MedTechLab®, Living Lab in Health and Autonomy

About us

MedTechLab® is co-directed by Aésio Santé and École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (Mines Saint-Etienne). Based at the Center for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering, MedTechLab® is a living lab in Health and Autonomy, and is part of the #FutureMedicine Plateform at Mines Saint-Etienne.

Activities

MedTechLab® is an interdisciplinary meeting space to think, to co-create, to model, to test, to experiment and to assess the use of products and/or services incorporating new technologies in the fields of Health and Autonomy in a controlled environment (Living Lab/Test Bed) and in a real-life environment (medico-social and health-care Establishments).

Mission

MedTechLab® offers, to industrial companies and socio-economic actors, a privileged environment to support, to encourage the research and development of innovative projects and to ensure the emergence of users’ needs. For example:

• Develop an innovative product/service (co-create from a new idea/project)
• Improve an existing product/service
• Extend the market by testing and experimenting an existing product to a new target
• Model a new healthcare pathway
• Assess an innovative solution. 
• MedTechLab® provides collective intelligent workshops, design concept and design prototype workshops, test and experimentation programs and evaluation programs.

Test Bed

The test-bed is a « smart apartment » equipped with different sensors, 3D cameras/analyzers, innovative furniture and a back office to observe / analyse the data.

Methods

Strengths

• Mode of governance by project
• Multidisciplinary team in medical, social and technological sciences
• Engineers, scientists, students, pedagogical engineers through the partnership with Mines Saint-Etienne
• Users, Health Professionals and establishments through the partnership with Aésio Santé
• Scientific valorisation
• Mathematical modelling, digital simulation and virtual reality

For further information, please, consult our web site: MedTechLab®