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DTx Sciences awakens e-health in Bordeaux

DTx Sciences at the service of e-health in Bordeaux. Indeed, over time, medicine and health evolve. The ideas of some give way to those of others according to the innovations and discoveries of the sector. Today medicine is placed under the sign of innovation. It could also be that digital technology is increasingly positioned as the fourth medicine. It could then make it possible to predict, prevent chronic diseases and the treatments to be applied. Thus, the DTx Sciences Days have the mission to open the question by bringing together the health ecosystem in the region. The latter then participate in a long-term innovation process, they become actors in digital health therapies.

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a dynamic region in the digital and health sector. François Jeanson, Delegate for Health and Silver Economy of the Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine confirms this idea. For him it is the first region of France in terms of jobs in these sectors. Indeed, the neo-Aquitaine territory was able to detect links very quickly. These links exist between health professionals and digital players.

On this observation, the DTx Sciences days were held. They took place in the center of Bordeaux at the Héméra space on rue Fondaudège. Thus, on June 27 and 28, two days were dedicated to digital solutions and e-health. The event is hosted by Maryne Cotty-Eslous. She is the founder of Lucine, a company specializing in digital therapies. This international consultation brings together international experts. Among them, Ramon Hernandez, Head of Real World Evidence Data at Sanofi France, and Edward Cox, CEO of Dthera Sciences in the United States. In addition, a citizen consultation has been set up. The objective is to follow up on these two days of round table and brainstorming.

The impact of digital technology on global health according to DTx Sciences

To the question can the data heal? DTx Sciences says yes. Indeed, digital technology is already taking place at the moment. It aims to propose concrete solutions around the issues of digital and health. Digital health spaces, for example, aim to optimize all administrative care for patients. Thus, the MEDTEQ was present on the day of June 27. Straight from Canada, it is the Industrial Consortium for Research and Innovation in Medical Technologies.

Her project manager Sabrina Fettal was able to revisit the need for treatment in a different way. Indeed, the impact of digital technology on global health is tantamount to asking: how do we know if a population is doing well? As such, the use of data would make it possible to get as close as possible to real life. Digital technology could thus help to statistically measure overall health through the use of behavioural data or adherence data*. It could also make it possible to measure the patient’s digital interactions during their care journey. DTx Sciences has helped to identify these questions.

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Digital technology could play a big role in health.

Digital technology for a breathless health system

Following DTx Sciences, we can make the observation of a health system undermined. Indeed, it can be compared to that of the economic and industrial sector as a whole. Indeed, it is subject to a transformation of its activity driven by digital technology. There was already digitization and the use of IT services for the follow-up of patient records. Today, there are other issues in the fields of health. Digital technologies are becoming the engine of new services. They apply to all areas of public health. Both in the accompaniment of patients and in prevention.

The territory is in a context of aging population. It also faces a problem of medical desertification. Thus, health professionals and digital actors have decided to carry out their actions jointly. On 18 September 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron presented the main guidelines of the strategy for transforming our health system (STSS), also known as “My Health 2022”. With this in mind, the Interministerial Centre for The Prospective and Anticipation of Economic Mutations (PIPAME) has been tasked with working on the impact of digital technology on health in order to provide a precise framework for health data and to embody a transforming lever for the healthcare industries.

This reflection, which combines digital and health, has also emerged as a result of the economic imperative, as health spending is now growing more strongly than GDP. From an economic point of view, it is also necessary to take competition law into account when sharing medical data. Indeed, there are different legal regimes depending on the type of data, whether it is personal data or not. If the issue of the general interest is omniscient in the field of public health, we must be able to ensure that data is not used to the detriment of individuals.

In Asia, for example during recurrent episodes of avian influenza, unvaccinated people have been geo-located, thus flouting the free will of citizens. It is also necessary to be able to assure manufacturers or hosts that the leaked data will not be used by their competitors. The solution could be, for start-ups, for example, to create their own data, or to include a transparent intermediary that retraces the path of the data, to know its use and its public utility.

DTx Sciences has made it possible to affirm that digital resources are an important lever for development and innovation for the health sector. However, make no mistake: algorithms must adapt to the way we treat and not the other way around. Several locks still exist to the total fusion of digital with health. The business model first of all that is not yet quite stable even if we witness the end of an experimental phase. If an economic model is found, the most important lock will still be the acceptability of populations. It is reasonable to accept that public policies will not be sufficient to transform people’s practices. However, nothing is less certain about the evolution of society since telemedicine is developing, where no one was anticipating its development.

Justine Angibaud

According to WHO, adherence is the extent to which the behavioural actions of a person who needs to take a medication, follow a diet and/or change their lifestyle correspond to the medical prescriptions of a health professional.

Sources:

ARS Health

TSA E-health

ADI New Aquitaine

MEDTEQ

Economic studies, “E-health: bringing out the French offer by meeting the present and future needs of health actors”, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Digital, 2016

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