The International Competition Forinnovation in E-Health
RULES
The international competition forinnovation in e-health
ARTICLE 1: OBJECT OF THE COMPETITION
The eHealth Awards support and reward the development of solutions and applications in the field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for Health. The objective of these Awards is to encourage innovation, and favor the integration of ICT in the world of healthcare, as well as the autonomy of patients, among the largest number of professionals and businesses. They promote a growing sector: eHealth.
This competition is open to all actors having a project in e-health: healthcare institutions and professionals, patients and caregiver associations, social protection workers, businesses in the technology and healthcare sector, and researchers, teachers and students … at international level.
Organized by the Castres-Mazamet TechnopoleCEEI,the eHealth Awards will be presented during the eHealth Summer University, which will take place in Castres from July 4 to 6, 2017. The presentation of the project will occur on July 5, 2017, in public plenary session, to all participants. The presentation will be animated by a journalist and broadcasted in streaming live on the eHealth WebTV( This competition is an opportunity for competitors to benefit of large visibility and of commercial opportunities, at international level.
This competition is subject to specific rules and is free of any obligation of purchase or administrative costs for entering the competition.
The present rules have been filed with the bailiffs’ firm of SCP Aribaut Abadie Varo – Huissiers de justice, 7 place Roumive, F 81100 Castres. You may consult the rules at this firm ( or by visiting:
The 2017 eHealth Awards are divided into 8 categories:
- Telemedicine
Includes services, solutions, equipment, devices… that use information and communication technology in order to bring into contact (through teleconsultation, teleexpertise, telemonitoring, teleassistance…) with each other or with a patient, one or more healthcare professionals, including necessarily a medical professional with a view to making a diagnosis, providing preventive or therapeutic monitoring for patients at risk, requesting a specialist's opinion, preparing a therapeutic decision, prescribing or carrying out service interventions or medical acts, monitoring the condition of the patient.
- Autonomy and homecare
Includes services, solutions, equipment, devices to help to keep patients in their homes, prevent falls, improve the conditions of loneliness, equip the home with sensors to make safe the living space of people living alone or those with disabilities.
- mHealth for patients and the general public
Includes applications on tablets and smartphones that can be used by one or more patients or other persons to improve their health.
- mHealth for healthcare professionals
Includes applications on tablets and smartphones that can be used by medical or paramedical healthcare professionals to improve the quality of their care.
- Big Data / Data
Includes information systems for the processing of (large) volumes of data to provide help to make decisions or to improve understanding in the health sector (public health, clinical decision-making, therapeutic decision-making….)
- Healthcare coordination
Includes digital platforms aimed at coordinating interventions between healthcare professionals and possibly with their patients.
- Wearable health devices
By connected objects we mean any object worn by individuals with a view to improving their health that interacts with an information system capable of monitoring or collecting the data it provides. The award will be given to the object that is the most relevant and shows the most qualities (technological innovation, impact on health, economic perspectives)
- Student projects
Projects conducted by students in the field of eHealth.
The organizers reserve the right, during the Awards’ launch and preselection phases, to reorganize orchange (to add or to delete)the categories, if required, and to reorient the competitors’ entries to any of the categories in light of their content. If an application falls within the scope of more than one category, the candidate must choose just one category (in this event, the organiser can help the candidate to choose if the candidate so wishes).
ARTICLE 2: TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
Any individual or entity in France or another country (corporation, association, public authority, administrative authority, NGO, research organization, teaching institution, etc.) may participate in this competition.
The “Student Projects” category is open exclusively to projects conducted by French and foreign students.By student, we mean any person enrolled in a higher education establishment and who can prove such status at the moment they make their application.
Winners of prior editions of the eHealth Awards may not participate in the competition with an identical or similar project.
ARTICLE 3: JURY
3.1 Presentation of the jury
The jury will be composed of experts in the fields of eHealth and autonomy, representatives of the eHealth Summer University partners, specialized journalists and representatives of the 2017 edition sponsors.
3.2 Jury competencies
The jury designates a winner for each category and reserves the right, in accordance with the quality of the entries, to potentially award a Grand Prize, a Jury’s Choice Prizeand an Internauts’ Prize.
The jury’s decision is final. It analyzes the projects in light of the evaluation criteria (see Article 5).
It is not bound to justify its decisions and its decisions are final.In certain circumstances, it may decide not to award a prize.
Furthermore, the jury reserves the right to cancel the competition if it notes that there is an insufficient number of applications or if their quality does not meet the criteria required to select a winner.
3.3 Intellectual property rights
The competitors have exclusive and full ownership of the intellectual, artistic or industrial property rights that may be attached to the project, creation, design or invention described in the application.
The jury members and competition organizers may not be held liable in relation to the protection of ideas, patents, dossiers, models or trademarks invented by the competitor, in particular if a publication copies the protected work.
The competitors give their word of honor that they hold all of the rights related to their projects and undertake to guarantee and hold the eHealth Awards organizers harmless from any court order that may be rendered against them on the basis of a violation of an intellectual property right attached to the project presented.
ARTICLE 4: COMPETITIONAPPLICATIONS
4.1 Additional information
For more information on the competition:
email:
Tel: +33 (0)5 63 73 51 09
4.2 Deadline for the submission of Applications
The application forms can be downloaded on the The completed application form should be sent by email , before May 21, 2017 midnight.
4.3 Validation of the applications
The competition jury will examine the applications. The application forms should include all requested supporting documents. Applications may be drafted in English or French.
Any incomplete or illegible application will be rejected.
ARTICLE 5: ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
To be eligible for one of the categories proposed, the 2017eHealth Awardscompetitor must propose a project that imperatively fulfills the following criterion: use or development of ICT solutions, focused on healthcare and/or prevention of dependence.
“Project” means any technological or service solution under study or that was placed on the market fromMarch 2015.
At the time of preselection by the jury, a score will be attributed to each application on the basis of the following six evaluation criteria: a score of 0 to 5 will be allocated for each of these criteria (5 being the highest score):
1 – Strategy
The application must indicate how and on what basis the project contributes to solving a health, public health or solidarity issue (state of the art, identification of the health-related issue, impact on public health, macro-economic impact, intelligence, etc.).
2 – Technology: technological and industrial potential
The application must indicate whether the nature and degree of innovation provided by the solution are expressed, managed and comply with regulatory and professional requirements. The entry must demonstrate whether the project manager is credible in terms of implementing and deploying the solution (response to a technical problem, expertise in state of the art solutions, reproducibility and sourcing, technical solution, etc.).
3 - Organization
The application must indicate the benefits the solution provides in terms of the general operations of the user structure(s) in the framework of their mission (distribution and use of knowledge, consideration of the institutional structure, use of technical resources, etc.).
4 – Quality and Service use
The application must indicate whether the service rendered by the solution to professionals, patients and their environment presents the characteristics required at their level in terms of quality, effectiveness and satisfaction, while respecting their fundamental interests (information on service rendered, contribution to the patient and his/her environment, contribution to professionals, ethics of the solution, acceptability of the solution, etc.).
5 - Economics
The application must indicate whether the project is economically viable and whether it creates new economic activities (identification of the system costs, savings generated, degree of use, coverage rate, etc.).The application must also indicate how the project contributes to generate new jobs and have an impact on the economic environment of the project leader.
6 – Project management
The application must indicate whether the project complies with the goals set out (the means match the objectives, relevance of the means in terms of project management: work organization, risk management, project steering tool, project management, deployment, etc.).
– eHealth Awards 2017application Rules
ARTICLE 6: PRIZES
A broad visibility will be given to selected competitorsby the jury, on all eHealth Summer University 2017communication documents, before, during and after the event:
- Booklet and program
- E-mailing
- Event website
- eHealth Web TV
The winners of the 2017 eHealth Awards will benefit from a public presentation, presented by a journalist and broadcasted in live on the eHealth web TV, and will receive, during the eHealth Awards ceremony of July 5th2017, during the 2017 eHealth Summer University, an award and cash prize given by the sponsor of each category. The Grand Prizeaward is €4,000, and the awards for other categories (including the Jury’s Choice Award) total €2,000 each.
Winners will also benefit from a personalized mentoring with the sponsor of their category. This support, mainly focused on strategic consultancyto organize the project and/or the professional activity of the winner, will be realized during meetings occurring in months following the Awards ceremony.
The organizers reserve the right to change the categories in accordance with the quantity and quality of the applications.
ARTICLE 7: SELECTION OF THE FINALISTS
After the deadline for the receipt of applications, midnight on May 21, 2017, the members of the jury will preselect the finalists.
The preselected finalists will be informed by telephone, email and postal mail no later thanJune 6, 2017 and will be asked to present their project in person to the jury, in a public plenary session.
ARTICLE 8: SELECTION OF NOMINEES AND WINNERS
The preselected finalists will be invited to attend to present their entry in person on July 5, 2017, to the jury in a public plenary sessionat the ISIS School of Engineering - Campus universitaire - rue Firmin Oulès - 81100 Castres, France.
The physical presence of preselected finalists is mandatory onJuly 5, 2017for the public presentation of preselected projects.
The oral presentation will last10 minutes(5 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions) and take place in a room equipped with a video projector and internet connection.
PowerPoint presentations must be sent to the organizers by 5:00 pm on June 26, 2017 at the latest. They will not be transmitted or used except during the period of the presentation.
The organizers reserve the right to communicate, from June 6, 2017, on finalists, on the basis of the non-confidential summary of the project submitted in the application form.
ARTICLE 9: AWARDING OF THE PRIZES DURING THE eHEALTH SUMMER UNIVERSITY
The eHealth Awards will be presented during the eHealth Summer University at the end of the day on Wednesday, July 5, 2017at the ISIS School of Engineering - rue Firmin Oulès - 81100 Castres, France.
The physical presence of preselected finalists is mandatory on July 5, 2017 for the public presentation of preselected projects. Likewise their presence is mandatory on July 6th to receive the Awards.
In the event of winners being absent at the awards ceremony, the jury reserves the right to give said award to the candidate arriving in 2nd position.
ARTICLE 10: SCHEDULE
-May 21,2017 at midnight:Deadline to submit applications
-May 22 to June 4, 2017:Review of the application projects and preselection of finalists
-June 6, 2017:Finalists announced
-July 5, 2017:Oral presentation by the finalists and jury deliberations
-July 5, 2017:Presentation of the winners and award ceremony
If, for reasons outside of their control, the eHealth Awardsorganizers are obliged to change this schedule, information will be published on the website, which competitors are invited to visit regularly.
ARTICLE 11: COMPETITORS’ UNDERTAKINGS
All 2017 eHealth Awards competitors undertake to:
-Fully read and accept, without reservation, the present rules,
-Provide accurate information in their application. If it appears that all or part of the information provided by the competitor is fraudulent, said competitor may be eliminated from the competition immediately and no claim in this regard will be accepted. Furthermore, a finalist who provides false information will see his or her prize cancelled and will be required to reimburse the cash prize received,
-For finalist, physical presence of at least one representative of the project on July 5, 2017, on the event site,
-Send the PowerPoint presentation to organizers no later than June 26, 2017,
-Expressly authorize the organizers to use and transmit by any means his or her last name, first name, place of study, as well as the characteristics of his or her activity and project (non-confidential summary) for a period of one year following the competition. He or she waives, exclusively for the purposes of this competition, any claim related to his or her image rights and agrees in advance to the transmission of recordings, videos and photographs taken during the award ceremony,
-Inform the organizers of the progress of the project or of the entity for at least one year after the competition.
For any further information, please contact:
/ Yann PeterBusiness Innovation Manager
05 63 73 51 09
– eHealth Awards 2017application Rules