Third-Party Place: LIEN Santé - Lab d'Innovation et d'Expérimentation Numérique en Santé (Lab for Innovation and Digital Experimentation in Health)

Lead by Nantes University Hospital

Main consortium members: Atlanpole, Nantes Université

LIEN Santé is focused on the anticipation of the integration of new digital solutions within a hospital of the future and open to decompartmentalized experimental fields (laboratories, hospital, primary care, data warehouse)

Key figures

The Third-Place service offering

The Third-Party Center's offering is based on 3 building blocks according to the technological maturity of innovation projects:

Ideation and prototyping:

  • Accompany the emergence of innovative projects that will benefit from experimentation grounds in 3 to 5 years
  • Acculturate to the fundamentals of digital healthcare to be taken into account right from development

Experimentation:

  • Connecting fields and users
  • Accompany on the methodological, clinical and scientific aspects of experimentation
  • Realize proofs of concept on the proper integration of the solution in its environment and with users
  • Search for complementary funding
  • Access training and validation data

Market access:

  • Doing medico-economic studies
  • Anticipating the regulatory process
  • Accompany the project owner in his commercial and business strategy
  • Training in the specifics of the hospital market

In each of these areas, the third-location center supports project developers in project management, contractualization, regulations and financial engineering.

Tiers lieu d'expérimentation projects

Project 1: PRIME

Supplier: FIZIMED

Solution : New care pathway based on the EMY medical device, a wireless biofeedback perineal probe connected to a mobile app, enabling pelvi-perineal rehabilitation at home.

Need : Stress urinary incontinence affects 20% of women, according to the Association Française d'Urologie, and is cured by pelvi-perineal rehabilitation, on medical prescription, during a series of appointments with a masseur-kinésithérapeute or midwife trained in this specialty. This treatment raises a number of practical issues, including:

  • The need for a prescription
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  • The delay before having a first appointment and between appointments
  • The distances to a professional trained in this specialty
  • The organization of getting to appointments with family and professional life
  • Potential care of a young child
  • The discomfort and discomfort caused by manual rehabilitation on intimacy, which sometimes makes access to rehabilitation difficult
  • The need to practice between sessions for optimal effectiveness of management


Apport du Tiers-Lieu : Thanks to the Tiers-Lieu d'expérimentation, the PRIME project benefits from relevant experimental sites, access to users and advice on anticipating regulatory steps. It also benefits from expertise in clinical research, medico-economics and health technology assessment.