intellectual property

Aug 052015
 
Double success for the Northern HSC trust at the NI Healthcare Awards

Antrim Area Hospital’s Pharmacy and Medicines Management Centre was successful with two projects in the recent 16th Northern Ireland Health Care Awards.  LAMPS (Live Automated Microbiology Pharmacy Surveillance System), its software-based surveillance system for monitoring antimicrobial resistance, won in the award category ‘Innovations in quality and efficiency through technology’, whilst WriteMed, an electronic Medicines Reconciliation

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Sep 302014
 
Belfast Trust Licenses Rapid Group B Streptococcus Diagnostic

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has licensed its rapid molecular diagnostic for Group B streptococcus to HiberGene Diagnostics Ltd. The Group B streptococcus assay is 100% sensitive and 93% specific when compared to direct culture.

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Aug 142013
 
Protecting and Exploiting Intellectual Property in Healthcare – Event Report

On 18th June 2013 HSC Innovations in conjunction with Invest NI and the UK Intellectual Property Office delivered a workshop on ‘Protecting and Exploiting Intellectual Property in Healthcare’. There were over 60 delegates from health sector companies, clinicians and researchers from throughout Northern Ireland who participated in the interactive workshop to learn how best to protect and exploit their Intellectual Assets. This is a report of the event.

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Apr 262013
 
Protecting and Exploiting Intellectual Property in Healthcare

An event hosted by Invest Northern Ireland on 18th June will focus on the important topics of how local health sector companies, clinicians and researchers can best protect and exploit their intellectual assets. There will be examples of how Northern Ireland health sector inventors and companies address the most common intellectual property issues.

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Oct 042011
 
Novel Rapid Meningitis Diagnostic Test Moves Closer To Market

  Belfast Trust licenses patent to HiberGene Diagnostics HSC Innovations is pleased to announce that Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has licensed its novel rapid meningitis diagnostic test to HiberGene Diagnostics Ltd, a start-up client company of NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Novel Rapid Meningitis Diagnostic Test Moves Closer To

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Mar 212011
 

HSC Innovations recommends to HSC entrepreneurs and ‘wantrepreneurs’ the excellent workshop series provided by the CONNECT programme at the Northern Ireland Science Park (NISP). Coming up in this series is Protection: Intellectual Property tactics for start-ups, on Thursday 24th March 2011, 8.30am – 10am at NISP. Here’s the introduction: Protection: Intellectual Property Tactics for Start-Ups was

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Feb 042011
 

A new date for the Northern HSC Trust workshop that was postponed from December 2010. On Friday 15th April 2011 HSC Innovations will deliver a workshop on ‘Innovation to Improve Patient Care’ for members of staff in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust, supported by the Northern Trust Research Office. Northern Trust Workshop –

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