Tiers-lieu: ACCES CVL
Lead Partner: CHRU TOURS
Key consortium members: Orléans University Hospital, University of Tours, University of Orléans, the VYV3 Centre-Val de Loire mutual insurance union, the Centre-Val de Loire Regional Health Agency, the Healthcare Loire Valley association, and the Atlanpole Biotherapies competitiveness cluster.
TLE Overview: ACCES CVL serves as a single regional gateway to simplify and accelerate the emergence of innovations by promoting the coordination of care, as well as innovations targeting communication disorders, for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
ACCES CVL - Improving Coordination and Communication in Healthcare in the Centre-Val de Loire Region
8
leading local players in healthcare and innovation who complement one another and have a history of collaboration
16,000
healthcare and support professionals who are available
more than 2 million
potential beneficiaries per year
Le Tiers lieu offre ses services
The TLE offers a range of services to help project leaders experiment, conduct real-world evaluations, and grow their businesses:
- A single, easily identifiable point of entry for industry partners, designed to facilitate project leaders’ access to domain expertise, support services, and relevant on-the-ground partners.
- A wide range of turnkey services to accelerate the development of technologies tailored to challenges in care coordination and communication disorders, particularly regarding digital accessibility, thereby addressing project leaders’ specific challenges in alignment with user needs, such as: Matching needs to the market / Co-design of pilot projects / Business model support / Project engineering support / Real-world solution evaluation / Human subject research.
- Solution providers supported by the TLE may also benefit from support services to facilitate market access, including protection of results (patents), CE marking applications, reimbursement requests, as well as marketing support for the tested solution (e.g., co-design of user training programs), promotion of the experiment’s results, and networking through various events aimed at facilitating the solution’s deployment and commercialization.
- The development of digital solutions validated in real-world settings that will contribute to the economic growth of the e-health - communication sector and the expansion of the market for care coordination solutions, with a solid business model and a well-defined market access strategy.
All of these services within the TLE service package will be delivered thanks to the business expertise of each consortium member and their contacts within regional and national networks, with the aim of promoting the dissemination of the developed technology.
The Tiers-lieu Projects
Project: Unhindered Communication
Supplier: WYES
Solution: Wyes First is a pair of smart glasses that serves as a control device for a digital communication system, designed to enhance the communication independence of people unable to speak (e.g., those with ALS, muscular dystrophy, or on invasive ventilators).
Need: The process of multilateral communication in healthcare is subject to significant medical, technical, or emotional constraints, which can hinder the efficient transmission of information and increase the patient’s vulnerability, to the point of impacting care delivery. The goal is to offer a tailored, user-friendly solution that enables individuals with communication difficulties (due to disability or intensive care) to interact with those around them (healthcare providers, family members, and peers).
Contribution of the Tiers-Lieu: The TLE ACCES CVL offers a diverse and complementary range of fields and possesses a strong capacity to mobilize healthcare professionals, patients, and users to initiate regional and then national expansion. ACCES CVL will provide access to the CHRU’s technical platforms and the Usetech’Lab simulation room to foster overall interdisciplinary synergy around patient care.
Project: BBalance
Supplier: MATEO
Solution: The digital medical device is a smart mat that collects the patient’s balance data and converts it into a score. Its purpose is to enable healthcare staff to easily, regularly, and consistently monitor patients’ balance and weight.
Need: The leading cause of loss of independence among older adults is falls. To prevent falls and improve care for older adults with declining independence, the French National Authority for Health recommends frequently measuring and monitoring weight and balance markers. The need therefore centers on a balance marker that is reliable, fast, accessible to all caregivers, and easily reproducible.
Contribution of the Tiers-Lieu: The TLE ACCES-CVL provides access to multidisciplinary expertise—including geriatricians, physical therapists, geriatric healthcare professionals, sociologists, and others—to carry out a project across various settings with complementary assessments. The TLE’s service offering will also enable continued support for the solution provider in accessing the market.