The Inside Story

Helping Hospital CEOs achieve intellectual property (IP) generated revenue,operational efficiencies and patient care improvements

Hospital Intellectual Property Group LtdSmarter Hospitals. Better Patient CarePO Box 4040, Royal North Shore Hospital LPO, St Leonards, 2065, Sydney NSWPh: (02) 8003 4440 Fax: 02 9225 9424 Email: Deborah.Kuchler@HospitalIPGroup.orgABN 66071137043 ACN 0711374043

Do you know how to realise significant benefits from your hospital’s intellectual property?

We’ve handled more than 10,000 beneficial intellectual property projects involving IP productisation, commercialisation and industry partnerships worth more than $2 billion

If not, don’t worry…

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ABOUT US

The hospital intellectual property group are an authority on hospital intellectual property (IP) and its value. We provide services to convert hospital-owned IP into patient care improvements, operational efficiencies and revenue.

We recognise that IP is abundant in workplaces comprising staff with technical knowledge and specialised skills. We provide a system for capitalising on valuable ideas and knowledge for the benefit of the patient, the hospital and its extensive health services. Our IP Management System prevents loss of valuable hospital IP and manages any potential litigation risks associated with uncontrolled IP.

Our Hospital IP Group team are specialists in the collection, assessment, productisation and distribution of all types of hospital IP, including educational products, digital and software products, knowledge services, medical devices, social media apps, trademarks, inventions from research discovery and process innovations.

We increase IP awareness amongst hospital staff and researchers with our regular hospital IP training courses, a monthly educational newsletter (see attached) and our annual conference. Our courses are free for hospital staff to attend. We hold an annual conference called “The BRILLIANT Conference - Brilliant Minds and Bright Ideas”, to raise awareness and educate the sector about the importance of IP returns for improving beneficial outcomes.

Our operations, Hospital IP NSW, Hospital IP ACT, Hospital IP VIC and Hospital IP QLD together form the Hospital Intellectual Property Group Ltd.

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INSIGHT INTO OUR WORK

EXOFLEX Rehabilitation Glove

Hospital IP management holds huge potential to benefit hospitals to improve their patient outcomes, staff efficiency and create additional revenue streams.

However, successful IP management and innovation commercialisation requires thorough knowledge and systemisation.

We’re intellectual property experts and our team has a combined total of more than 100 years of hospital sector experience.

In 2004, three inventors from Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD), Dr Peter Abolfathi, Dr Tim Scott & Ms Veronica Vare created the Rehabilitation Glove. The glove is a new type of advanced hand therapy and assessment device, which will play an important role in rehabilitation after hand surgery or trauma.The device is currently shortlisted for the 2016 National Disability Awards.

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Existing devices are often bulky, immobile and offer only all-or-nothing movement, moving all digits at the same time to the same degree with the same force.

Hospital IP NSW lead the project through all stages of IP filing and prosecution, prototyping, external commercial partnering and pre-market development. In 2007, Hospital IP NSW on behalf of NSLHD, licensed the technology underlying the rehabilitation glove and its commercialisation to Bes Rehab Ltd in Bristol, England. It is estimated that Bes Rehab have invested more than $7 million in further R&D, product design tests and commercial trials to produce the “EXOFLEX Glove.”

In order to take the product to market, BesRehab have created the technology company Health Innovations Australia (HIA) Pty Ltd as its subsidiary. HIA has used a multidisciplinary team to develop EXOFLEX, including Dr. Peter Abolfathi, a co-inventor whose PhD studies centered around the EXOFLEX.

EXOFLEX is named because it is an exoskeleton that allows the fingers to extend and flex. Not only is it mobile and allows movement of individual digits, but it introduces telemedicine to hand therapy by recording therapist-directed outcomes of therapy regimes.

A prototype was showed at an international conference for hand surgeons and therapists in Delhi, March 2013 and the Australian Hand Therapy Conference in October 2013. The HIA team was overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response from health care practitioners at both conferences.

The development path has been long and not without challenges. Early proto-types were given to a select group of therapists and HIA has taken the feedback from this exercise and will replace those prototypes with advanced, fully engineered versions in the coming months. Parts of the EXOFLEX glove have gone into production and is expected to be complete by the end by the end of 2014.

Sale of the ExoFlex Glove is pending the certification of the device by the TGA, CE and FDA. Depending on the certification, the EXOFLEX Glove will be on sale between one and three months after production.

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NicuCamParents of babies admitted to the neonatal care unit often experience feelings of stress and anxiety when family and work commitments require that they be separated from their baby.

NicuCam provides remote viewing of individual babies via a secure website, so that parents who are unable to be by the bedside can view live video images of their baby from 6am - 10pm.

Hospital IP ACT on behalf of ACT Health has helped the inventor, Associate Professor Zsuzsoka Kecskes to develop and commercialise NicuCam and make it a reality, by advising on a development and commercialisation plan and implementing it. ADTEC Technologies have now modernised the system and it is ready for commercial sale.

The Canberra Hospital is currently the only user of the system but it is anticipated that there will be other users before the end of 2016. The video stream will only be available to parents who have signed an Image Transfer Consent form and have been allocated a unique username and password. Once logged in, parents will be able to view images of their own baby streaming live from the nursery.

Webcam technology has been successfully implemented in NICUs overseas, however, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Centenary Hospital for Women and Children will be the first neonatal intensive care unit in Australia to introduce this type of service for parents.

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myShift

Inspiration struck Mr Laurence Ioannou, a NSW Ambulance paramedic and a fellow colleague when they noticed the need for a simpler, faster system for managing shift changes, including overtime and shift swaps at NSW Ambulance.

Before long, myShift was born. MyShift is a web-based tool used for shift swaps and acts as a plaftform for shiftwork employees to advertise their ability for overtime shifts. It also helps management calculate employees’ allocated overtime hours.

The system can be used in conjunction with existing rostering systems within an organisation, making it easy for organisations to enhance their shift management system without needing to replace an entire system.

The successful implementation of myShift has brought great value to NSW Ambulance who are keen to share these benefits to others through a software license arrangement.

Mr Ioannou and other innovators noted in the Record of Invention will share a proportion of commercialisation revenue with NSW Ambulance in accordance with the NSW Health IP Policy.

Hospital IP NSW worked with NSW Ambulance to evaluate the technology and develop a go to market plan.

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eASY – Electronic Antibiotic Stewardship System

eASY is an electronic antibiotic stewardship system to manage antibiotics in a hospital across various departments. It was first launched in 2011 with great success and is currently being used and implemented across all hospitals within Northern Sydney Local Health District and Murrumbidgee Local Health District. It is implemented across six other Australian Health jurisdictions with the Gold Coast Health Service being the latest instalation.

The system provides decision support, as it can assist with suggestions for the correct antibiotic medicine based on the patient’s symptoms and previous medical history. All medical professionals involved are notified when changes to the patient’s care are made and when the status of an antibiotic order changes. This allows for greater efficiency when a number of healthcare professionals are working on a single patient.

After 3 years in the market, eASY has undergone a complete redevelopment to ensure it is up to speed with the most cutting edge eHealth technology. The new and improved eASY 2.0 has been optimized for new browsers, iPads, pagers and mobile phones, has more versatile scheduling options and many new time saving features for work flow improvements. An eASY App. has also been developed.

For more information or to enquire about a trial of eASY, please contact: Noman Masood, Director of Pharmacy, Northern Beaches Health Service on 0404 038 203.

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OUR EDUCATION & NETWORKING INITIATIVES

Hospital IP Community on Social Media

Free IP Short Courses

Intellectual property education is essential for all hospital staff to help prevent IP disappearing and to maximise the potential of innovative ideas within the workplace.

By educating staff they are more likely to recognise an idea as potential IP and address it properly by speaking to our team. We also educate researchers about publishing and sharing their research before patents have been applied for, a common IP pitfall, which can place potential patents in jeopardy.

We deliver a series of regular short courses which are free for hospital staff to attend which cover elements of IP management. The courses are currently held in NSW, ACT and QLD. An example of our NSW courses are in the attachments section.

Basic IP education continues one-on-one with our educational Hospital IP Community blog and through interactions with health staff who post questions online. Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn for updates from the industry and our work. Join the conversation with a comment or Tweet @hipcommunity or on our Hospital IP QLD LinkedIn Company Page.

Our education initiatives ensure that great ideas are recognised more often, receive the support they need and are protected from IP theft. This service is an integral part of our work with hospitals.

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AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND HOSPITAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONFERENCE 2015We hold an annual Australia & New Zealand Hospital Intellectual Property Conference now rebadged “Brilliant Minds and Bright Ideas Conference” to bring together hospital staff, managers, researchers and industry experts.

Our 2015 conference was a great success, with more than 200 attendees listening to sessions from fourteen speakers from Australia and New Zealand. Topics included crucial legal tips for protecting IP to exciting, new innovations across Australia and New Zealand that are shaping healthcare.

Professors, hospital staff, lawyers, staff from biotechnology firms and medical students made up the diverse audience, which was full of questions after every presentation.

PICTURED: Stella Ward, Executive Director of Allied Health at Canterbury District Health Board (NZ) and Gavin Andrews AO, MD, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, Professor of Psychiatry at UNSW

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1. Identify intellectual property

We will work with you to apply our system which determines what IP you own or use in your business.

2. Assess your rights for each piece of IP

You can’t receive economic benefits from IP that you don’t own. For each piece of intellectual property, our team will determine whether you own the IP or if you do not own it, whether you have adequate rights to the IP.

Our team has significant expertise in managing jointly owned IP and has a simple system for determining and asserting jointly owned IP. In the case that you do not own the IP, we will determine whether your IP is protected in relation to your staff and contractors and whether there are any restrictions on your ability to use the IP.

3. Generate reports

We will summarise our findings in a report that will detail your company’s IP inventory and include recommendations for protecting further IP and any other areas of concern.

Do you need an IP Audit?What is an IP Audit?

In the case that you don’t own the IP

Why do you need one?

How it works

Similar to a stock audit, an IP audit is an important business management tool. An IP audit takes inventory of your hospital’s owned IP and highlights areas where you have rights to unprotected IP. An IP audit equips decision makers with the necessary information to protect an organisation’s IP.

You cannot realise the economic (including patient care) benefit of intellectual property if you do not own it. Unmanaged IP is not only a source of missed potential for your organisation, but a potential risk. We have many examples of legal issues and lost revenue based on poorly managed IP.

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GET IN TOUCH

If you are interested in how our team can assist your hospital’s intellectual property management, please get in touch with

Dr Deborah Kuchler Executive Chairman

M 0418 726 622 E Deborah.Kuchler@hospitalipgroup.org

Hospital Intellectual Property Group LtdSmarter Hospitals. Better Patient CarePO Box 4040, Royal North Shore Hospital LPO, St Leonards, 2065, Sydney NSWPh: (02) 8003 4440 Fax: 02 9225 9424 Email: Deborah.Kuchler@HospitalIPGroup.orgABN 66071137043 ACN 0711374043

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