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Winner of the Enterprise Ireland ICT commercialisation award:
Dr. Gerard Lacey, Glanta Ltd. - winner of the Enterprise Ireland ICT commercialisation award.
Dr. Lacey is Co-founder, Director and Chief Technical Officer of Glanta Ltd. which is located in the Trinity Enterprise Centre. Gerry invented and developed the image processing IP which is at the heart of Glanta's hand hygiene training and assessment system.
The system provides health care professionals with repeatable, real-time objective feedback on the effectiveness of their hand hygiene technique compared to the widely accepted World Health Organisation (WHO) hand wash protocol.
The WHO have identified hand hygiene as the single most important factor in the spread of healthcare Acquired Infections, which in the US alone kills 100,00 people and costs US BN$35-45 annually.
Glanta is successful testing and trialling the Surewash system in a number of hospitals here and abroad, including the Mater Private Hospital.
As well as creating the IP, Gerry has been instrumental and directly involved in all of the above commercialisation activities, which is what makes him an exemplary winner of the Enterprise Ireland ICT Commercialisation Award for 2011.
For more information on Glanta Ltd. please contact Sally-Anne Fisher, TCD press office FISHERS@tcd.ie Tel: 353.1.896 3606
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