• François BRAUN, Minister of Health and Prevention
• Sylvie RETAILLEAU, Minister for Higher Education and Research,
• Saila RINNE, Head of Sector for policy in the unit "eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing", European Commission
• Raphaël BEAUFRET, Co-responsible for Digital Health, Ministry of Health and Prevention
• David SAINATI, Interministerial coordinator of the "Digital Health" acceleration strategy, Ministry of Health and Prevention

Innovators in digital healthcare need to be supported in their understanding of regulations and in carrying out their financing or marquage CE procedures. G_NIUS supports and facilitates this ambition.
It is also the reference point for the SASN, an ambitious government plan, which is part of the "Innovation Santé 2030" initiative. Digital health is one of France 2030's key sectors of the future.

The "Santé numérique" acceleration strategy has taken up a triple challenge:

• Associate the digital healthcare ecosystem with a broad consultation of its players.
• Accompany project leaders rapidly, thanks to 9 schemes, which have financed 61 winners to date, for a total committed amount of nearly 150 million euros.
• Engage these actions in a multi-year, systemic approach.

The event on November 21, 2022, in Lyon is an opportunity to celebrate together the successes of SASN and G_NIUS, following on from that of Station F in Paris on October 18, 2021.

• Announcement of the 16 winning consortia from waves 1 and 2 of the "Compétences et métiers d'avenir" call for expressions of interest, for a total of 36 million euros in aid.
• An increase of 48.4 million euros in the SASN budget earmarked for training in digital healthcare uses. In particular, the budget will enable 80% of learners in medical, paramedical and social training courses to be trained in these skills, i.e. a total of 100,000 learners per year.
• Launch of the "Santé numérique" Priority Research Program and Equipment (PEPR). Co-piloted by INSERM and INRIA, it is endowed with 60 million euros, to structure research players and help disruptive technologies emerge over the next five to ten years.
• Announcement of the first 10 winners of the "Tiers lieux d'expérimentation" call for projects to support innovation in digital healthcare with and for users.
• 15 first winners of the call for projects "Evaluation of the medical and/or economic benefit of digital or artificial intelligence-based medical devices", which has a budget of 20 million euros per year and is operated by Bpifrance. These projects support digital healthcare companies in assessing the clinical value of their innovations.
• Launch of a new €90 million call for projects dedicated to innovation in medical imaging to support the structuring of a French industry developing new image processing equipment and software for more accurate, earlier diagnoses and less invasive procedures.

Diagnostics with AI

• VitaDX international (VisioCyt 3D project): on urology oncology anatomopathology;
• Therapixel (Aurelia project): on oncology (breast cancer);
• Milvue (DAISI project): on rapid therapeutic guidance for intracranial aneurysm management;
• Abys Medical (Judet 4.0 project): on cloud computing.

Therapeutics/personalized medicine

• Exactcure (OncoTwin project):on digital twins and personalized medicine in oncology and chemotherapy;
• Tilak healtcare (REMODYME project):on personalized follow-up, remote monitoring, in the context of macular edema (ophthalmology).

Patient care evaluation & improvement platform

• Philips (SPECIALS project with Incepto, AP-HP and HCL ): on PACS platform & AI algorithm evaluation in real conditions with medical imaging;
• Withings (project @Hôtel-Dieu carrier Lifen with Nouveal e-santé, Withings, Implicity, Nabla, Digital Medical Hub, BioLabs, AP-HP and Université Paris-Cité): on the open AP-HP platform & connected objects for improved patient care.

Pitching during the plenary session with 4 winners:

• Maurice Hayot, ESNbyUM Laureate, Montpellier University:

The University of Montpellier is proposing to create a school of excellence with its partners: the "University of Montpellier School of Digital Health - ESNbyUM". Strongly supported by the Occitanie Region, the ESNbyUM will be the foundation of the region's Pôle d'Excellence en Santé Numérique, working in synergy with all players in the field - academics, healthcare and medical-social establishments, companies and local authorities. ESNbyUM will thus be an innovative interdisciplinary, interprofessional and inclusive model, open to the worlds of healthcare, research and business, and based on the original concept of "precision pedagogy"

• Corneliu MALCIU, OncoLab Laureate, Arkhn:

The project aims to make oncology data from healthcare institutions accessible for research and innovation. Stored data will be standardized, structured, and studied in a synchronized way thanks to multi-modal interoperability reference architectures.

• Nicolas Castoldi, Executive Director of the @Hôtel-Dieu initiative at AP-HP:

The @Hôtel-Dieu Platform Project is a new kind of project and partnership between five French start-ups - Lifen, Implicity, Nabla, Nouveal and Withings - Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Paris Cité, who will develop, hand in hand, over the next 3 years a universal remote patient monitoring platform. The project has been awarded €17 million in state funding, managed by Bpifrance as part of the future investment program. Operational work, from clinical studies to the platform's technical base, has already begun.

• Dr Maximilien Autheman, DiPRU project winner, Resilience company & Pr Jean-Christophe BERNHARD, PU-PH, CHU Bordeaux:

The DiPRU project assesses the economic and medical interest of By relying on the French Network UroConnect medical device for perioperative support in urology. Based on the French Kidney Cancer Research Network UroCCR, the impact of UroConnect digitalized coordination of renal surgery pathways will be studied, integrating patient, caregiver and societal perspectives.

Honored winners:

On the occasion of SASN's 1-year anniversary, 61 entities are now winners of 6 calls for projects or calls for expressions of interest under SASN:

• Appel à projets Concours i-Nov, santé numérique : this competition of excellence is dedicated to innovative single-partner projects led by startups and SMEs and leading to the accelerated emergence of leading companies in their field that can aspire in particular to global scale;
• i-Démo, santé numérique call for projects: it aims to develop industrial and service companies in growth markets, creating value and competitiveness for our economy and contributing to energy, ecological and digital transitions;
• Call for third-party experimentation projects : it is designed to fund third-party places to address the lack of experimentation sites for the digital health sector;
• Appel à manifestation d'intérêt "Santé numérique": a call for expressions of interest that was a precursor to the strategy, it fed into the construction of the strategy and helped identify the players involved and gather their project proposals across France;
• Appel à manifestation d'intérêt "Compétences et Métiers d'avenir": it aims to set up digital health modules in initial training courses and increase the number of specialists.

There is great diversity among the winners, who can be either companies (SMEs, ETIs, multinationals), or research and teaching institutes (universities, schools,...), or hospital centers. Projects can be carried out as part of a consortium or as a single partner.