The partnership will help meet with new health needs and requirements in a secured manner to protect and respect patient confidentiality
WeHealth by Servier, Servier Group’s Digital Health business unit, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced a collaboration agreement to define new market paradigms of home technologies.
WeHealth and AgeLab will interact together through the AgeLab C3 Connected Home Logistics Consortium, along with other industry leaders, to conduct collaborative research to envision the development of home services to tackle the growing challenge of connectivity, convenience and care to improve individual health and well-being in elderly people.
“This partnership is an unprecedented opportunity to synergise our forces for advancing healthcare,” said Dr David Guez, General Director of WeHealth by Servier. “This follows our open innovation approach, which we firmly believe is an efficient way to accelerate the development and commercialisation of solutions that will benefit patients and healthcare professionals.”
Through its research, which aims to understand the impact of global demographic change on consumer behavior, AgeLab MIT believes that tomorrow’s home will no longer simply be a place to live, but will become a platform of services and experiences provided by an interconnected ecosystem of technologies.
“Recent efforts to address challenges brought by aging population have looked at technology as a possible solution”, said Dr Joseph Coughlin, Principal investigator of the C3 Consortium Programme. “The introduction of ambient intelligence throughout the time, empowered by machine learning algorithms, is especially well positioned to motivate healthy behavior and proactively reduce the probability of catastrophic event such as missed doses of medication and falls”. In a context of increasing chronic diseases and an aging population, the development of home healthcare is a significant issue. E-health makes it possible to provide innovative and effective solutions that meet the evolving needs of patients. It facilitates patient‘s distance care and assistance and care pathway in terms of prevention, compliance and homecare services.
E-health also reflects a change in the behaviour of patients who are increasingly involved in their health and treatment plans by being better informed – via specialised websites and mobile health – and better self/ remotely monitored, thanks to the emergence on the market of connected devices (i.e. glucose meter, portable ECG, treatment reminders, sensors) and affordable home diagnostics tests.
Data analytics is the common denominator to all digital technologies. The solutions designed as part of the partnership between WeHealth by Servier and AgeLab MIT will meet with new health needs and requirements in a secured manner to protect and respect patient confidentiality. The innovations will also ensure data interoperability between the different solutions on the market and broader health data (i.e. Electronic Medical Records), ultimately breaking down siloes of data while improving access data by patients and healthcare professionals.