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Friday February 12th, 2016
The number of digital technology uses in the health sector is multiplying. We seek to modernise operating theatres, facilitate medication, and shorten hospitalisation periods to relieve the burden on healthcare centres without harming the patients. Patients are monitored remotely and assisted during recovery, as digital technology allows health professionals to collect data on the patients’ […]
The number of digital technology uses in the health sector is multiplying. We seek to modernise operating theatres, facilitate medication, and shorten hospitalisation periods to relieve the burden on healthcare centres without harming the patients. Patients are monitored remotely and assisted during recovery, as digital technology allows health professionals to collect data on the patients’ medical condition.
This wireless connected patch was developed for hospitals in order to monitor patients from their homes. The patient wears it directly on his or her skin. Vital signs such as heart-rate, respiration, and temperature are measured every two minutes and sent to the hospital by internet, allowing patient monitoring after clinical or chirurgical interventions.
My Hospi Friends This app allows patients to meet other people in the same healthcare centre. It complements the entertainment offered by the centre in order to improve the well-being of the patients, who can talk to each other, create ties and take a break from discussing their pathological condition, which is too often the prevailing theme during patient recovery.
Today, the rise of 3D printing, particularly of the new materials that can be used, allows us to create copies of a patient’s organs in order to identify anomalies more easily when scanners are not enough. In the United States, thanks to this technology, a new-born baby with a heart condition was diagnosed and treated.
Learn more about uses in the booklet Digital cities, human design and find out about our previous articles on digital technology:
The second edition of the Global Mobility Forum kept its promises on 6 and 7 December. Nearly 500 appointments and contacts were produced during these two days, with nearly 800 vacancies in the Group worldwide. Replay.
Intrapreneurship is a way of developing an innovative project without leaving your company. How does it work? What do you need to know before you start? Nicolas Courtois and Nicolas Dubreil, intrapreneurs from NewValue, seasons 1 and 2, told us about their recent experience in the matter.
Sharing information so that all project stakeholders have the same view of the project. Welcome to the BIM era! Every week for a month, you can learn about one project where BIM is being used innovatively. Today we are looking at the ABC demonstrator in Grenoble, by Linkcity Sud-Est.
“Keep your eyes open, listen and feel” In the last episode in the Bouygues Travaux Publics’ “A pilot’s life” mini-series, immerse yourself with Fabrice, 47, a TBM manager on Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link project in Hong Kong. With innovation and respect for the environment central to the project, the extraordinary tunnel was dug out by […]
Carbon-free driving with Bouygues Energies & Services! Following the installation of recharging terminals for electric vehicles in the Maine-et-Loire department of France, our subsidiary is now set to install around a thousand such terminals in the large newly-formed French region of Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées. The four-year deal is one of the most lucrative signed in France. To […]
Since 2006, Bouygues Energies & Services has raised the awareness of over 900 managers and employees and carried out over 400 actions to help people with disabilities stay employed. In France, the staff currently counts 343 people with disabilities.
With the aim of reducing occupational health risks on work sites, improving productivity and producing complex items, 3D printing, while still in its experimental stage, is taking the building sector into an industrialisation process that will result in some exceptional achievements. Technology to serve US, not vice-versa.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games represent a wonderful opportunity to rethink the regions through ambitious urban projects. This event associated with the Greater Paris area will enable the capital to perfect its status as a global city and accelerate the transformation of the Ile-de-France department. Spotlight on the impact of the Olympic Games on our cities and on the economic benefits derived from the magic of Olympism.
Find out why Bouygues Construction is getting closely involved, in particular by investing in the startup Simsoft Industry.
