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Health / Social Work Human Health Services And Activities Human Health Activities 86 - Human health activities
220 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 March 2022
Employment effect (start)
24 March 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
Telemedicine company NP Medical has announced the recruitment of 220 permanent staff within three years. half of them nurses. The company offers a telemedicine service, Satelia, which monitors patients with heart failure. Patients stay at home and report information on their smartphone: they fill in a questionnaire at regular intervals, answering questions about their general health, weight, or symptoms. As the application knows their health condition, if the answers are worrying it triggers warning signals, which are sent to their doctor. The doctor then decides what to do, whether to change the patient's treatment, see him or her for a consultation, or hospitalise the patient. The service is prescribed by a doctor and is fully reimbursed by social security. Half of the new positions will be for nurses, that will help patients enter data on Satelia. According to the company, the salaries that will be offered will be more attractive than in hospitals (€2,100 net for a full-time equivalent).
NP Medical was founded in 2017 and currently employs 54 people.
Eurofound (2022), NP Medical, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 106540, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106540.
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