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
- Identifying a real need
- Creating persona
- Conducting a field study
- Benchmarking other solutions
- Understanding the ecosystem and initial regulatory issues
🧰 The G_NIUS tools useful at this stage:
- 10 questions to get your project off the ground
- Ecosystem overview via actor fact sheets to discover potential partners, support structures...
- Anticipating sector developments with theRoadmap for digital health
⚒️ 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 if the product is a medical device
🧰 G_NIUS tools useful at this time:
- Regulation Fact sheets (RGPD, INS, CI-SIS, HDS)
- Regulatory Diagnosis - "Is my solution a DM?" (key tool to find out if it's a DM or not)
- 4 questions to prepare my DM for the market
- Guided pathways: INS, Mon espace santé, national ROR
🧩 Structuring the project
🎯 What we explore at this stage
- Build a viable business model
- Identify partners
- Determine financing needs
- Prepare a development plan
🧰 The G_NIUS tools useful at this stage:
- Mon produit, mon financement(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
- Finalizing technical development
- Drafting and compiling the regulatory dossier
- Deploying best practices (RGPD, cybersecurity, interoperability)
- Engage CE marking or HAS dossier procedures if necessary
🧰 The G_NIUS tools useful at this time :
- Guided course INS
- Regulatory-diagnostics
- Regulatory Fact sheets (RGPD, security, CI-SIS, )
- PECAN guided pathfor an anticipated assumption of responsibility
- Remboursement solution télésurveillance guided path
🚀 Deploy & Upgrade
🎯 What we're exploring at this stage
- Launching a field pilot
- Monitoring usage/impact indicators
- Integrating into healthcare IS (DMP, INS)
- Adapting the solution to scale (territory, hospital, patients)
🧰 The G_NIUS tools useful at this stage:
Think about interacting with our Chatbot Genii: it can help you quickly find the tool or information you're looking for.
G_NIUS: The Health Startup Toolbox - Accelerate your Innovation
Are you a startup or 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, steered by the Délégation ministérielle au numérique en santé and the Agence du Numérique en Santé, facilitates support for healthcare 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 France's healthcare sector means tackling complex challenges: regulation, market access, financing, understanding key players or connecting with healthcare professionals and patients.
G_NIUS centralizes in its toolbox all the essential resources to guide you step by step in your development :
- Understand the regulatory issues (CE marking, medical devices, clinical trials)
- Identify the right funding depending on how far along your project is (BPI, region, France 2030)
- Get in touch with healthcare professionals, care providers or public institutions
- Better exploit healthcare data in 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:
- Health mobile application
- 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 aid. Entrepreneurs can quickly identify subsidies, calls for projects and funding schemes tailored to their business sector.
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 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 patient diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. French startups are developing innovative applications exploiting healthcare data to improve medical care and optimize care paths.
G_NIUS now integrates an artificial intelligence-based chatbot to guide users through the process.
A Network of Players for the Healthcare Ecosystem
The G_NIUS ecosystem brings together all the players essential to innovation in healthcare:
- Public institutions
- Research centers
- Healthcare professionals
- Investors and companies
- Hospital teams
- Laboratories and researchers
- Silver Economy structures
This networking fosters collaborations 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.
Already millions of euros have been mobilized to support innovative healthcare projects. Why not yours?
With G_NIUS, go from idea to impact.