THE PROGRAM

BY & FOR

HEALTHCARE WORKERS

Impulse is an innovation programme through which Bayes Impact graciously provides healthcare professionals with a technological platform enabling them to prototype AI solutions to assess whether they meet their needs.

The programme provides:

• a methodological support to transform an idea into a concrete project,

• technical support for the development and experimentation of solutions,

• a secure regulatory and governance framework, compliant with hospital requirements,

• infrastructure and open-source resources (AI models, secure HDS servers, technical expertise).

The objective is to help hospital teams develop useful, safe and ethical tools, built by healthcare professionals, for healthcare professionals.

Data protection is an absolute priority. Every project is conducted in a technical environment guaranteeing strict compliance with GDPR and the European AI Act.

The technologies used are open-source and audited by independent third parties, to ensure complete transparency on their functioning. The processing of health data is very strictly regulated to be in perfect compliance with applicable legislation.

All data used in experiments is anonymized or pseudonymized, and regular security audits are carried out to verify the compliance and security of processing. No data is exploited for commercial or private research purposes.

The program is open to all healthcare professionals working in a public hospital (AP-HP for the pilot phase with the support of third places @Hôtel-Dieu and BOpEx) regardless of their profession or department: physicians, researchers, paramedical staff, administrative, technical and support staff.

Interns and other learners working at the hospital can also submit an idea, provided they inform their hospital supervisors.

No expertise in artificial intelligence or IT is required.

The Impulse program is designed to support hospital teams in designing and evaluating solutions developed on the ground, in service of care quality and hospital organization.

Impulse supports any artificial intelligence use project aimed at assessing whether it can meet a concrete need in the hospital setting. By way of example, ideas may focus on:

• work organization: optimization of schedules, simplification of repetitive tasks, reduction of administrative time,

• care coordination: information sharing between departments, continuity of patient follow-up, support for clinical decision-making,

• administrative processes: assisted automation of data entry, sorting or searching documents, management of information flows,

• quality and safety of care: assistance in monitoring indicators, help in detecting anomalies, support for prevention.

Projects can be at different stages of maturity: from an emerging idea to an already initiated prototype. What matters is that they are based on concrete observation of the hospital setting.

No, Impulse is a public health innovation program dedicated exclusively to projects of general interest led by hospital teams.

Support, whether technical, methodological, or regulatory, is entirely covered.

Participation is free for professionals and their institutions, in a logic of collective contribution to improving the quality of care and working conditions.

Each proposal is subject to careful evaluation by a committee composed of experts in health, artificial intelligence, ethics, and regulation.

Projects are selected based on four main criteria:

• relevance of the identified need: the problem addressed is concrete, clearly formulated and rooted in the reality of hospital operations,

• potential impact: the proposed solution can improve the quality of care, working conditions or hospital organization,

• technical and operational feasibility: the project can be developed and tested under real conditions in the public hospital,

• regulatory and ethical compliance: the approach respects safety, confidentiality and compliance requirements of the hospital sector.

Selected projects enter the incubation phase, where they benefit from personalized support to move from idea to prototype tested in the field.

The success of the program relies on the active involvement of project leaders.

No technical skills are necessary, but regular availability is expected to ensure continuous project monitoring. Participants commit to:

• participating in collective workshops and working sessions with the support team,

• collaborating with technical and regulatory teams,

• informing their supervisors and facilitating, where appropriate, the mobilization of their department.

An estimated participation of approximately two hours per week is recommended throughout the incubation phase, in compliance with hospital organization and constraints.

Healthcare professionals volunteering to join the program are invited to complete the dedicated form accessible online.

The form questions are as follows:

Personal information:

• First and last name

• Phone number

• Email

• Your hospital facility, department and position

Your project:

• Your project is being carried out:

  • individually;

  • as a team

• Describe the need or difficulty in your hospital practice or department that you would like to resolve through AI (lack of time for certain tasks, difficult coordination, loss of information, administrative burden…)

• Do you already have a potential solution in mind?

• Do you already have data, a prototype, or an initial experimentation?

• Who would benefit the most from this solution:

  • patients;

  • healthcare professionals;

  • the facility / department;

  • other

• How would your daily life, that of your colleagues or patients be concretely improved with this solution?

• What do you expect from the support program? (methodological support, prototyping assistance, experimentation, regulatory guidance…)

• Additional remarks