5 – Swisslog Healthcare | USA
This American health tech innovation provides integrated medication supply chain solutions to hospitals and health systems – to assist providers in treating patients across the continuum of care.
They have devoted themselves to finding solutions for medical facilities and to helping more pharmacists and healthcare professionals focus on their work with patients, automating medication management and delivery of critical items.
TransLogic, a division of Swisslog Healthcare, provides pneumatic tube systems which enable hospitals and health systems to reduce operational costs by saving up to 200 hours of manual transport every day.
The medication management division delivers pharmacy automation, which creates a much-needed synergy for hospital and patient needs — giving and receiving the right medications at the right time.
Their technology is in hospitals throughout with the majority of market use in the United States and Canada.
These sophisticated solutions give medical professionals the ability to focus on meaningful tasks such as allowing a smaller staff to focus on patient-focused activities.
Swisslog Healthcare Medication Management division installed one of the world’s largest robotic medication retrieval systems at St. Mary’s Medical Centre in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Currently hospital pharmacies like the one at St. Mary’s are being stretched thin without proper staffing from the national workforce shortages following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Swisslog Healthcare solutions such as the BoxPicker automate repeated tasks that previously had to be performed individually by people, thus allowing for the people who are in place to focus more on tasks tied directly to patient care.
Their innovations are helping relieve the stress of hospital teams across the country.
- CEO: Cory Kwarta
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6 -PSi (People Supported Intelligence) – Dublin
PSi is pioneering a revolutionary piece of tech, which is working to eliminating bias, top down, as well as bottom up. It can compile the opinions of thousands of people into concise and measurable data – bias free.
Their unique algorithm allows voice conversations between tens to thousands of participants to be collated into data. This leaves no room for misinformation, and ensuring that marginalised voices to not get overshadowed and dismissed.
PSi hopes to be used in the healthcare industry to ensure that group decisions from the top to the bottom of the sector – from boards to nurses – can be rightfully represented.
Founder Georgina was inspired to create PSi from her work within the NHS, and female health app, Clue, when her career in the healthcare industry demonstrated the challenges of meaningfully engaging with large, diverse groups.
She is committed to improving the group decision making processes which impact often underrepresented groups.
The algorithm enables the opinions of thousands to be collated in just 38 minutes – a process which usually takes weeks and uses already stretched resources within healthcare.
Furthermore, PSi seeks to eliminate the unconscious bias which influences decision making within hospitals and the wider healthcare industry – disproportionately impacting female health and particularly women of colour.
- Founder: Georgina Denis
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