A Booming Business
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Medinbox, a company that has established itself all over the world has boosted its business “thanks to” covid-19.
Based in Toulouse, the Medinbox MedTech startup, specialized in remote technical assistance in operating theaters, has a booming business with the pandemic.
They are a part of the “lucky winners” in the Covid-19 crisis. This is said without any provocation or faintness. The startup that specialized in remote technical and medical assistance in operating theaters has been one of the solutions for medical doctors and healthcare professionals who were engaged on the front lines, as it has been for the hospitals and clinics who wished to modernize their facilities. Medinbox also helps reinforce remote proctoring, one of the major lessons to be learned out of this global crisis.
One software and one network
Medinbox, based in Toulouse, is the meeting point between the Clinic Pasteur and the production company Next Media Factory, which was already dedicated to the medical field. “Back then, the equation was the same: to literally limit our footprint in the OR as well as the number of technicians” recalls Nicolas Gausserand, co-founder of Medinbox. “This solution is a packaged tool that does not require much space and allows anyone to remotely control the whole system. We gather the pros of both a videoconference software and a professional social network; and the autonomous interface allows the medical staff to fully control the livestream from the OR and broadcast it somewhere else, whether it is still inside the same establishment or thousands of miles away” says the entrepreneur.
A booming business in the United States and a booming business in the Middle East
The Toulouse-based startup has equipped over a hundred and fifty operating theaters worldwide, from the USA to Australia, passing through Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Canada or Pakistan.
Primarily used in Cardiology
One of the last instances where the Medinbox system was used was in June 2021, when Canadian proctors assisted French surgeons during a procedure that took place both in Toulouse and in Rennes. “The solution is used mainly in cardiology, because cath-labs require a lot of imaging. It can be useful to train young doctors as it can be helpful for procedures, from appendicitis to much more complex surgeries such as triple bypass surgery” adds Nicolas Gausserand.
“We guarantee full data confidentiality”
The Covid-19 crisis has fast-forwarded the need for the medical industry to mutate towards telemedicine and remote assistance. “Medical doctors were not able to travel for heavy procedures. The crisis allowed the spreading of our system, with hospitals gaining interest.” And what about data confidentiality? “They are fully anonymized, and you never see the face of the patient in the OR. Before the procedure, we ask for their consent, and the patient fills a form to acknowledge his approval.”
A turnover that doubled in 2020
In 2020, Medinbox has more than doubled its turnover (3.8 million euros, including one in the USA) and tripled its sales -of which cost varies from 15,000€ to 50,000€- compared to 2019. And for the year 2021, the MedTech startup aims at a hundred sales… which would be three times higher than those of 2020! Medinbox is also counting on more flexibility by setting up a rental package of the Medinbox system through a subscription.
Hiring now
The startup is moving from Port Saint-Sauveur to an open-space office in downtown Toulouse and will be hiring five or six new people to strengthen both support and development. Medinbox is now employing about fifteen people in Toulouse, and four in the United States.
As for the future, Nicolas Gausserand sees a new emerging tendency: a patient that goes back home with a USB key containing the footage of the procedure he underwent. “We are seeing this happen more and more abroad, but also in France, when the patient has given consent. We are in a world where people want to know what is going on. And it is a security for both the patient and the hospital staff, in case of a complication or controversy regarding the procedure. Everything has been recorded”, adds the co-founder of Medinbox.
That is one lead amongst others for Medinbox, in a context where the consequences of the covid-19 pandemic are still underlying.
-Translated article from Anthony Assemat – Actu Toulouse
The Future of Operating Rooms
A healthtech startup based in Toulouse empowers hospital staffs to broadcast surgeries from their operating rooms. Even more, it allows for a remote control of the cameras and is ready to launch a medical community network of sharing knowledge amongst health professionals.
“It is kind of the Zoom of the medical field, except that it is not just a camera. It is a whole ecosystem thought for operating rooms that allows the image as well as the medical data of the patient to be controlled remotely” explains Nicolas Gausserand, co-founder of Medinbox.
The French healthtech startup Medinbox has established itself in hospitals across the globe and is now taking advantage of the development opportunities offered by the Covid-19 Pandemic. The company was founded from the skill synergy of the Clinic Pasteur and Next Media Factory and has been commercializing a solution since 2010 that helps the digitization of healthcare.
Its purpose? To allow medical doctors and hospital staffs to record their own procedures live from the OR, and to broadcast them. Then, whether it is broadcasted inside the same establishment or thousands of miles away… it does not change a thing. And as a bonus for viewers (medical doctors and students) Medinbox gives you access to the medical monitors. So far, it was not groundbreaking, since medical doctors have been live streaming certain procedures for years, with videoconference tools that are intended for the general public.
But what sets Medinbox apart is that is allows you to control the system both on-site and remotely, meaning there is no need for a whole film crew inside an operating room anymore.
-Translated article from Melvin Gardet – La Tribune
Next Media Factory on the front line
Next Media Factory, a production company based in Toulouse, stood out in the peculiar field of medical film by becoming the broadcast operator for the International Medical Film Festival in Québec, on September 14th and 15th.
The MedTech startup, pioneer in the medical field, has been working for years with international cardiology conferences and has been specialized in broadcasting surgeries for over ten years.
For the Quebec festival, Next Media Factory directed all technical aspects of the broadcasts from the University Institute of Cardiology and Pneumology of Quebec (IUCQ) and the Homogeneous Patient Groups (GHM) in Grenoble, to the venues of the festival in Quebec.
For the two-days duration of the festival, about a hundred and fifty participants were able to follow different types of interventions, being livestreamed from five different ORs all equipped by Next Media Factory (cardiac surgery, thoracic, bariatric, interventional cardiology, urology, electrophysiology and pneumology).
-Translated article from Philippe Rioux – La Dépêche
Finalist at the E-Health Trophies
A total of six projects on telemedicine are finalists for the E-Health Trophies in Castres, France, on July 1st.
The 2015 edition of the E-Health Trophies is being held in the Summer University of E-Health, in Castres, from the 1st to the 3rd of July.
Twenty-seven finalists have been selected for an audition in front of a jury on July 1st. that will be broadcasted to tv-esante.com.
Those finalists are ranked into five categories: m-santé, telemedicine, social networks of both patients and health actors, autonomy and home support, a student project.
- My Diabby by Be 4life
- Voice Patch by Voice
- Medinbox by Medinbox
- EEG CAP by PILIPILI SA
- Ksyos Telemedical Center by Ksyos Telemedical Center
- Chronic Stress by Codesna
My Diabby is the first platform in French telemedicine that is fully dedicated to monitoring and managing gestational diabetes. On three-thousand cases of gestational diabetes (GD) followed over several years, the results are similar to a pregnancy without GD, with 90% satisfaction according to results published in the European Research in Telemedicine.
Voice Patch allows a continuous monitoring of the patient and his operated joint based on precise and objective assessments of joint movements. “Voice Patch is an electronic platform that uses inertial and magnetic sensors capable of apprehending three-dimensional movements of the body segments being monitored. It is a device that attaches directly and painlessly to the skin with which it is biocompatible, like a bandage would.”
Medinbox is an innovative and tailor-made OR integrated AV system, created with the help of medical doctors, to support medical progress by allowing the recording and broadcasting of medical interventions, such as surgeries.
EEG CAP is an EEG headset that uses dry electrodes, allowing it to easily perform remote EEGs. A clinical trial to evaluate the efficiency and safety of the device took place last year in Ghent, Belgium, with a single-blind design and a crossover study design.
Ksyos develops, researches and implements telemedicine services that help along teledermatology or telecardiology, to name a few.
Chronic Stress detects and prevents chronic stress that can otherwise lead to burnout and genuine individual discomfort. This device “only works from measuring Heart Rate Variability (HRV) using innovative copyrighted algorithms, that measure a precise activity of the Autonomous Nervous System (ANS), which is the physiological translator of real stress for a human. This is a project incubated at the PACA-EST incubator.
-Translated article from Telemedecine-360.com
Smile in the OR, you are on film! - Medinbox
After New York City, Paris and London. The MedTech startup just equipped the Hospital Necker and the Hammersmith Hospital with their new system that allows broadcasting from the operating theaters.
You no longer need a film crew. A British cardiologist just live transmitted his colleague’s intervention in one of the ORs of the Hammersmith Hospital of London. At the exact same time, over forty foreign specialists were watching. “They were able to follow the intervention in every aspect, says MD Nijjer Sukhjinder. It is a high-quality video, with an intuitive software that allows a beginner to create great content!” The Hammersmith Hospital was using for the very first time, last February 4th, the new Medinbox System.
No more film crews in the operating rooms and labs
Created in Toulouse in 2010, the MedTech startup has been known in the industry after successfully closing a deal with the Presbyterian Hospital of New York City. Now they celebrate two more, with Hospital Necker in Paris and the Hammersmith Hospital in London. “We were looking for an innovative solution to broadcast our techniques in international cardiology, says Nijjer Sukhjinder, who is also a medical researcher at the University Imperial College London. We are conducting experiments, with angioplasty for instance, that should be shared worldwide.”
It is a matter of fact: surgical procedures are being recorded more and more. However, doing so requires heavy devices that are also intrusive for the hospital staffs. With Medinbox, surgeons free themselves of a film crew inside of their operating rooms. They can now control with a touch screen a whole system including multiple cameras. And it takes less than thirty minutes to learn how to use the system. “Medical Doctors do not have the time to read a manual, they need a turnkey solution that is easy to use, says Nicolas Gausserand, founder of Medinbox, of which the Clinic Pasteur in Toulouse is a shareholder. While a surgeon is working in the OR, a colleague of his can broadcast the surgery through the Medinbox solution. I know, from experience, that only a medical doctor is competent to know when to zoom in or out, or when to switch frames during an intervention.” Another asset: “Our system costs 70.000€, when a shooting day alone already costs 20.000€” says the CEO.
Dubaï and Poland soon
Medinbox will soon equip a hospital in Poland before flying off to Dubaï. Recently the Medinbox device allowed a unique livestream, the first of its kind: a renal denervation by radial route, done by French cardiologist Jean Fajadet, in front of over a hundred medical doctors gathered in New York City for the occasion.
In 2013, the medtech startup’s turnover exceeded 400,000€, which is three times higher than their previous year. Full of ambition about his solution, Nicolas Gausserand would love to be the first to film a Carmat heart transplant in the Georges Pompidou Hospital, in Paris.
-Translated article from Hugues-Olivier Dumez – La Tribune
Medinbox arrives in New York City
The French startup Medinbox was first known for its work as a production company, but it has now stood out in the MedTech industry as it released an audiovisual management system directly integrated into the operating theater. A little barbaric at first glance, the equipment intended for hospitals and clinics is less complicated than expected: “there is an audiovisual system integrated to the operating theater with several cameras and microphones. We place connected screens outside of the room and direct from there, where we can both record the surgery and stream it live” explains Nicolas Gausserand, CEO of Medinbox. For instance, this solution allows for a surgery to be broadcasted to a medical classroom: students can follow the surgery and the control screens, as if they were in the OR themselves. A strong point? No training is needed to use the system: “I gave the cameras to my three-year-old daughter, and she could control them! says the CEO. Our strong suit is the ergonomics.”
And Nicolas Gausserand managed to stand out by recently partnering up with the Presbyterian Hospital of New York City: “We just equipped one of their operating rooms with a Medinbox system, a second system is already in the works, and we are negotiating for a third.” A contract with the hospital, being attached to Columbia, which is one of the most prestigious university in the world, should open more doors to the five-person-company in Toulouse.
Toulouse is where it all started, when in January 2010 Nicolas Gausserand set his offices in Port Saint-Sauveur. The Clinique Pasteur took part in the company’s capital, becoming a testing ground for the Medinbox system. Ever since the tryout period, Medinbox systems started spreading throughout France, Switzerland and the Principality of Monaco. After the US, the company is now turning towards England, Germany and even the United Arab Emirates, where a Medinbox system is to be set up by the month of July.
It’s a beautiful story for the MedTech startup, and it is only beginning. On one side, negotiations are going with other American hospitals, and on another, the tech team keeps on improving the quality of the images, working with Ultra HD technology, always closer to an “in-real-life” operating room experience.
In the heart of surgery
In medical drama television programs, it’s a classic scene: interns are watching through a window a surgeon working in the operating room. This is the Medinbox system itself: watch live surgeries, record them, and keep them for the archives and/or for the patient’s file. Cameras must remain discreet, and video cables close to invisible. The Medinbox solution also takes into account the medical imaging that are X rays, ultrasound, fluorography…
The MedTech company sets up a system in an operating theater, and then the hospital disposes of it; whether it is for medical collaboration purposes, or medical training, online CME, live or remote proctoring etc.
A number: twenty
Already over twenty ORs are equipped by Medinbox. The system is installed in over twenty hospitals worldwide. For now, already more than ten establishments have trusted Medinbox.
-Translated article from Julien Auguy – La Dépêche
Master stroke for Medinbox
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A young medtech startup company from Toulouse, South of France, seduced one of the biggest hospitals in the United States of America.
Medinbox has already equipped many clinics and hospitals in France.
Started in 2008, the company specializes in operating room camera systems and facilitating medical collaboration. They just strategically partnered up with the Presbyterian Hospital of the University of Columbia in New York City, USA.
Founded in Toulouse, the Medtech startup is the venture between Next Media Factory and the Clinique Pasteur.
After developing solutions, in close collaboration with surgery professionals, Medinbox released a high quality, autonomous, easy to use, and financially affordable operating room camera system; making Medinbox the non-intrusive solution most adapted for streaming and broadcasting live surgery, but also for telemedicine, remote proctoring and support.
The Medinbox AV medical solution has seduced hospitals and clinics in France, but also in Switzerland and the Principality of Monaco. Amongst the first clients are the Clinique Pasteur de Toulouse, the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Brest or the Clinique des Fleurs in Ollioules… and rumor has it Medinbox is in negotiation with the United Arab Emirates.
-Translated article from Frenchweb.fr
Settling in the United States
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The healthcare startup that specializes in OR integrated AV systems just signed a contract with a prestigious American hospital.
Medinbox was founded in 2008 in Toulouse, South of France. It first started as a partnership between Next Media Factory, a production company, and the Clinique Pasteur, the first cardiovascular center of France. The small startup was specialized in filming and live streaming surgical operations. Today, their success is ongoing as they just equipped a hospital in the United States.
Contrary to what one may believe, the industry of medical-friendly AV systems is greatly sought after. Videos are not only useful for training and apprenticeship but also for medical congresses and conferences. But there is one issue: to fit a filming crew in an operating room is quite troublesome for the hospital staff. That first solution was intrusive and expensive, it was not ideal.
That is where Medinbox comes in: the MedTech startup created a new system with cameras that can be controlled remotely. Simple of use and efficient, the Medinbox solution allows one to gather footage from the OR without disturbing the hospital staff.
After their beginnings, equipping the Clinique Pasteur in Toulouse, the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Brest, and the Clinic des Fleurs in Ollioules, Medinbox extended its fields of action. Today the startup has clients in France, Switzerland and the Principality of Monaco. And Medinbox is not stopping there. Two days ago, the MedTech startup announced a successful contract with the Presbyterian Hospital of the University of Columbia in New York City, what an achievement!
-Translated article from Axel Cereloz – Presse Citron
From Toulouse to New York City
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Medinbox, the medtech startup from Toulouse is to install their system in one of the biggest hospitals in the United States.
The young MedTech company that specializes in OR integrated AV systems just signed a contract with the Presbyterian Hospital of the University of Columbia, New York.
Medinbox started in 2008 as the crossover between the Clinique Pasteur and Next Media Factory, a small production company. They have put together a medical-friendly AV system for operating theaters, ORs and cath-labs. Whether it was for medical education purposes, medical training, medical congresses or conferences, the demand remained high, and AV systems and solutions were intrusive in operating theaters, until Medinbox released their new technology.
Medinbox stated on May 22nd, that they signed a contract with the prestigious Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University medical center of New York City. The company already works with French, Swiss and Monegasque hospitals.
-Translated article from Fabrice Valery – France 3