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mercredi 4 juillet 2012

Santé : l'approche holistique, plus intéressante pour l'entreprise ?

A lire sur:  http://www.atelier.net/trends/articles/sante-approche-holistique-plus-interessante-entreprise

Par L'Atelier - San Francisco 03 juillet 2012 holistic medical items and tools
La start-up de santé Mevident développe un réseau social pour soutenir les services, les avantages et les programmes de santé. L'entreprise défend une approche holistique de la santé singulière.
Alors que la technologie, les start-up Web et l'utilisation d'Internet ont tous modifié le secteur médical de manière importante, un fil rouge unit tous les participants du secteur : les praticiens, les patients, les employeurs et les écoles, tous aspirent à une communication plus facile et plus chargée en sens pour favoriser le bien-être. Pour répondre à ce besoin, Mevident a créé un réseau social et une plate-forme Web proposant des services de santé basés sur le Web, facilitant la collaboration entre praticiens et créant une communauté qui peut faire appel à une nouvelle technologie pour prodiguer des soins plus coordonnés. Cette technologie met davantage d'informations à disposition des praticiens et est capable de revoir les résultats d'évaluations, de créer des enregistrements, de partager des recommandations et aussi de collaborer pour proposer des soins intégrés.
Une approche qui aide à créer une culture d’entreprise plus saine
En intégrant Mevident aux avantages santé, les employeurs font des économies, mais les effets sont bien plus larges. « Le plus grand avantage que retirent les employeurs de notre plate-forme, c'est de pouvoir attirer et engager des talents » explique le fondateur et CEO Asako Tsumagari. « Selon notre étude, 40 à 80% des personnes ayant à faire un choix entre des emplois similaires accordent de l'importance aux avantages santé. » Cela touche également les personnes en poste : 70% des employés indiquent qu'ils consacreraient plus d'efforts à leur travail si leur employeur leur proposait des soins de santé. L'effet de cette amélioration de l'engagement des employés va plus loin que de simples économies de dépenses de santé : la recherche suggère que les heures de travail perdues pour cause de maladie coûtent plus que les frais médicaux et influencent la culture d'entreprise.
En développant un réseau indépendant de professionnels de la santé
Quant aux autres participants à ce réseau social, le système centré autour des employés donne aux individus l'accès à des ressources et à une guidance professionnelles. Dans la tendance actuelle de soins intégrés, Mevident a créé une communauté de professionnels de la santé opérant en dehors des médecins traditionnels. Cela se traduit en moins de traitements envahissants, plus de soins préventifs et un soutien à la santé sous forme d' « entraîneurs personnels, de nutritionniste, de naturopathie, d'acupuncteurs, de coaches de vie, de professeurs de yoga, de physiothérapeutes, de masseurs, etc. » La communauté de Mevident ne comprend pas de médecins traditionnels à cause des réformes actuelles au sein du secteur. Mais Tsumagari estime que ce que Mevident développe va apporter des solutions aux problèmes actuels de notre système de santé.

Open source software is a viable model for the healthcare industry

A lire sur:  http://www.atelier.net/node/407975

Par Alice Gillet 04 juillet 2012 clinovo logo
Technology company Clinovo develops open source software for the highly regulated clinical research industry. This new solution is becoming a legitimate and viable alternative to commercial solutions, and might help shape the future of the healthcare industry.

Before ending up on the shelf of your pharmacy, medical treatments and drugs have to undergo clinical trials - a set of procedures meant to test their efficacy and safety. A typical trial entails testing a new drug on a group of patients and comparing the results with a group of patients who did not receive the treatment. For over 10 years, information technology has been used to collect, analyze, process the data collected, and convert it to the FDA standards. However, the software traditionally used is proprietary, expensive,  and lacks flexibility, as Clinovo CTO Marc Desgrousilliers tells l’Atelier. With regulatory measures becoming stricter than ever, proprietary software just doesn't meet the needs of clinical trials companies and service providers anymore, Marc says.
Clinovo develops an open source alternative to commercial solutions...
This is why Clinovo decided to leverage open source technologies to provide better clinical data management solutions to the healthcare industry. ClinCapture – Clinovo’s electronic data capture system (EDC) – is open source software that Clinovo modified in order to meet the FDA standards and regulations. “Open source technology allows us to provide much cheaper, and more flexible software to our clients,” Marc Desgrousilliers explains. “Our code is free, and we monetize our business with other services, such as high level studies.” Marc believes an open source solution like Clinovo's is a legitimate and viable alternative to traditional proprietary software.
...And acts as an interface between the healthcare and open source worlds
Aside from being cheaper and more flexible, open source software is by essence the result of a collaborative work, and therefore more likely to be innovative. “We have our own teams who work on the code, as well as developers from all over the world, who contribute freely for the sake of improving the code and contributing to innovation” Desgrousilliers clarifies. In other words, Clinovo has positioned itself as an interface between the clinical research industry and the open source community. Open source expert Ismael Ghalimi tells us “Clinovo is one of the only examples I think of, of a company that develops a B2B software with an open source business model.”

mercredi 20 juin 2012

Mapping Developing Countries’ Mobile Ecosystems Should Help Drive Investment and Innovation

A lire sur:  http://www.atelier.net/node/407434

Par L'Atelier - Paris 20 juin 2012 MDI
The GSM Association (GSMA) has launched a platform which will aggregate data on the mobile communications ecosystem in the developing countries so as to help companies develop services to meet the real needs in particular markets.
Economic development experts see ensuring the availability of data on the mobile communications industry in the emerging world as an effective means of fostering innovation, and so furthering development, in those countries. Accordingly the World Bank launched in 2010 a call for projects creating mobile applications for aggregating and making freely available the development-related data which has been accumulating over the years. Now the GSMA has adopted the same principle with the launch, in conjunction with Omidyar Network, of the Mobile and Development Intelligence (MDI) project, which is intended to provide an open-access portal for mobile data. The GSMA has aggregated data from various sources including the World Bank, the United Nations and other Development organisations. "Open access to high-quality data will improve business decision-making, increase total investment from both the commercial mobile industry and the development sector and amplify economic, environmental and social impact," explained Chris Locke, Managing Director of the GSMA Development Fund.

Focus on mobile healthcare and mobile money data

The MDI portal will provide open access to aggregated data on mobile communications services and their impact on development - mobile healthcare and mobile banking being two key examples. Such data will include the number of connections in a given country, network area coverage, existence of a mobile payments service, plus more general demographic and infrastructure-related data on the rate of electrification, the number of Internet users, etc. The basic aim is to improve understanding of the mobile ecosystem and so foster the development of new services. A company contemplating providing a mobile payments service in a given country might for instance choose instead to launch a mobile healthcare application there if the data reveals such a gap in the market. MDI is already able to provide over 70 metrics on more than 140 developing countries and this capability is set to expand as the project progresses. Anyone wishing to obtain access to the portal is simply asked to create a profile on the site.

Tabulating the information

The MDI portal hosts over 800 profiles of organisations worldwide and lists some 750 products and services, with a strong initial focus on mobile money and mobile health. MDI provides the capability to view, tabulate, graph, map and export datasets organised by country or by category. Raj Gollamudi, Director of Investments at Omidyar Network, which is partnering the GSMA, points out that this “credible and trusted source of market data” should enable “greater collaboration across various sectors” of the mobile communications industry in emerging markets and “drive incremental investments in the most promising opportunities.” Mr Gollamudi eventually sees the MDI “becoming a vibrant community for all players in the ecosystem.