UCD research team wins Google healthcare award

A leading Irish researcher and his team have landed a major Google award for their rehabilitation-support technology having beaten off competition from scores of entries.

University College Dublin (UCD) connected health researcher Brian Caulfield won the 2015 Google Wearables in Healthcare Pilot Challenge at the tech giant’s Cambridge headquarters in Boston.

The innovative technology developed at UCD allows patients recovering from orthopaedic surgery transition into life at home more easily by giving them a simple and cost-effective solution to rehabbing outside of hospital.