The personal medical record, a digital health record launched in 2004, would be a failure. Its implementation cost amounts to 500 million euros for barely 418,252 open files.
The personal medical file is a single computerized file containing medical reports, analysis results and treatments. It is accessible to all health professionals whom the patient consults and by the patient himself on the internet.
Little used by professionals, this computerized medical file has already cost 500 million euros. According to an internal document from the National Council for Quality and Coordination of Care, “the total amount of funding allocated by the FICQS (Intervention Fund for the Quality and Coordination of Care) for the development of the DMP ( personal medical file), since 2004, amounts to 500 million euros “.
The objective of the project set up by Philippe Douste-Blazy in 2004 was to reach 5 million open files at the end of 2013. But the official DMP site today announces only 418,252 files.
An alarming report already published in 2013
According to the Parisian, the Court of Auditors had already published an alarming report in February 2013 on the personal medical file. He estimated that it had already cost 210 million euros between 2005 and 2011 and that “because of failures attesting to a particularly abnormal lack of strategy and a serious lack of continuity of method in the implementation of ‘a tool announced as essential to the success of far-reaching structural reforms, the overall cost could exceed half a billion euros “.
The personal medical file relaunched in 2014
In this regard, Gérard Bapt, deputy PS for Haute-Garonne, specialist in health issues told AFP that “the minister having announced a new strategy and a new director of Asip-Santé, an agency of the ministry which manages As the DMP is being put in place, we can finally hope that new political guidance will allow mistakes to be avoided. It is not a question of putting in more money, but that each euro spent is a useful euro whereas today it is an endless well. “He also estimates that” from his point of view the cost of the person’s medical file has approached one billion euros since its launch. “
