On November 19, Mines Saint-Étienne, Eovi Mcd mutuelle, and Eovi Mcd Santé et Services signed a framework partnership agreement. It formalises the collaborations initiated with the Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering: the launch of two CIFRE PhD theses, innovations and access to the Living Lab #MedTechDesign, and exchange days bringing together engineers and doctors.
“Mines Saint-Étienne will make its research strengths available to Eovi Mcd Santé et Services and its care activities to address major healthcare challenges and provide Eovi Mcd mutuelle members and the general public with new, innovative services and tools.”
Joint research programmes on innovative uses
Two PhD theses are currently being carried out within the establishments of the EOVI mcd santé et services Group. They focus respectively on two themes linked to the CIS’s scientific work:
- “Automation and optimisation of home care”: the objective is to develop a suite of decision-support software tools enabling the automated scheduling of a very large number of clients and operators, in order to optimise a range of performance criteria.
- “Artificial Intelligence to detect frailty“: the aim is to develop an expert system capable of predicting, with a certain degree of confidence, the service needs for each new frail person.
Full-scale testing
The partners will rely on the living lab created by Mines Saint-Étienne on the Campus Santé Innovations. Within this space, the mutual group can test and trial, under real-life conditions, new services, tools and devices intended for its patients.
The first work carried out in this context concerns the creation of furniture adapted to the progression of dependency and to the new needs of users and healthcare professionals (such as the co-creation of the “smart bed” presented at DEFI-Autonomie 2018).
Maurice Ronat, President of Eovi Mcd Mutuelle, René Game, President of Eovi Mcd Santé et Services, and Pascal Ray, Director of Mines Saint-Étienne, signed a partnership agreement to strengthen collaboration between the three stakeholders in the field of healthcare engineering, in the presence of the project stakeholders—engineers, researchers and CIS PhD candidates.
Researcher/doctor networking days
Every two years, a time for discussion on new perspectives essential to patient care—from diagnosis to supporting patients—will bring together researchers and doctors around the themes of artificial intelligence and e-health.
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Contact: Vincent Augusto, CIS
