“The challenges of e-health are not reserved for specialists!” (Interview)

2023-09-11 16:31:58

After several years in Nancy, the City Healthcare show, of which La Veille Acteurs de santé is a partner, will set up shop on September 21 and 22 in Nantes in 2023. What is the originality of this living room? What is its purpose ? Meeting with Isabelle Margo, former journalist and founder of the event.

In the landscape of trade fairs organized around digital health, what is the originality of your proposal?

Isabelle Margo : The DNA of the City Healthcare conference is to be a forum for discussion to take stock of digital health tools and what they allow or do not allow. Since the creation of the show in 2016 (under the name Cité Santé, at the time), we have highlighted the uses. Our idea is to offer a place where all digital health players, from designer to user, from researcher to startupper, can discuss practices. The idea is to focus on tools that improve patient health, increase doctors’ medical time, the concrete impact of 5G, etc.

Why did the City Healthcare conference-exhibition choose a territorial positioning, established in a territory?

Isabelle Margo : From the start, we had several intuitions:

• it is around digital health that the main innovations in the health system will coalesce;
• beyond national management, the success of the digital shift will be played out in the territories;
• it will be necessary to make great efforts to involve everyone, patients and healthcare professionals, in this new digital approach.

Over the years, these intuitions have been confirmed and we are convinced that the transformation of our health system and its recovery also requires the ability to make all the players in the system want to take advantage of the fantastic tools that digital technology offers them. in health.

What we have also always tried to do, as this year with the Health Innovation Agency and Dr Lise Alter, is to provoke a very horizontal exchange between a national steering structure and the actors of a territory.

Do you think that we are still far from appropriation by all players in the health system?

Isabelle Margo : There is still work to be done. But above all, there is danger which does not seem excluded to me, it is that of the creation of a new silo in the health system, that of digital health.

Let me explain. Many of us see digital health as the perfect tool to break down the boundaries between the different sectors of our health system. Many experts have long noted the nuisance caused by the lack of fluidity between the different worlds of health: hospital/city, research/clinic, health/medico-socialetc.

However, I observe a tendency of certain digital health players to follow the same silo logic instead of, on the contrary, breaking this old model which we know does not lead us anywhere. One of the primary objectives of digital health players should be to get everyone on board and to do this, facilitate use and make new tools accessible to all. This is essential for the future.

And this is the primary objective of our trade fair, which aims to bring people together for the benefit of patients. This is why we program both sessions on specialized subjects aimed more at digital health specialists, and more educational and “user-friendly” sessions, intended to acculturate users and professionals.

Will moving from Nancy to Nantes change things?

Isabelle Margo : First of all, changing territory was in the genes of the show, intended to draw on the different approaches taken in the French regions on the subject of digital health. We were very happy growing up in Lorraine and Nancy. Nantes offers a different system echo and a very strong dynamic around e-health. The players there are numerous, dynamic, full of initiatives and we are very happy to help strengthen their visibility but also to bring them together in the same place and, we hope, create synergies. In addition, the region is linked to neighboring territories, in particular Brittany and Val-de-Loire. They will all benefit us and I think that our approach, very focused on uses, whether by patients or by health professionals, will be beneficial to them.

Who are the visitors to the show?

Isabelle Margo : All stakeholders in the health system. From health professionals to management and actors of establishments, from patients to health executives… In short, all those who feel concerned by e-health as a tool for optimizing organizations and more broadly, the health system. Hoping that more and more people are. Because these issues are not reserved for specialists!

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