A connected medical chair to make life easier for doctors

• The start-up Hygia, located north-east of Toulouse, is one of 16 Occitania start-ups selected by the region for CES 2020 in Las Vegas.
• She has developed an application which allows her to have all of her medical data at hand and to prepare for her visit to the doctor.
• It is associated with a connected chair which allows you to take the constants and avoid wasting time for doctors, who have fewer and fewer.

On average, the French go to see their general practitioner five times a year. In the midst of a horde of other patients with sometimes very different pathologies, they sometimes wait for hours in a waiting room for an appointment which will last from 15 to 16 minutes. And half of that time will really be on the medical problem. Based on this constant, the founders of Hygia, a young start-up from Blagnac, northeast of Toulouse, wondered about the best way to improve the time taken to care for the patient. Especially when you know that in recent years, the number of doctors has dropped by 10% while the population has increased by 10%.

To solve this thorny equation, its engineers and software creators have developed two complementary tools: an application and a connected medical chair, presented at CES 2020 in Las Vegas.

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“On the Hygia Care application, you can anticipate your visit to the doctor by answering a series of questions and taking in the symptoms you have. This saves time and gives more to the doctor for care. It is also a means of making the patient more active in their health, ”explains Pierre-Jean Brousset, CEO of Eole Consulting, who founded Hygia.

Saving time, responding to medical deserts

So much data that is kept and protected, and that only the patient can make accessible to the healthcare professional. He can also enter his information such as the date of his last operations, the results of his last blood tests and have a booster injection in case of delay in his vaccinations.

This interactive health book, the general practitioner to have it in front of you in one click and it will be able to interface in the long term with the shared medical file set up by Social Security. This information will be combined with that produced by the Hygia Pulse armchair. This device, manufactured in Occitania and whose certification is in progress, is intended to be installed in waiting rooms in medical offices or in pharmacies.

The production of Hygia Pulse, our connected medical chair, begins.
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In less than five minutes, it allows the patient to take his own blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, have his oxygen saturation and know his weight. Measures that the practitioner will validate, but that he will no longer waste time doing himself.

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“It is not intended to replace the doctor, it is combined with the visit. In pharmacies, this will make it possible to carry out medical follow-up, to see if it is necessary to consult a doctor quickly by checking the constants, ”ensures Florian Chuit, marketing and sales director of the start-up.

The connected armchair of the Blagnac start-up Hygia will be presented at CES Las Vegas 2020. - Hygia

A solution that could respond to the extension of medical deserts. The objective is to equip by 2025, 15,000 health personnel, from the general practitioner to the retirement home in a connected wheelchair, for monthly payments ranging from 110 to 120 euros per month. The patient would not have to pay anything to be able to use the application.

• Start-up
• High-Tech
• CES 2020
• Application
• Medicine
• Toulouse
• Health