The French digital health sector intends to accelerate. On Tuesday, French Tech Grand Paris and the Digital Medical Hub, AP-HP’s clinical research platform on connected objects and their mobile healthcare applications, announced the upcoming rollout of a free support program to help start- up to grow.
Start-up of coaches
Entitled “HIIT”, for “Health Innovation Intensive Training”, this first edition will allow the 20 selected companies to benefit from the advice, expertise and network of the entire ecosystem, for one week in April. “Bringing together the good fairies of e-health to look into the cradle of the young shoots”, summarizes Nicolas Castoldi, executive director of the Hôtel-Dieu initiative at AP-HP and sponsor of the program, together with Clara Chappaz, director of the French Tech mission.
The call is open. To hope to be able to join the first promotion, start-ups must be French (preferably established in the Paris region) and be in a pre-clinical stage, but with a “high nuisance potential”. This program is intended for pharmaceutical or medtech companies only. The list of shortlisted startups will be unveiled at the MedInTechs trade show, taking place on March 13-14.
Acceleration strategy
When it comes to innovation, we cannot be satisfied with a “Cruise speed”, said the Minister of Health, François Braun, in November, when the government announced a new allocation of 48.4 million euros as part of the strategy for the acceleration of digital health, from France 2030.
If this announcement has focused on training issues, and in particular on the appropriation of digital uses by professionals, the support of French croquettes has not been left out. The ministers present had thus unveiled fifteen projects that will be financially supported in the clinical trial phases, often very expensive, but still indispensable. 11.3 million has been put on the table by Bpifrance to carry out this mission.
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