Innovator's Toolbox
From idea to deployment: find the right tools at the right time to grow your solution!
🔍 Explore & Understand
🎯 What we explore at this stage
- Identify a real need
- Create personas
- Conduct field research
- Benchmark other solutions
- Understanding the ecosystem and initial regulatory issues
🧰 Useful G_NIUS tools at this stage:
- 10 questions to get your project started
- Overview of the ecosystem via fact sheets to discover potential partners, support structures, etc.
- Anticipate developments in the sector with the Digital Health Roadmap
⚒️ Design & Validate
🎯 What we explore at this stage
- Formalize a value proposition
- Create an MVP/prototype
- Testing the solution (user feedback)
- Anticipate GDPR, interoperability, cybersecurity
- Determine whether the product is a medical device
🧰 G_NIUS tools useful at this stage:
- Regulatory fact sheets (GDPR, INS, CI-SIS, HDS)
- Regulatory diagnosis - "Is my solution a MD?" (key tool for determining whether or not it is a MD)
- 4 questions to prepare for the marketing of my MD
- Guided tours: INS, Mon espace santé, National ROR
🧩 Structuring the project
🎯 What we explore at this stage
- Building a viable business model
- Identifying partners
- Determining financing needs
- Preparing a development plan
🧰 Useful G_NIUS tools at this stage:
- My product, my financing (simulator)
- Aides Territoires (search engine for local/regional/national grants)
- What financing for what functionality (targeted functionalities)
- 4 questions to anticipate DM reimbursement
- Reimbursement fact sheets (including remote monitoring, PECAN)
🧪 Develop & Ensure Compliance
🎯 What we are exploring at this stage
- Finalizing technical development
- Drafting and compiling the regulatory dossier
- Implement best practices (GDPR, cybersecurity, interoperability)
- Initiate CE marking or HAS dossier procedures if necessary
🧰 G_NIUS tools useful at this stage:
- INS guided tour
- Regulatory diagnosis
- Regulatory fact sheets (GDPR, security, CI-SIS, etc.)
- PECAN guided tour for early coverage
- Guided tour of reimbursement for remote monitoring solutions
🚀 Deploy & Evolve
🎯 What we are exploring at this stage
- Launch a field pilot
- Monitor usage/impact indicators
- Integrating into healthcare information systems (DMP, INS)
- Adapt the solution to scale (region, hospital, patients)
🧰 G_NIUS tools useful at this stage:
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G_NIUS: The Toolbox for Healthcare Startups - Accelerate Your Innovation
Are you a startup or innovative company in the health sector? Are you developing solutions in e-health, medtech, healthtech, or integrating artificial intelligence? G_NIUS, the National Center for Innovation and Uses in e-Health, was designed to support you.
This platform, led by the Ministerial Delegation for Digital Health and the Digital Health Agency, facilitates support for health startups and companies in the digital health sector in France.
A Complete Ecosystem at the Service of Innovators
Why is G_NIUS essential for your startup?
Innovating in the healthcare sector in France means tackling complex challenges: regulations, market access, financing, understanding key players, and connecting with healthcare professionals and patients.
G_NIUS's toolbox brings together all the resources you need to guide you step by step through your development:
- Understanding regulatory issues (CE marking, medical devices, clinical trials)
- Identifying the right financing for the stage of your project (BPI, region, France 2030)
- Connect with healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, or public institutions
- Make better use of health data in a secure and ethical framework
- Accelerate your digital transition and market launch
Solutions for All Types of Innovative Projects
The platform can be adapted to all types of innovation projects:
Digital health applications:
- Mobile health applications
- Mental health solutions
- Telemedicine
Advanced medical technologies:
- Connected devices
- Connected medical devices
- Diagnostic tools
- Artificial intelligence solutions applied to healthcare
Financing and support for healthcare startups
G_NIUS facilitates access to financing for health startups by listing all available aid. Entrepreneurs can quickly identify grants, calls for projects, and financing mechanisms tailored to their sector of activity.
Bpifrance, a major partner of G_NIUS, supports startups through specialized programs such as the French Tech Grant and financing dedicated to digital medical devices. Data shows that the French healthtech sector represents more than 2,600 companies. Artificial
Intelligence and Digital Transition
Artificial intelligence is profoundly transforming the healthcare sector, offering new perspectives for diagnosis, treatment, and patient follow-up. French startups are developing innovative applications that leverage health data to improve medical care and optimize care pathways.
G_NIUS now includes an AI-based chatbot to guide users through the process.
A Network of Players for the Healthcare Ecosystem
The G_NIUS ecosystem brings together all the key players in healthcare innovation:
- Public institutions
- Research centers
- Healthcare professionals
- Investors and companies
- Hospital teams
- Laboratories and researchers
- Silver Economy Structures
This networking promotes collaboration between startups, research teams, and industry professionals, creating an environment conducive to the emergence of innovative solutions.
National Coverage and Impact
G_NIUS is aimed at all French Tech startups, whether you are based in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, or Nantes. The platform supports you with up-to-date tools tailored to the challenges facing the French healthcare system and patients.
Millions of euros have already been mobilized to support innovative healthcare projects. Why not yours?
With G_NIUS, turn your idea into impact.
G_NIUS simplifies the daily lives of digital health innovators by drawing on an active community and resources, events, and services dedicated to the success of their digital health projects.