Up to 500 new jobs for 3Com premises

Up to 500 new jobs could be created over the next few years in the former 3Com premises in Blanchardstown Corporate Park if a unique project between a local voluntary group and a German multi-national comes to fruition.

Friendly Call Ltd., the Dublin 15 organisation that provides a telephone based support service for older people and people living at home, has concluded negotiations with Robert Bosch Healthcare GmbH for a joint venture project which will be based in the former 3Com premises. The proposal is now being considered by the IDA and final approval for the project is expected in the coming weeks.

Robert Bosch Healthcare GmbH, which is part of the international Bosch group, has pioneered a tele-health system which monitors the health of patients remotely though telecommunications systems. Using the resources of the Friendly Call Service it is now proposed to extend these systems and services to Ireland and to establish a Centre of Excellence for telehealth at the Blanchardstown premises.

Community Voice has seen the submission prepared by the Friendly Call Service which states that the new Centre’s focus will be on “the internationalisation of all activities through using Ireland as a centre for development, clinical evaluation and trials, quality systems accreditation and ultimately manufacturing and service provision. The new centre will target both service and product innovation.”

According to Danny Bell, manager of the Friendly Call Service, “we anticipate completing all negotiations by the end of March and would expect to have the facility up and running by August. This will involve the creation of 150 extra new jobs in the next three years with Friendly Call.”

It is understood that a further 200 new positions will be created in the new Centre of Excellence and that this could rise to 350 in the longer term. All of these new jobs will be located in the old 3Com premises in the IDA owned Blanchardstown Corporate Park.

Friendly Call is seen as an ideal partner for Bosch due to its existing service which provides daily telephone monitoring of over 1,700 clients.

Using the tele-health system, patients health can be monitored through sensors which capture and transmit the patient’s biometric data to a central medical assessment unit.

In its submission to the Government Robert Bosch Healthcare promotes telemonitoring/telehealth as “a highly effective way to expand the reach of the care management team, providing a bi-directional communication channel to augment care management systems.”

According to the company, “the Bosch Telehealth Solution engages patients in the process of managing their health and healthcare and connects them to their care management team.”

The company also pointed out that the system “has proven uniquely successful in enabling care-management that can reduce hospitalisation and post-acute services utilisation of individuals with conditions such as heart failure, complex diabetes and COPD as well as a wide range of other conditions and comorbidities.”

Over the past number of months representatives of Bosch have been involved in meetings with both the Government and the IDA and it is understood that a positive decision to give the go-ahead for these new jobs is imminent.

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