Health is a major geopolitical issue and the health crisis is only the archetype. In this field, e-health is a complex foundation that can have implications for competitiveness, sovereignty and international cooperation. If, France does not lack start-ups in this field, few are those which manage to integrate the hospital. That’s the whole point you program HIIT whose 24 winners were announced at the show MedInTechs which was held in Paris.
Co-built by La French Tech Grand-Paris and the Digital Medical Hub – the first platform for the analysis and evaluation of connected health objects – the bootcamp will take place at the beginning of April in emblematic places of e-health in France: the Hôtel-Dieu, PariSanté Campus et Future4care.
Know the ecosystem and the potential for adopting the solutions
To offer a bootcamp that meets the needs of e-health players, the French Tech Grand-Paris and the DMH have identified five obstacles to the adoption of solutions: access to the market, regulatory constraints, working with the prescriber and user, financing and finally integration into the ecosystem.
Lasting five days, the bootcamp was designed to remove one brake per day. “Each day is dedicated to a problem. The mornings are theoretical with a thirty-minute flash conference and a two-hour masterclass. The afternoons are reserved for practice with the arrival of an armada of prescribers who will intervene “one to one” with startups to assess – depending on their innovation and their stage of development – the potential for adoption. of their tool and the way they should work with the hospital.” explain Lucas Thiery, strategic director and co-founder of the Digital Medical Hub.
Throughout the week, theThe laureates will discuss with high-ranking speakers such as Elisabeth Dion, head of the radiology department at the Hôtel Dieuby Franck Le Ouay, the founder of Life – which allows the exchange of data between hospitals – or even Yacine Tanjaoui-Lambiotte, director of pneumology and infectiology in Saint-Denis who has planted many subjects in e-health. “To ensure that entrepreneurs and caregivers understand each other perfectly, students from the Sorbonne who are preparing for the “E-health and digital transformation” diploma are called upon. They will popularize the words of the two stakeholders”, explains Charlotte Jestin, completing the words of Lucas Thiery :” Startups that operate in the e-health sector sometimes have a biased image of the hospital and for good reason, they have never set foot there. They arrive with use cases that are sometimes beyond reality. The program allows the start-up to get feedback from a doctor in the field who will think about aspects that the engineer – however gifted he may be – had not thought of. In addition, it makes it possible to make an address book available to entrepreneurs so that they can subsequently contact the right people according to their subject. Having these people on your board means having the assurance of seeing many doors open.”
Refine your value proposition with the help of a juggernaut
To compensate for the lack of medical time in the emergency services and the lack of information about the availability of city doctors, H24carewinner of the first promotion of the HIIT program, offers an automated web solution that relieves congestion in an emergency department by redirecting non-priority patients to community medicine with an appointment within 24 hours.
For the start-up, being able to exchange with this key player in the French ecosystem, AP-HP, is a real opportunity, especially since the role of the group in research and innovation no longer needs to be proven. “The AP-HP is the leading European hospital group, a particularly complicated juggernaut to integrate. The HIIT program will allow us to be able to present our solution to obtain feedback on their technical and technological expectations and possibly identify areas for improvement so that we can then deploy it to this group as efficiently as possible.” explain Zahime Rai, founder of H24care.
Lucas Thiery, had the opportunity to meet the founder of H24care, a year and a half ago when she presented the tool to the emergency services of Saint-Joseph hospital in Paris. The strategic director and co-founder of the Digital Medical Hub has no doubts about the benefit that the startup will derive from the bootcamp. “H24care has evolved, but sticking points remain. They are linked to a lack of connection between H24care and the healthcare ecosystem. At the end of the program, they will have been able to meet emergency physicians, refine their value proposition, their use case, their business model. H24care will not have solved all its problems in a week, but will know how and with whom to continue to work so that it can deploy a solution that will have a real impact on the emergency department and patients.”
