To accelerate the digital transition and reduce inequalities in access to healthcare, the government is allocating a budget of 5 billion euros over 5 years.
It was one of Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promises: to launch an investment plan to transform and modernize the country. Presented this Monday, September 25 by the Prime Minister, the Large Investment Plan (GPI) is ambitious. Endowed with 57 billion euros, it will “accelerate France’s adaptation to the 21th century ”, declared Edouard Philippe.
Its objective will be to meet the challenge of ecological transition (20 billion euros), access to employment (15 billion), innovation (13 billion) and the digital shift (9 billion).
The Building of a State in the digital age will primarily concern the world of health. “Our health and social security system must also be transformed to integrate new technologies, meet the challenges of the territory and find a financial balance,” says Matignon.
A budget of 4.9 billion will be mobilized over 5 years to accelerate the digitization of the health and social cohesion system, to develop nursing homes in areas lacking doctors, to modernize hospital equipment and to support medical research .
A digital hospital
The plan foresees, for example, to accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare establishments. This involves, for example, extending online appointment booking or online payment. The patients will also benefit from “information on the hospitalization of their relatives or their personal medical file”.
The idea is also to create a link between the hospital and liberal health professionals so that information on patients is shared more easily. This 420 million euros program will follow on from the Digital Hospital program launched in 2012 by Marisol Touraine.
The Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, should propose a plan for “deployment of digital health” before the end of 2017, according to her roadmap unveiled on Tuesday, September 26.
Deploy telemedicine
Another investment: telemedicine. The government is counting on this solution to ensure the organization of care throughout the territory and reduce inequalities in access to a doctor. As part of the GPI, 50 million euros will be invested over 5 years. They will be used, in particular, to develop the necessary digital equipment and the possibilities of remote payment and reading of the vital card. Measures will have to be implemented “from 2018”, specifies the roadmap.
THE GPI also plans to invest 400 million euros to promote the development of nursing homes and health centers. The objective is to respect Emmanuel Macron’s promise to double the number of these structures at the end of the five-year term. “Today, there are nearly 930 health centers and 350 multi-professional health centers in the territory,” says the report.
All these reforms will have to be carried out within the framework of the ONDAM, according to Agnès Buzyn’s roadmap. Details will be provided during the presentation of the finance bill and the 2018 Social Security financing bill on September 27 and 28.
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