A unique initiative to revitalize innovation in Mental Health
“IMPACT – Mental Health Innovation Accelerator” aims to bring out solutions using innovative technologies and data to remedy disruptions in the Mental Health care pathway for young adults and adults. It revolves around a call for collaborative projects, partnership and open to e-health startups offering solutions around priority themes such as: access to care, support, follow-up and extra continuity. -hospital of patients.
The expected projects will have to create value on the mental health care pathways by providing answers, via their technology, to issues such as prevention, early detection, diagnosis, clinical strategy, city-hospital coordination, or even therapeutic wandering. This public / private partnership approach is a strong asset of the initiative. The meeting and collaboration between different actors is essential to bring about the emergence of a digital, competitive and attractive health sector capable of stimulating research in the field of mental health and of proposing innovative solutions at the service of patients.
The pandemic has amplified the challenges of Mental Health
« The health crisis weighed and still weighs on the mental health of all French people. In addition to the various mechanisms that we are putting in place to support them in this very special period, we must also encourage innovation in Mental Health via digital technology and artificial intelligence, through collaboration between private and public research. This in order to see new solutions emerge within the course of care. The launch of the IMPACT program – Mental Health Innovation Accelerator illustrates our desire to make Mental Health innovations attractive to entrepreneurs and thereby guarantee that they are quickly accessible to patients. » emphasizes Olivier Véran, Ministry of Solidarity and Health.
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