The pharmaceutical laboratory Sanofi, the insurer Generali and the technology companies Orange and Capgemini announce the creation of a digital ecosystem around data sharing in Paris in order to develop new healthcare solutions.
Investment of 24 million euros
The four founders are planning an initial investment of 24 million euros. The initiative must lead to the development of concrete solutions to build the health of tomorrow, from the idea to making it available to patients or health professionals. The project revolves more particularly around the sharing of data.
Decades of data from insurer Generali will be available
-« The insurance business works statistically from a large volume of anonymized data and a history of several decades that can be made available to startups to fuel their research into solutions. »Announces Jean-Laurent Granier, Chairman and CEO of Generali France and Chairman of the Europ Assistance Group.
« This project is the cornerstone of the open ecosystem around digital and health data that we want to build with our partners »Says Paul Hudson, CEO of Sanofi. ” Our motivation in this alliance is to participate in an innovative and powerful ecosystem that contributes to modeling the health of the future and to finding new technological solutions and innovative services for patients. »Adds Jean-Laurent Granier.
Bring together expertise around a digital platform and a physical location
The objective is to bring together the best French and European scientific and technological expertise, via a digital platform and a physical location in Paris. The digital platform is expected for June 2021. The physical platform should be available in December 2021. This new ecosystem will bring together the 4 founding companies and will aim to federate large partner groups and startups at European level, around an approach of ‘open-innovation in order to bring out new disruptive models.
The 4 companies will pool their technologies, expertise and data with startups
-Developments may relate to a technology, a pathology, a patient population or a public health subject. The 4 founding companies will pool their technologies, expertise and data with selected startups. This aims to support the implementation of digital solutions that will improve the quality, safety, accessibility and productivity of healthcare. The founding companies are already announcing a multidisciplinary approach embodied by a hundred French and European startups, players in health, technology and insurance, as well as public and private hospitals, patient associations, regulators as well as schools and universities.
The project will be run on an online platform centered around an institute whose main mission will be to bring together experts, institutions, schools, universities and hospitals around the challenges of the use of data and digital tools in the field. of health. The platform will also be the entry point for interactions between founders, partners and startups to launch hackathons, initiate competitions, share data and expertise while respecting and ethical regulations.
A creative laboratory, a Data Lab, a Fab Lab and a Living Lab
This ecosystem will be located in the heart of Paris. It will include a creative laboratory, a Fab Lab, a Data Lab and a Living Lab in which patients and healthcare professionals can develop, test, adjust and evaluate solutions as well as an ethical and economic laboratory. It will complement the PariSanté Campus project, which aims to structure and federate a digital health sector with global reach, open to national and international partnerships.
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