Looking for a French Hospital Partner?
De-risk the use of your innovation with one of France’s leading university hospital groups: the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)
✅ Product–french market fit
✅ Imaging datasets & AI
✅ Usability & CE readiness
✅ Compliant user & KOL engagement
✅ Simulated or real-world β-testing
✅ EPR interoperability & scalability
Hospices Civils de Lyon:
France’s second-largest public hospital group.
Home to the first innovation departments established within a French university hospital (CHU).
With over 200 years of history, 13 hospitals spread across 4 groups and more than 24,000 professionals, HCL is a comprehensive healthcare system addressing all medical specialties.
📁 Integrated digital infrastructure: proprietary Electronic Health Record (EHR) system deployed across 150+ healthcare facilities.
➡️ Strategic partnerships: strong collaborations across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and nationally (including the AP-HP in Paris - France’s largest university hospital group).
📍 The Innovation Department is located in Lyon’s Gerland Biodistrict, alongside key players such as the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the WHO Academy, Sanofi, Boehringer Ingelheim, BioMérieux, Roche and more.
Turning your innovation into impact within the French healthcare market.
Healthcare innovation is a major driver of transformation. Today’s challenges call for faster, cost-efficient solutions grounded in real-world clinical needs.
Our four innovation platforms provide you with complementary expertise to help you understand the French healthcare ecosystem and successfully bring your innovations to market:
- Digital health via PLATINES
- Robotics and medical devices via STATION H
- Health data and AI via COLYBRI
- 3D prototypes, medical devices and simulators via CO'LAB 3D
Organizational and Managerial Innovation, Digital Health, AI, Medical Devices or Cutting-Edge Equipment?
👉 From concept to deployment:
we support every critical stage of your innovation journey!
Ideation
Explore use cases and validate needs directly with healthcare professionals.
Regulatory compliance, workshop facilitation, focus groups, immersion, interviews, and more.
Prototype
Design, develop, and test solutions with end users.
3D printing, co-development, data access, ergonomics, user aptitude testing, and more.
Product Validation
Validate your solution in real-world or simulated clinical settings.
Voice of Customer (VoC), regulatory (REX) studies, impact studies, and more.
Deployment
Scale your innovation within healthcare institutions.
Access strategic support for market entry and adoption.
A Collaborative Ecosystem designed for Impact
We connect key stakeholders to accelerate innovation and ensure sustainable growth.
Innovative Companies
✅ Research & Development of innovative solutions.
👉 Goal: Deployment and growth.
Innovation Platforms
✔️ Support companies (Guidance, Structuring).
✔️ Analyze results (Collection, Study).
✔️ Ensure anti-corruption compliance.
👉 Goal: Capitalize (Results, Improvements).
Healthcare Ecosystem
✅ Test and co-develop solutions in real-world settings.
✅ Provide medical, technical, structural, and economic expertise in a framed manner to avoid overloading the ecosystem.
👉 Goal: Improve the healthcare system (Staff QWL, Patient care, Environmental impact, etc.).
"Thanks to the multidisciplinary expertise of STATION H, we were able to adapt our medical device to clinical constraints and significantly improve its usability."
"COLYBRI’s support enabled us to meet industrial requirements and accelerate our development roadmap."
"With PLATINES, we conducted a comprehensive evaluation demonstrating the clinical performance of our AI solution."
"COLAB 3D provided the advanced prototyping capabilities essential to the success of our project."