The shared medical file returns to the front of the stage on the occasion of the 70 years of Social Security. The system should be rolled out across the country within two years.
The personal medical record project, renamed shared medical record, is not a recent invention. Launched in 2004 by the Ministry of Health, it aims to have the medical file of each French person computerized.
The idea behind this health record 2.0: to provide quick and easy access to all the patient information needed by healthcare professionals. Despite significant investments, the system had never been successfully deployed across the country.
Health Insurance in charge
Last year, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the launch of this project, The Parisian had reported that it had cost 500 million euros, for only 418,011 file openings out of the five million planned.
But things seem about to change. Indeed, on the occasion of the 70 years of Social Security on Tuesday, Nicolas Revel, Director General of the National Health Insurance Fund, explained that it would take over the file, within the framework of the health law. . He then announced that the system would finally be deployed everywhere in France, within two years.
Smartphone app
This centralization of medical data on the Web should facilitate communication between the various doctors, in town and at the hospital, but also the dissemination of information to the patient.
Especially since it will be accompanied by a smartphone application, designed to remind users of their entire medical history, the treatments they must take, and the information and contact details of the doctors they have met.
To set up this system, the Health Insurance could draw inspiration from what has already been done in other countries, in particular in the United States, one of the first countries to have introduced this type of digital medical record.
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