# Healthcare Innovation Case Studies & Blog — Health Factory

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## [How We Support Healthcare Providers: The Strasbourg University Hospitals (HUS) Case Study](https://healthfactory.io/en/blog/accompagnement-etablissements-de-soin/)
- **Date** : 2025-07-08 | **Author** : Sébastien Letélié
- **Summary** : Since 2016, Health Factory has partnered with Strasbourg University Hospitals (HUS) to drive grassroots clinical innovation. Through preparatory workshops and the Hacking Health Camp marathon, around 30 functional prototypes have been built over hackathon weekends, with 4 hospital projects selected for structured incubation each year—including Pixacare (now a leading medical photo startup), Senometry, Lud Hopital, and Fat Buster. According to Prof. Carole Mathelin, this process achieves in 6 months what would otherwise take 6 years.

## [How We Support Pharmaceutical Companies: Reinventing Medical Detailing Through Innovation (Sanofi Case Study)](https://healthfactory.io/en/blog/accompagnement-laboratoires-pharmaceutiques/)
- **Date** : 2025-07-08 | **Author** : Sébastien Letélié
- **Summary** : To help pharmaceutical leaders move “Beyond the Pill”, Health Factory partnered with Sanofi to train its diabetes medical representatives as innovation facilitators. Within 1 month, 27 collaborative projects emerged nationwide with healthcare professionals, and 9 clinical teams were selected and coached for 4 months leading up to a health hackathon.

## [Healthcare Co-Design Workshops: Our 3-Stage Methodology (Scoping, Facilitation, Delivery)](https://healthfactory.io/en/blog/ateliers-co-construction-projet/)
- **Date** : 2025-07-08 | **Author** : Anna Ferrere & Sébastien Letélié
- **Summary** : Health Factory’s healthcare co-design workshops (“Ideas Shaker” for problem discovery and ideation, and “Design Maker” for project acceleration, lasting from half a day to 2 days) follow a structured 3-stage methodology: 1. Strategic Scoping and custom expert selection; 2. High-energy Facilitation using proprietary healthcare Design Thinking canvases; 3. Actionable Delivery producing a validated experimentation roadmap.

## [Startups, E-Health, HealthTech and Hackathon: Inside the Genesis of Hacking Health Camp 2021 Winning Projects](https://healthfactory.io/en/blog/retour-experience-hackathon-hacking-health-camp/)
- **Date** : 2021-05-13 | **Author** : Anne-Laure Mathieu, Eric Fossoul, Sébastien Letélié & Anna Ferrere
- **Original Publication** : [Read the original article on Medium (Health Factory Publication)](https://medium.com/health-factory/startups-e-sant%C3%A9-healthtech-et-hackathon-%C3%A0-la-gen%C3%A8se-des-projets-de-hacking-health-camp-2021-d87499380c08)
- **Summary** : This Hacking Health Camp 2021 feedback report examines the genesis of 11 winning projects led by 12 frontline healthcare innovators (physicians, hospital pharmacists, physiotherapists, orthotists, ocularists, expert patients, data scientists, and hospital CSR leaders). Over a 54-hour interdisciplinary sprint facilitated by Health Factory, each real-world clinical challenge was turned into a functional prototype: GO ONE GAME, HELLO KINÉ, ODYSSÉE, ORTHOMASTER, OXYLIB, Data Breast Cancer Project, Leaf Check, 1000 J, COLORED, STOP BLOC, and ALOUETTE.