WDMH Congress, the meeting of health and innovation

The WDMH Congress (for When Doctors Meet Hackers, translated by when doctors meet developers) took place from 13 to 15 October 2017 at the Bordeaux Regional Hotel. This event brought together no less than 400 participants around the issue of innovation in the health field.

Sponsored by Lilly, MNH Group, Sanofi   and Nile , the WDMH Congress hosts the second Hackathon e-health and innovation in the New Aquitaine region. The concept? Enable healthcare professionals, developers, engineers, designers, patients and entrepreneurs to work together for 45 hours to bring innovative solutions to health.

New Aquitaine Region at the forefront of ICT Health

In terms of ICT Health, the region is a pioneer. It was therefore not surprising that the WDMH received guests of choice such as Alain Rousset, President of the Regional Council of New Aquitaine, Philippe Vigouroux, Director General of the Bordeaux University Hospital or Bernard Claverie, Director of the National Higher School of Cognitic to name but a few.

In addition to the Hackathon, the event hosted numerous conferences on various topics involving technology players as well as public actors and patients: the ability of the French health system to receive technological and digital innovation, the market, the price and the payer of innovation, the ethical and legal issues that inevitably accompany such revolutions. , or solutions to effectively evaluate these innovations.

During the 45 hours of the Hackathon, participants worked on 11 projects. Side effects, screenings, diagnosis, emergency management, or organization were, for a weekend, mixed up with issues of machine learning, AI, blockchain, or legality.

At the end of this weekend, 5 prizes were awarded to 4 of them.

An innovation-rich Hackathon

The CAP-SOS project was voted the winner of the WDMH by winning the Grand Prix and the Award for Best Patient Solution. To address the problem of delays in the management of poison control centres during a toxic event, the team worked on a solution for the general public. In the form of a mobile application, the solution would refer all CAPs to enable the user through a geolocation system to be able to contact the centre concerned quickly and via the application, the good medical conduct to be adopted, the collection of primary information to treat the patient or a tool of shooting (photographic or film) in order to identify the situation remotely.

The Award for Best Professional Solution was awarded to Satelia for its software for predicting and preventing the occurrence of untimely situations due to anesthesia. In order to avoid the occurrence of these events, Satelia integrates machine learning to react in a personalized way to each patient and situation.

Winning the New Aquitaine Prize, Meditest aims to ensure the authenticity of the drugs. By scanning the box’s barcode via its mobile site, the patient can obtain information about the product (from the composition to the side effects through the expiry date and an overview of the packaging). If the product is not recognized, the user as well as the laboratory concerned and the ANSM (the pharmacovigilance antenna).

Finally, Health Prover won the Lilly Prize with its application to encourage and trivialize screening for sexually transmitted diseases, especially in the most exposed settings. Working on individual screening habits, she seeks to prevent people at risk so that they feel concerned about their health and that of those around them.

An event that once again insists, if need be, on the fact that innovation and digital have more than ever their place in the field of health, but also on the major issues of the century concerning ethics and where to place the limits not to cross.

Candice Cibois – Bordeaux Business

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Photographs:   Léa Mariette

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