This day last week Anaeko attended this years INVENT Awards at the ICC Belfast, where we acted as corporate sponsors of the ‘Business Software’ category and had the absolute pleasure of presenting the award to this years winners SEQO.
The INVENT Awards are Northern Ireland’s premier competition for innovative start-ups to showcase their business acumen and budding entrepreneurial spirit.
Organised by science and technology hub Catalyst with headline partner Bank of Ireland, the annual INVENT Awards celebrate the brightest new business ideas with the greatest commercial potential from across the region.
Ten finalists were chosen to compete for the main prize at a showcase event in the ICC Belfast, with GoPlugable taking home a prize package from the total prize fund of £52,000. Founded by Maebh Reynolds GoPlugable is dedicated to facilitating the transition to electric vehicles for first-time buyers who lack access to personal home chargers. By providing a platform to locate, reserve, and share neighbouring EV home charging points.
As sponsors of the Business Software category at this years awards, Anaeko CEO Denis Murphy had the honour of presenting this category award to SEQO, an innovative new start-up founded by Brendan Lowry and Claire McCaffrey. SEQO is a platform for managing continuity in the TV and Film Industry.
Congratulations to all the finalists that made it to the INVENT Awards:
Greentech: Wake and Make – Energy, GoPluggable
Health and Wellbeing: AXONNR, Little Sunflower
Product: CycleAid, WearMatter
Business Software: SEQO, Track
Consumer Software: Feminatech, Learning Me
and to each to the category winners:
Greentech: GoPlugable
Health and Wellbeing: Little Sunflower
Business Software: SEQO
Product: CycleAid
Consumer Software: Learning Me
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Anaeko CTO Colm Hayden, Head of Data Roger Wallace and Solutions Architect Stephen Moffitt attended yesterdays ‘AWS Well-Architected Bootcamp’ at the AWS offices on Charlemont street, Dublin 2. The AWS Well-Architected Partner Program helps organisations establish good architectural habits, reduce risks, and respond faster to changes that affect designs, applications, and workloads. AWS Partners gain expertise to build high-quality solutions, implement best practices, check the state of workloads, and make improvements to fit business and customer needs.
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AWS Well-Architected helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety of applications and workloads. Built around six pillars—operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. The AWS framework provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures and implement scalable designs.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework includes domain-specific lenses, hands-on labs, and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The AWS Tool, available at no cost in the AWS Management Console, provides a mechanism for regularly evaluating workloads, identifying high-risk issues, and recording improvements.
AWS also provides access to an ecosystem of hundreds of members in the AWS Partner Program. Engage a partner in your area to help analyze and review your applications. We can’t wait to put what we learnt into practice and share insights with the extended team at Anaeko.
The Anaeko team attended the Belfast stop on the AWS roadshow 2022 at Titanic Belfast this week. As an AWS partner we both attended and exhibited at the event held in the Olympic suite of the iconic building, and got a chance to hear from and connect with the expanding AWS community across Northern Ireland.
The half-day event in Belfast was presented to focus on how the cloud can help you save costs, improve agility and accelerate innovation. We got to hear first-hand as AWS partners and customers shared their cloud journeys. With the level of expertise in the room it was incredibly easy to draw inspiration from their experiences on how they have leveraged the cloud to innovate and digitally transform their businesses.
As the afternoon progressed and after a rather full itinerary that morning, it was great to have such an opportunity to network and have open discussion with a variety of business and entrepreneurs who also leverage the AWS discipline in their products and services.
One area that Anaeko utilises AWS cloud is within Data Platform Design and Delivery. Our data platform service provides architectural design and delivery of a modern, secure, scalable, resilient data hub on cloud, supporting secure data sharing for reporting and analytics, including business intelligence (BI) reporting and evidence-based decision making. This also includes the setup of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud data.
Our modular designs cater for data ingestion, transactions, convergence, enrichment and quality improvement. Our experts leverage cloud managed services, open-source frameworks and components, and commercial products to implement best-fit Data Lake, Warehouse and Lake-House for data hubs.
Data Platform Design and Delivery
Architectural design and delivery of a secure, scalable, resilient data-hub on cloud, supporting data ingestion, transactions, convergence, and secure sharing of data for reporting and analytics. Our experts leverage cloud managed services, open-source frameworks and components, and commercial products to implement best-fit Data Lake, Warehouse and Lake-House for data hubs.
Working within the technology industry there are some buzzwords which come up over and over again, current one being ‘Artificial Intelligence’.
Algorithms
Prediction machines use algorithms to predict the likelihood of X. For example, predicting the salary of an individual given information on their demographics, behaviour and cultural trends. By calculating the prediction accuracy of an event happening to a certain person, industry or trend, we gain further insight and can act accordingly. Prediction machines or models have many advantages. Although there is investment required to build these models, there are savings made intervening in a problem before it escalates. Public sector organisations can do this, but only if they can convene and analyse the datasets that might collectively point to cases of highest future risk.
If we take the example of three isolated departments; department for Education, the Police and the Department of Health & Social Care. If each department can collaborate and integrate their data, we would be able to predict various cases like individuals who are at risk of committing crime in the future, individuals who are vulnerable and individuals who are at risk of drug/alcohol abuse etc. By identifying the potential problem before it happens this has a domino effect in future years. The costs of intervening before an event, far outweighs the costs of intervening after the problem.
Predictive Policing
In January 2018, it was announced that Kanagawa, a Japanese prefecture, hoped to introduce predictive policing, when tackling crime before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This AI-based system would employ a ‘deep learning’ algorithm that allows the computer to teach itself by analysing big data. By gathering various data from different departments, they can use metrics on time, places, weather and geographical conditions to predict the likelihood of criminal offences taking place.
Technology Trends
The collection of data is crucial to all things predictive. Most departments are sitting on a pool of data that can facilitate prediction machines and automated processes. From Forbes top 5 technology trends in 2019, three of the five trends will require the utilisation of data to deliver the output.
Predictive Analytics in Healthcare
The healthcare industry produces and gathers a huge amount of data and this data has the potential to be used in predictive analytics modelling to help improve and forecast the demand on healthcare services. There are many ways in which predictive analytics could be used. Some companies are looking at forecasting hospital readmissions and others looking at predicting specific patient illnesses before they become serious.
Predictive analytics in medical imaging is set to have a big impact on cancer care too, says Anant Madabhushi. For pathologists, it will mean using predictive analytics to improve identification of specific things on images.
“Usually, we see AI algorithms that can detect a brain haemorrhage or a wrist fracture — a very narrow scope for single-use cases,” said Matthew Lungren, MD, MPH, assistant professor of radiology. “But here we’re talking about 14 different pathologies analyzed simultaneously, and it’s all through one algorithm.” (Source: Stanford Medicine)
Data Analytics and Insights
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Technology within healthcare has the potential to transform patient care and the health sector in many ways. The analysis of medical data can help gain insights and support decision-making by collecting data from a variety of areas such as medical costs, clinical data, patient behaviour and pharmaceuticals. Because healthcare data is so complex and can be difficult to process there are many barriers in place, but we want to explore the benefits of healthcare analytics and have a look at some examples of how data and machine learning are being used cross the healthcare industry.
Personalised patient care
Integrated care is a patient-centred model that aims to bring communication and co-ordination between patients, healthcare professional, and collaboration of care delivery even between separate organisations. With connected health, correct data processing and analytics guide medical professionals along a clinical pathway which could follow and support patients with personalised care. Further AI analysis of patient data, can further enhance the patients journey and efficiency of treatment.
“Patients whose doctors provided more patient-centric care by discussing their concerns, analysing their conditions in light of their broader health record and collaborating to find solutions, had 51.3 percent lower annual healthcare costs than those without.” (Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine)
Data analytics help health providers identify patterns and red flags that are not easily caught by manual processes. Some healthcare organisations are using big data to monitor hospital admissions in real-time, creating informative dashboards for medical professionals and pairing patients with the appropriate specialists (from Modern Healthcare).
Operational Efficiency
Across all industries operational efficiency through lean practices and data analytics have been adopted to become more streamline and cost-effective. For healthcare service providers predictive analytics and real-time data can help to understand admission and discharge rates to analyse staff efficiency for different numbers of patients at one time. Data analysis could influence healthcare to decrease waiting times, streamline emergency departments, or improve accuracy in administration departments.
A good example of data analysis and turning big data into dynamic reports, KPI reporting and dashboards, improving patient outcomes and reducing costs is the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Demah Al Shathri, Manager, Enterprise Reporting, comments:
“As we approach the pre-defined threshold for a particular measure—for example, waiting time in the ER department—the system automatically issues an alert, and the relevant decision-maker can drill down through the numbers to see where the problem lies. If we actually hit or exceed the threshold, there are separate escalated alerts for those events.”
By using information rich dashboards and reports the hospital decision makers can quickly decide on the best approach in any scenario.
Discovering the right medicine to cure diseases
By analysing large sets of data through machine learning and AI, drug discovering can become more accurate to treat individual patients. Data analysis can provide a view of correlations and hidden patterns within huge data sets like clinical trials and medical records. Predictive analytics could be used to test the effectiveness of a specific drug at treating a disease or illness.
An interesting example from Qrativ looks at combining “AI and Big Data to discover new purposes for drug treatments”.
“The AI platform triangulates easily between the scientific literature concerning existing drugs and other large sources information, like genome sequencing, in order to predict the efficiency of a drug in a data driven manner.”
Maintenance of Equipment
Healthcare service providers operate with a huge physical infrastructure and all machines must work effectively all the time. The Internet of Things could influence the healthcare sector offering a range of equipment to transmit data to central dashboards and reports to monitor status, performance, usage and faults with equipment.
A report from Harbor Research looks at “Machine Data Analytics Drives Innovation in Healthcare Market” and how todays’ tools are only scratching the surface of the value of complex machine data.
With these benefits, and many more, opportunities to improve patient care and reduce costs within the healthcare industry are growing but with some barriers like siloed working, problematic data conventions, sensitive data and patient preferences data analytics has yet to be fully utilised and relies on collaboration and information architecture for the entire industry to benefit.
Anaeko CTO, Colm Hayden is in Boston, Massachusetts this week attending this years Medtech conference by AdvaMed. Having worked on a number of projects in the health sector, this event provides a great opportunity to meet a number of innovators and market leaders in medical technology. To find out more about the confirmation, follow the link.
Data Analytics and Insights
A full data quality assessment, building a complete picture of your data landscape. Providing rapid proof of value, highlighting gaps and making recommendations on how to answer your most pressing questions. Our Data Analysts will perform statistical, geospatial and trend analysis to rapidly generate your reports and provide valuable insights.
Last night Anaeko attended this years INVENT Awards at the ICC Belfast, where we acted as corporate sponsors of the ‘Business Software’ category and had the absolute pleasure of presenting the award to this years winners ‘Thunder’.
The INVENT Awards are Northern Ireland’s premier competition for innovative start-ups to showcase their business acumen and budding entrepreneurial spirit.
Organised by science and technology hub Catalyst with headline partner Bank of Ireland, the annual INVENT Awards celebrate the brightest new business ideas with the greatest commercial potential from across the region.
Ten finalists were chosen to compete for the main prize at a showcase event in the ICC Belfast, with Vikela Armour taking home a prize package of £26,000 from the total prize fund of £50,000. Belfast-based engineering graduate Peter Gilleece set up Vikela Armour to develop a new type of body armour that provides better protection and comfort than conventional flak jackets.
As sponsors of the Business Software category at this years awards, Anaeko CTO Colm Hayden had the honour of presenting this category award to ‘Thunder’, an innovative new start-up founded by James McGrath and Matthew Finch. Thunder seeks to leverage innovation, by giving employees a platform to express their innovations and communicate these within large corporations.
As a company, we love to promote and engage with innovative enterprises at any level of development, to learn more about our services and how Anaeko could help your business grow! Complete the short form to the right of this article to get in contact!
