At the beginning of February, Dr Philippe Nuss, head of the psychiatry department at Hôpital Saint Antoine, in Paris, will launch an experiment with a connected bracelet to identify warning signs of a depression. “This bracelet aims to give the alert when mental health falters”, explained the doctor in Le Parisien. The sensors of this bracelet, called Myndblue, will record various physiological and behavioral data (sleeping time, heartbeat, blood pressure, body temperature, body acidity, perceived light…).
Thanks to an algorithm developed by the two creators, this data will be able to be sorted and then interpreted by the doctor. “The latter will retrieve the data on his computer or smartphone. He will receive alerts that may indicate warning signs of depression in his patients”, specifies Denis Fompeyrine, one of the founders of Myndblue, a start-up currently housed in the Polytechnique incubator. The objective of this bracelet is thus to prevent the relapse of the disease which occurs in almost half of the cases.
“We are addressing patients leaving the hospital as well as at-risk professions such as civil security and the armed forces”, he adds, specifying that in the long term their objective is also to equip city medicine.
The two entrepreneurs have already filed for two patents and, in addition to Doctor Philippe Nuss, have surrounded themselves with a committee of experts including Professor Raphael Gaillard, head of the psychiatry department at Saint-Anne hospital in Paris.
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