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# Market study

As a first step, we analyzed the market and interviewed stakeholders to analyze their needs.

**How we proceeded**

We first researched information about connected equipment in hospitals, related cybersecurity threats, related needs (including legislation) and how existing competitors are responding. 

Then, we distributed a questionnaire to hospitals and equipment manufacturers medical professionals to assess their needs. Faced with the lack of answers, we went to a more qualitative approach and we conducted interviews with CTO/CISO of a hospital group, a biomedical engineer and manufacturers. All those interviews were conducted in France.

We also presented them with a prototype application of management of updates for manufacturers of medical equipment, carried out in no-code on figma. We were able to improve it over time thanks to their feedback.

This allowed to highlight the pains that stakeholders currently have and allowed to carry out a specification of what would be necessary to address them.