French tech startup is getting a boost from health regulation
French tech startup is getting a boost from health regulation
The Paris-based health startup AEDMAP was founded two years ago after telecoms consultant Paul Dardel realised there were no services to help people find cardiac defibrillators in public places.
Dardel attended an emergency care conference in the US in 2012 and realised that even there—US laws are among the tightest mandating automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in schools, offices and other places—there was no database for people to locate a device when they needed one.
AEDs can revive people hit with cardiac arrest in emergency situations.
“We now have an app which maps more locations than American people knew of before,” Dardel said.
AEDMAP’s app Staying Alive is compatible with Android and iPhone smartphones, in 13 languages. The app maps AED locations in France, Switzerland, Belgium, the US, Australia, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates. According to Dardel, the company plans to map “everywhere” and already offers a handful of other mapping and consumer healthcare services.
CPR-trained people can sign up as medical volunteers through the Staying Alive app and be dispatched as emergency responders before an ambulance arrives. 25,000 volunteers signed up to the programme this year in France, according to Dardel.
Staying Alive uses Google’s application program interface (API) for its Android app and Apple maps for the iPhone version. The two versions combined have been downloaded one million times.
The company also uses an Internet of Things-enabled tracking system to monitor when AEDs have been manipulated or recalled by the manufacturer.
About AEDMAP:
AEDMAP maps on a mobile app the locations of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in 13 languages and in several countries, including France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Around four million people in Europe and 1.5 million in the European Union die each year from heart disease, according to the European Heart Network (EHN) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). The commonest forms of heart disease are coronary diseases and strokes.
To reduce the number of deaths from heart disease, the European Union has decided to take action on the factors behind cardiovascular health in its 2014-2020 health programme.
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