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Epitweetr is an R package including an interactive tool to help automated early detection of public health threats using Twitter data. Francisco Orchard, head of Epiconcept's Data Sciences business, and Esther Kissling, deputy director of the Department of Epidemiology, contributed to the project. A version 2 of the tool is currently under development, with a team completed by Lore Merdrignac, epidemiologist and biostatistician. It will propose in particular :  -…

e-SIS, Epiconcept's management system for cancer screening programmes, is now equipped with an automatic document reading function. This function enables information to be read and retrieved during the scanning of documents and data to be captured quickly (recognition of ticked boxes, barcodes and handwritten characters).  Developed with 3SI and its Scan'X solution, the ADR function is currently available for the cervical cancer screening module. ADR facilitates the retrieval of information…

Epiconcept is assisting Inserm and the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB), in collaboration with the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, in the deployment of the first epidemiological study on the quality of indoor air and the respiratory health of children in nurseries. Named CRESPI, this innovative project is based on the setting up of a cohort of 1500 to 2500 children, from a sample of 100…

Epiconcept will work as part of a major European project on pandemic preparedness and response, starting February 2021. The PANDEM-2 Project will develop IT systems and processes to improve the European Union’s preparedness and response to future pandemics. New solutions developed by PANDEM-2 will enable the simulation of future pandemics and the training of pandemic managers on a national and pan-European basis. PANDEM-2 tools will also allow for improved planning…

A private multidisciplinary hospital, the Foch Hospital is a reference establishment and is ranked among the top French hospitals. The IT Services Department (DSI) is hard at work in the digital transformation. It calls on Epiconcept to provide a configurable care or protocol monitoring database, adaptable to the needs of the teams and compliant with current standards (CNIL, RGPD). Discover our case study:

Vaxi, Epiconcept's IT solution for the complete management of vaccination centers activities, meets the recommendations of French health authorities and the needs of professionals for the implementation of the vaccination campaign against COVID-19. A solution adapted to the management of COVID-19 vaccination Vaxi includes an Eligibility module that meets the COVID-19 vaccination eligibility criteria provided by the Haute Autorité de Santé for the management of patients. It includes: - An…

Supporting health crisis management, providing tools to collect the data needed to analyze the dynamics of the epidemic: in 2020, COVID-19 was at the heart of Epiconcept's e-health activity. We provide a retrospective of the projects put into production for our clients, before a transition to 2021 where public health professionals will face a major challenge: vaccination campaigns against COVID-19. Screening management: a "Drive COVID-19" information system for Bioliance During…

Neonat, Epiconcept's neonatal screening management software, now takes into account MCAD deficiency screening, which was adopted on December 1, 2020 for all infants in France.Since June, the installation of this new screening software has involved training sessions and travel for deployment and handling in the centers using the software.Installed in about twenty sites since 2004, Neonat has undergone a first major evolution in 2012 with the addition of a Voozanoo…

The first monitoring bulletin of the I-Move COVID-19 network, including data from nine hospital monitoring sites in seven European countries, is published on Zenodo.org, an "Open Science" publication portal built and developed by researchers. The data collected covers the period from February to August 2020. The I-MOVE COVID-19 consortium (coordinated by Epiconcept) was created following the European Commission's call for proposals H2020 "Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health…

The Health Data Hub announced at the beginning of December 2020 that it had reached an important milestone with the authorization by the French National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL) of four pilot projects, including Deep.piste by Epiconcept. The CNIL authorization conditions effective access to the data required to conduct the project and therefore allows its official launch. Deep.Track: Improving Breast Cancer Screening with Artificial Intelligence Deep.piste…