Fondation Pierre Fabre

MedicActiV

MedicActiV

A digital simulation platform dedicated to healthcare training

Main beneficiary countries:
Côte d’Ivoire - United States - Canada - France

About the sponsor

SimforHealth

SimforHealth is a publisher of innovative digital solutions for the initial and ongoing training of healthcare professionals. SimforHealth teams offer immersive and interactive training solutions, including virtual consultations, real-time 3D simulators and virtual reality. Developed by SimforHealth, MedicActiV is the first digital platform to offer virtual clinical cases.

This allows: on the one hand, all healthcare professionals to acquire knowledge as part of initial or continuous training, and on the other hand, healthcare educational institutions to create and disseminate their own clinical cases. This model of sharing and disseminating healthcare knowledge attempts to respond to the problems of access and updating healthcare knowledge.

SimforHealth medical teams and experts have trained more than 22,000 health professionals worldwide in the continuous monitoring of new technologies.

Sector: Industrial: Startups, enterprises, etc.

Country of origin: France

Contact the sponsor

Sponsor website

Initiative website

The organisation has:

0
Full-Time Equivalent
25
Employees
0
Volunteer
10
Service providers
MedicActiV

Initiative overview

Healthcare themes targeted

  • Mother and child health
  • Primary healthcare
  • Nutrition
  • Malaria/paludism
  • Infectious diseases
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Vaccination
  • Chronic diseases
  • Cardiovascular illnesses
  • Cancer
  • Oral health
  • Dermatology
  • Mental health
  • Ophthalmology
  • Emergency services

Stage of development:

  • Routine project/operational

Area where initiative is utilised

  • International (in several countries)

Initiative start date

  • 10/15/2015

Initiative end date

  • 12/17/2020

Financing

Financing method

  • Public (grant/subsidies, call for proposals/call for tender, etc.)
  • Private (private investors, crowdfunding, philanthropy, etc.)

Economic model(s)

  • Income generated by beneficiaries
  • Revenue generated by the beneficiaries/healthcare facilities

About the initiative

MedicActiv is a platform that aims to respond to many issues:

  • increasing needs for initial and continuous, distance and collaborative training
  • enable training institutions to develop their own clinical cases with digital simulation
  • facilitate access for as many people as possible to digital health simulation without the cost being an obstacle
  • develop a model that can be implemented internationally
  • facilitate the dissemination of knowledge to improve patient care.

MedicActiV is the first digital platform to offer virtual clinical cases. In addition, all therapeutic areas may be involved in training using virtual clinical cases.

MedicActiV is the first digital platform to offer virtual clinical cases. All health professionals have the opportunity to acquire knowledge as part of initial or continuous training. In addition, healthcare education institutions can create and disseminate their own clinical cases. This model of sharing and disseminating healthcare knowledge attempts to respond to the problems of access and updating healthcare knowledge.

Fields of application:

Health professional training

Target audience

  • Healthcare professionals and structures (hospitals, healthcare centres/clinics, health networks)

Initiative objectives

  • Improved treatment

Key figures

30000 Number of beneficiaries since launch

Materials used

  • Cellular (mobile) phone
  • Smartphone
  • Tablet
  • Computer

Technologies used

  • Internet
  • Mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, HTML5, etc.)

Offline use

Yes

Open Source

No

Open Data

No

Independent evaluation

Yes
auto-evaluated or evaluated by a related organization

Partners

INRIA

CHU d'Angers

INVS Côte d'Ivoire

Partners

Collaborators

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