Bordeaux Digital Public Health Environment

The Bordeaux metropolis concentrates the world leaders in the e-health sector and is a welcoming ground for innovative startups. The territory also benefits from a leading hospital network and can rely on leading-edge universities and research centres.

A French leader in e-health

Bordeaux, capital of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region, is the 1st French region for hospital informatics and the 2nd region in the field of e-health. It benefits from an industrial dynamic favoured by:

  • The TIC Santé Aquitaine (Aquitaine Health ICT) Cluster composed by industrialists and actors of the Health domain,
  • A large number of health and medical-social professionals involved in supporting e-health projects for industrialists,
  • Specialized academic competencies (ENSC, Lab Cognitique, Raudin, Isped, Digital Public Health Graduate Program) and a widely recognized experience of the TéléSanté Aquitaine organisation
  • A political will to enshrine the Nouvelle Aquitaine as a region that counts in the deployment of national orientations (Silver Economy, National Health Strategy, DMP, Digital Care Territory, etc.) and the European orientations (2014-2020 Structural Funds).

Companies in full boom

  • Maincare Solutions, considered as a major actor of the e-health domain in France, based in Canéjan (Gironde)
  • Invivox start up, the first global e-platform connecting specialists doctors for in-situ training, based in Pessac (Gironde)
  • EDevice, global leader in connectivity solutions for the health industry, based in Bordeaux (Gironde)
  • The digital simulation MedicActiV platform dedicated to health training developed by the Interaction Healthcare Company has just won the “Major Project” category award at the 5th International e-education symposium in Canada.

Events boosting the e-health industry

Large amounts of events are created in Bordeaux in order to promote and strengthen the e-health ecosystem.

  • The hackathon Hacking Health to promote the links between health and technology.
  • The European colloquium “Silver Economie & Habitat” about the robotic support interacting with connected objects.
  • The Health forum in which industrialists and institutional actors of the Health domain gather to discuss a chosen theme.
  • The MediSpace colloquium dedicated to technology transfer between the aerospace and medical industries.

Source: Invest in Bordeaux

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Updated on 25/09/2020

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