Hygia to exhibit smart health connected medical chair in Las Vegas

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To "strengthen the therapeutic alliance between doctors and patients", the Toulouse start-up Hygia has designed "Hygia Care", a mobile and web application for patients and professionals, linked to a smart health connected medical office "Hygia Pulse", which measures vital signs in the doctors' waiting room.

"The objective is to make the patient active from the waiting room and facilitate the work of doctors when they follow up on office visits," Pierre-Jean Brousset explained to TICsanté.

"Most of the time, the doctors don't know why the patient is coming. Here, they will be ready before the consultation."

Concretely, to prepare for a doctor's appointment or just to monitoring their health, Hygia – via its "Hygia Care" tool – offers patients to "enter information themselves".

With a personal account, the patient can also store all their health documents on a "cloud secure health ", manage your appointments and update your medical profile (chronic diseases, allergies, history, treatments in progress, etc.).

"All the data will be stored on a secure server certified as a" health data host "(HDS), we are in the process of choosing the HDS editor", detailed the manager of the Toulouse company.

If he does not have the app, the patient can also provide all of this information and describe his symptoms before the medical consultation, directly via a screen attached to the medical headquarters. This is a first step, since the "Hygia Pulse" smart health connected chair then measures the patient's constants (weight, temperature, pulse, etc.).

When the doctor receives the patient, "he already has all the information on his computer and the summary view of the situation allows him to start the examination more quickly and make a more qualitative diagnosis".

A chair "made in France" 

Aged 57, a computer engineer by training, Pierre-Jean Brousset has also been the founder and director for seven years of the Occitan company Eole Consulting.

It was the engineering teams of his first company who worked "to give birth to Hygia" in November 2018.

In Las Vegas, the start-up -whose name pays homage to the Greek goddess of health, Hygée- hopes to have a maximum of feedback from the curious who will Review the smart health connected medical chair "to further improve it," said Pierre- Jean Brousset.

The technology of the chair, precisely, was born from the collaboration between the dozen Hygia employees, the Castis engineering school Isis and its living lab, the smart health connected health lab (CHL).

"Its manufacturing was entrusted to industrialist in the Occitanie region. Our armchair is made in France, only the electronic components are imported from Southeast Asia but they are assembled here ", detailed the boss of the young shoot.

For the time being, the chair is already being tested by an Occitan doctor. "Five other seats are being manufactured and a dozen will be operational by the end of January, after the CES," he said.

"We hope to market 1,000 by the end of 2020. In 2025, we hope that 15,000 professionals (general practitioners, community pharmacists, occupational physicians and accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people) will be equipped. On average, each doctor has 1,000 patients, so that would affect 15 million people, or a quarter of the population. "

"Ultimately", Hygia also hopes to equip "public and private" emergency services, noted Pierre-Jean Brousset.

In the meantime, the company has taken the necessary steps to obtain a "medical device" certification and it is ready to put its application "at the service of the future Digital Health Space (ENS) so that it can integrate its store" .

An artificial intelligence (AI) module should also be integrated soon "to enable predictive medicine," said the founder of the start-up.

A business plan already ready

To equip the medical chair and access the Hygia Care app, each interested healthcare professional must subscribe to a monthly subscription of 120 euros excluding taxes.

In addition, the start-up commits professionals "by contract" to use their technologies "for three years".

"This is necessary if we want to have a return on investment and Review our technology," explained Pierre-Jean Brousset.

"For all of this to work, professionals must take it over. The success of the project will depend on it," he added.

Two million euros have been invested "since May-June 2018" in these developments, including 1 million euros from funding from the Occitanie region. The start-up does not yet plan to raise funds "even if (she) thinks about it".

The rest of the investments are, for the time being, provided by Eole Consulting, the parent company of the start-up. Its founder hopes, however, that Hygia "will cross the barrier of 3 million euros in turnover within 3 years".

By then, the company is already planning its expansion and "four to five recruitments" should take place during 2020 to – in particular – "strengthen Hygia's sales teams", concluded Pierre-Jean Brousset.

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