Private Healthcare Conference in Ireland

Strengthening Cross-Border Healthcare Through Digital Innovation

healthStay was proud to return home to Ireland to participate in the Investnet Private Healthcare Conference in Barberstown Castle — a gathering that brought together senior leaders, clinicians, innovators, and policymakers shaping the future of healthcare across the island.

For healthStay, the event was not only an opportunity to share insights, but to reinforce a growing focus on cross-border healthcare between Ireland and Northern Ireland. This is an area where digital infrastructure can remove barriers, streamline patient journeys, and support hospitals on both sides of the border.

💡 Transforming Cross-Border Healthcare With Better Infrastructure

During the conference, healthstay highlighted how fragmented workflows, manual data entry, and repetitive administrative tasks currently slow down hospitals and patient access — particularly in cross-border schemes.

healthstay’s platform addresses these challenges by:

• 🔄 Automating manual data entry for providers

• 🔗 Creating a seamless hospital ↔ patient communication flow

• 🧾 Streamlining booking, documentation, and pre-travel processes

• 🏥 Allowing hospitals to stay focused on care, not paperwork

• 😊 Helping patients stay informed, at ease, and supported throughout their journey

This digital backbone is already transforming how hospitals in the UAE manage international patients — and the same infrastructure can support Ireland’s evolving cross-border healthcare pathways.

Private Healthcare Conference in Ireland

🏛 Key Themes From the Conference

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD spoke about:

• The upcoming digitalisation of Irish public hospitals

• How private hospitals are already leading the way in innovation

• The importance of modern infrastructure for improving patient outcomes

These themes strongly align with healthStay’s mission to build scalable, efficient digital systems that support both providers and patients.

Across the day, discussions emphasised:

• The urgency of reducing waiting lists

• The potential of AI and automation to save clinical time

• The role of collaboration between public, private, and industry partners

• The opportunity for Ireland to adopt smarter, more connected healthcare workflows

🤝 Networking, Collaboration & Shared Ambition

The conference provided valuable time with:

• Mark Regan

• Joanne McNeill and the Kingsbridge Healthcare Group team

• Ruth Scott, Kingsbridge Healthcare Group

• The Investnet organising team, including David Neville and Bill Maher

Their commitment to innovation and improving healthcare delivery across the island continues to set the standard for transformation in Ireland.

🌍 Looking Ahead

As healthstay expands across the UAE and the wider MENA region, reconnecting with the Irish healthcare community reinforces the global relevance of the problem we are solving.

Healthcare systems everywhere face the same challenges — manual processes, inefficient communication, and rising demand from international patients.

By providing hospitals with modern digital infrastructure, healthStay is helping create faster, more transparent, and more patient-centred care pathways, domestically and internationally.

A sincere thank you to HealthTech Ireland and Investnet for having us. On to the next opportunity to collaborate and innovate. ☘️