Third-Party Venue: MedTechLab
Supported by Aésio Santé
Main consortium members: Aésio Santé, Mines Saint-Étienne, Gérontopole Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, ALOESS, Nouvelles Technologies - AÉSIO Santé Méditerranée
MedTechLab, dedicated to experimenting with digital healthcare solutions, is open to healthcare and medico-social establishments and supports Research and Development projects.
The Tiers Lieu service offering
- Provide manufacturers with a complete service: technical and scientific feasibility study, usage study, clinical study, medico-economic analysis, market study and development of the minimum viable product.
- To become a central axis of inclusive and participatory innovation, by proposing a structuring of the entire research and development continuum of a product or service.
The MTL-TLE consortium proposes a unique offering in Francethat combines living lab methodologies, particularly design thinking, with engineering sciences, medical sciences, and the humanities and social sciences. Its main objective is to experiment and test new technologies and medical practices directly in the field.This is done through the active participation of users, healthcare professionals and researchers, enabling medical devices and services to be adapted to the real needs of each patient.
The MTL-TLE also aims to become a center for the training and dissemination of medical innovations, addressing the issue of technology adoption. By involving patients and healthcare professionals right from the device design stage, these spaces promote the rapid appropriation of innovations and limit the risk of failure by guaranteeing user buy-in.
To ensure the effectiveness of these initiatives, thee MTL-TLE adopts an ethical and responsible approach, respecting in particular the confidentiality of patient data and taking care not to expose them to unnecessary risks.
The MTL-TLE is a member of the Forum des Living Labs en Santé et Autonomie (LLSA Forum) and the ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs), thus participating in a national and international network in the health and autonomy sector.
Tiers Lieu projects
Project 1: MemoTLM project
Supplier : DYNSEO
Solution: Design and development of a serious game for the early detection of cognitive fragility.
Need: Early detection of cognitive disorders in the elderly through a serious game (digital support)
Contribution of the Tiers-Lieu : The study will have made it possible to objectify the number of patients diagnosed and cared for. The study will also have identified the successes and obstacles to this innovative pathway. The next step will be to remove these obstacles and/or adapt the treatment format to maximize the number of patients diagnosed and treated. The next step will be a comparative evaluation of the tool's contribution to the current situation in under-dense areas, and an assessment of its clinical, economic and organizational benefits.
Project 2: ESLIB
Supplier: AHF - Ateliers du Haut Forez
Solution : Installation of sensors and algorithms on beds already marketed by AHF (a technical feasibility study has already been carried out in a controlled environment).
Need: Assessment of sleep efficiency in seniors using a smart bed equipped with a ballistocardiographic sensor (BCG).
Tiers-Lieu's contribution: The tool is ready to be evaluated via a clinical study. Once financed, the study will have enabled objective indicators to be defined to gauge the effectiveness of objectivizing the effectiveness of the sensor and algorithms in comparison with PSG and will be able to be definitively integrated into the bed as soon as the results have been validated for industrialization by AHF.