Winner of the "Third Place for Experimentation" (TLE) call for projects dedicated to experimentation in interventional medicine based on digital technology and artificial intelligence.
GRECO EXPER is the winner of thethird wave of the Call for Projects (AAP) for Third-Place Experimentation (TLE).
This call for projects is being led by the Banque des Territoires on behalf of the French government as part of France 2030's "Digital Health" acceleration strategy announced by the President of the Republic to prepare for the future and make France a leader in digital health.
The TLE program, with a budget of €63 million over four years, is intended to finance Third Places in order to increase the number of testing grounds for the digital health sector.
The GRECO EXPER project is led by a consortium headed by Amiens-Picardie University Hospital (CHUAP) and involving the University of Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), which runs the GRECO Federative Institute, the Technology Transfer Acceleration Company (SATT Nord), MipihSIB, innov'a, and the Compagnie des Tiers-Lieux.
Capitalizing on the strong experience and cooperation between CHUAP and UPJV in innovative surgical robotics projects, particularly within theSimUSanté® Center, the new TLE "GRECO EXPER" aims to further strengthen the innovation ecosystem within the Hauts-de-France region. It will draw on the expertise of each player to cover needs across the entire healthcare innovation chain, working in partnership to accelerate innovation and ensure patient safety.
GRECO EXPER aims to establish a dynamic and collaborative hub to transform healthcare through technological innovation, focusing on personalized interventional medicine. It pursues the following objectives:
- Making surgical and interventional procedures more reliable and reproducible by evaluating innovative projects
- Improving early recovery after surgery or interventional procedures
- Enabling the synchronous use of innovative medical devices, AI algorithms, and data visualization tools to improve surgical planning, minimize the invasiveness of the procedure, improve outcomes, and optimize the entire patient journey.
- Train surgeons and interventional physicians of all specialties in these innovative treatments, particularly in procedures performed with robotic assistance.
- Disseminate the benefits of robot-assisted invasive procedures within local, national, and international scientific and medical communities.
- Assess the medical-economic and clinical impact (using an appropriate methodological framework) to measure the effectiveness and benefits of the solutions deployed.
The launch of "GRECO EXPER" benefited from the decisive support of 14 institutions and industrial partners, demonstrating the strength and collective ambition of TLE in the region:
- Hauts-de-France Regional Health Agency
- Hauts-de-France region
- Department of the Somme
- Amiens Metropolitan Area
- Inéa (GRADES)
- Lille University Hospital
- France Health Associations
- Aldebaran
- ARTEKA
- APICEM
- Bow Medical
- The Post Office
- SAS iAVC
- SAS Vertexa
The rollout of "GRECO EXPER" is part of a dynamic schedule, capitalizing on the TLE ecosystem (particularly those that are geographically or thematically similar: "In Citu" from Lille University Hospital and "BOpEX" from AP-HP) and the experience gained by TLEs in waves 1 and 2, all with a view to becoming operational as quickly as possible.