Digital Health

Biography

A graduate of HEC (Msc.), Sciences-Po (MPA) and La Sorbonne in philosophy (Ba), Alexis has a background in public policy, healthcare reform and strategic consulting. In 2013, he created the B2B department of French start-up Withings, acquired by Nokia in 2016. He became head of B2B for Nokia Digital Health and moved to the US in 2017 to leads its Boston office, until the company became Withings again. He is now VP of Healthcare. Alexis has driven the adoption of digital devices in healthcare with employers, medical providers and life sciences, growing B2B revenues. Working with major providers in Europe and the US, e.g., the Cleveland Clinic or Ochsner, he has implemented IoT based solutions that connect to Electronic Health Records, making it easy to monitor patient remotely and empower them in managing their chronic conditions. This has helped move from a logic of “fee for service” to “value-based" healthcare. Alexis has also has been an active digital health evangelist, both with the general public (Connected Health, HIMSS, AHA, OECD etc.), academics and regulators, e.g., as a member of the GDPR working Group on eHealth for the EU commission. Launching the Withings Health Institute, he worked with leading researchers (Scripps, Stanford etc.), sharing de-identified datasets on health trends to author joint scientific publications on public health. He has also authored a book on "The Revolution of eHealth", blog articles and opinion columns in leading newspapers. Recently, he also took an industry role as head of the Embleema Blockchain Consortium, bringing together patient advocacy groups, tech companies, providers and pharma, to empower patients to own their health data.

Research Interest

digital therapeutics & patient blockchain ,active digital health evangelist,eHealth