{"id":13002,"date":"2025-11-14T17:47:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/?p=13002"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:33:22","slug":"ai-can-grow-the-economy-and-improve-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/healthcare-innovations\/ai-can-grow-the-economy-and-improve-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"AI can grow the economy and improve healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-profile-box round ab-has-avatar ab-font-size-14 ab-block-profile ab-profile-columns\"><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"ab-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"ab-profile-image-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"ab-profile-avatar wp-image-13003\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/11\/14173911\/vicky-1763141951-CEF-headshot-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/11\/14173911\/vicky-1763141951-CEF-headshot-2023.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/11\/14173911\/vicky-1763141951-CEF-headshot-2023-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"ab-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\"><strong>Ciara Finlay<\/strong><\/h2><p class=\"ab-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\"><strong>Senior Executive, Irish Medtech<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"ab-profile-text\"><\/div><ul class=\"ab-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ireland is a strong contender to become a global leader in digital health, and with the right strategies and meaningful collaboration across sectors, we\u2019re one step closer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) was identified as a priority for 65% of respondents in a study by the Ibec Digital Health Working Group, with Am\u00e1rach Research, as part of the \u2018Where Digital Health Thrives\u2019 campaign led by Irish Medtech, BioPharmaChem Ireland and Technology Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ireland-as-a-potential-global-digital-health-hub\"><strong>Ireland as a potential global digital health hub<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 200 companies are working in digital health, with a burgeoning segment using AI. Unsurprisingly, data science and AI were identified by 70% as the top future skill to help realise the sector\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our vision is to make Ireland a global hub for digital health, where companies develop and commercialise products and attract investments. In AI, we\u2019re seeing robotics, diagnostics and workflow optimisation as growth areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ireland is well-positioned as a testbed for developing and scaling digital health solutions, thanks to our ecosystem, which spans global leaders in medtech, biopharma, tech and digital health and a strong track record for partnering to deliver disruptive healthtech solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 82% of respondents plan on investing in the digitalisation of healthcare, but to reap the benefits, we need to bring stakeholders together to get ahead of technological and business trends and ensure that polices are fit-for-purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Ireland is well-positioned as a testbed for developing and scaling digital health <br>solutions, thanks to our ecosystem, which spans global leaders in medtech, biopharma, tech and digital health<a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-healthcare-digitalisation-on-the-rise\"><strong>Healthcare digitalisation on the rise<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital health is estimated to grow to \u20ac426 billion by 2027, and as many as 87% of leaders said that Government strategy was \u2018very important\u2019 or \u2018important.\u2019 This is why the National Life Science Strategy for Ireland, announced by the Government, has huge potential. Cross-industry input, alongside key opinion leaders, is essential to compete with the likes of France and the UK, which have made digital health a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, digital health companies are actively working with us and Skillnet Ireland on mapping a GenAI Use Case Roadmap for the sector, which will inform how AI will be both an enabler and a part of digital health solutions in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By embracing new technologies, upskilling and implementing the right industrial policies, AI can both grow our economy and support better healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Read more about Ibec\u2019s cross-sectoral \u2018Where Digital Health Thrives\u2019 campaign on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibec.ie\/digitalhealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.ibec.ie\/digitalhealth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is a strong contender to become a global leader in digital health, and with the right strategies and meaningful collaboration across sectors, we\u2019re one step closer. Artificial intelligence (AI) was identified as a priority for 65% of respondents in a study by the Ibec Digital Health Working Group, with Am\u00e1rach Research, as part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/healthcare-innovations\/ai-can-grow-the-economy-and-improve-healthcare\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":13004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5973],"tags":[5995],"class_list":["post-13002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare-innovations","tag-healthcare-innovations"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/11\/14174636\/vicky-1763142393-GettyImages-2203545348-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/11\/14174636\/vicky-1763142393-GettyImages-2203545348-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Mica Robertson","author_link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/author\/micarobertson\/"},"vicky_index_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13242,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions\/13242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}