Innovator's toolbox
From idea to deployment: find the right tools, at the right time, to help your solution grow!
🔍 Explore & Understand
🎯 What we explore at this stage
- Identify a real need
- Create personas
- Conduct a field study
- Benchmark other solutions
- Understand the ecosystem and initial regulatory issues
🧰 Useful G_NIUS tools at this stage :
- 10 questions to get you started
- Overview of the ecosystem via Fact sheets to discover potential partners, support structures...
- Anticipate changes in the sector with the Digital Health Roadmap
⚒️ Design & Validate
🎯 What we explore at this stage
- Formalize a value proposition
- Create an MVP / prototype
- Have the solution tested (user feedback)
- Anticipate RGPD, interoperability, cybersecurity
- Determine whether the product is a medical device
🧰 G_NIUS tools useful at this point:
- Regulatory Fact sheets (RGPD, INS, CI-SIS, HDS)
- Regulatory diagnostic - "Is my solution a DM?" (key tool for finding out whether it's a DM or not).
- 4 questions to prepare my DM for the market
- Guided tours: INS, Mon espace santé, national ROR
🧩 Structuring the project
🎯 What we explore at this stage
- Building a viable business model
- Identify partners
- Determine 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 subsidies)
- Which financing, for which functionality (targeted functionalities)
- 4 questions to anticipate DM reimbursement
- Reimbursement Fact sheets (including remote monitoring, PECAN)
🧪 Development & Compliance
🎯 What we're exploring at this stage
- Finalize technical development
- Drafting and compiling the regulatory file
- Deploy best practices (RGPD, cybersecurity, interoperability)
- Initiate CE marking or HAS dossier if necessary
🧰 G_NIUS tools useful at this time :
- INS guided path
- Regulatory diagnosis
- Regulatory Fact sheets (RGPD, security, CI-SIS, etc.)
- PECAN guided path for anticipatory management
- Remote monitoring solution reimbursement guided pathway
🚀 Deploy & Upgrade
🎯 What we explore at this stage
- Launch a field pilot
- Monitor usage/impact indicators
- Integrate into healthcare information systems (DMP, INS)
- Adapt solution to scale (territory, hospital, patients)
🧰 G_NIUS tools useful at this time :
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G_NIUS : La Boîte à Outils des Startups en Santé - Accelerate your Innovation
Are you a startup or an innovative company in the healthcare sector? Are you developing e-health, medtech, healthtech or artificial intelligence solutions? G_NIUS, the Guichet National de l'Innovation et des Usages en e-Santé, has been designed to support you.
This platform, run by the French Ministerial Delegation for Digital Health and the French Digital Health Agency, facilitates support for 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 French healthcare sector means overcoming complex challenges: regulations, market access, financing, understanding the key players and connecting with healthcare professionals and patients.
G_NIUS centralizes all the essential resources in its toolbox to guide you step by step through your development:
- Understanding regulatory issues (CE marking, medical devices, clinical trials)
- Identify the right funding for your project (BPI, region, France 2030)
- Make contact with healthcare professionals, providers and public institutions
- Make better use of healthcare data within a secure and ethical framework
- Accelerate your digital transition and time-to-market
Solutions for all types of innovative projects
The platform adapts to all types of innovation projects:
Digital health applications :
- Mobile health applications
- Mental health solutions
- Telemedicine
Advanced medical technologies :
- Connected objects
- Connected medical devices
- Diagnostic tools
- Artificial intelligence solutions applied to healthcare
Financing and support for healthcare startups
G_NIUS facilitates access to funding for healthcare startups by listing all available assistance. Entrepreneurs can quickly identify subsidies, calls for projects and financing schemes adapted to their sector of activity.
Bpifrance, a major partner of G_NIUS, supports startups through specialized schemes such as the Bourse French Tech or funding dedicated to digital medical devices. Data show that the French healthtech sector represents over 2,600 companies.
Artificial intelligence and digital transition
Artificial intelligence is profoundly transforming the healthcare sector, opening up new perspectives for diagnosing, treating and monitoring patients. French startups are developing innovative applications using healthcare data to improve medical treatment and optimize care paths.
G_NIUS now includes a chatbot based on artificial intelligence to guide users through the process.
A network of players in 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 fosters 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're in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Bordeaux or Nantes. The platform supports you with up-to-date tools, in line with 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, go from idea to impact.