curley explains . " It was popularised in 2003 by Henry Chesbrough . I had the privilege of working with the European Commission and leading a group focused on Open Innovation over the last nine years or so . We were tracking what was happening with Open Innovation and recognised a new paradigm has emerged : Open Innovation 2.0 .”
" Where Open Innovation is a collaboration between two parties , Open Innovation 2.0 is a multi-party collaboration with many actors from different areas all coalesced around
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