This is a digital health record. The interest? Rather than spending two hours finding your lost prescription, the x-ray you did 3 years ago, the name of that doctor who treated you for your angina… Everything will be gathered in one place, in your “health area“. Explanations about this new government device.
“My health space” to have everything at hand
For the time being, our vital card stores certain data and the practitioners we are going to see have our consultation files. The idea is to concentrate everything for the user: that he can quickly find from this space his past and future consultations (thanks to a medical diary), his prescriptions, his analysis results, his vaccines, his health insurance reimbursements, his x-rays… all of this accessible in one click.
We will therefore find our medical file, but also a health messaging service to exchange with the practitioners consulted, an agenda with upcoming medical appointments and a catalog of applications and services. The objective is to allow all French people to facilitate their course of care, to be able to testify to their history during an appointment with a specialist using medical documents.
Security concerns, mandatory or not?
Faced with concerns about hacking the space, or external access, for insurers for example, the government ensures that there are no risks, thanks to the security safe contained in the space. “The State, Health Insurance, insurance and mutual or even employers will have no access to the data”, stipulates the document published by the Ministry. The data is stored in France and strictly personal, only caregivers consulted and authorized by you can have access to it. Naturally, medical secrecy continues to be applied. Moreover, it is not mandatory to activate your health space, you can choose not to use it.
How to get it?
From January 31 until March 28, 2022, all policyholders affiliated with a French health insurance scheme (adults and minors) will be gradually informed by email or post of the opening of the My health space service and the terms of activation. Then, 6 weeks after the sending of the email or information letter, and in the absence of opposition on your part, the profile will be created. Those automatic creations will take place from mid-March to early May 2022. Then you can always change your mind.
If you had created your “shared medical file” in 2019, it will automatically be switched to your Health Space.
Source: Ministry of Solidarity and Health, press kit My Health Space, February 3, 2022.
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