The personalized medical file is a single computerized file containing medical reports, analysis results and treatments. It is accessible to all health professionals that the patient consults and by the patient himself on the Internet. Expected for more than 10 years, it will be implemented within two years and deployed throughout France, according to a statement by Nicolas Revel, the director general of the National Health Insurance Fund.
Technology at the service of health
This file will be available for consultation through an ultra-secure smartphone application that will allow patients and health professionals to have information on their health, the medications they take, and a follow-up of consultations.
“It is designed to allow healthcare professionals, in private practice and in hospitals, to share useful and easily accessible information. It must also be an opportunity for our policyholders to have feedback according to simple”, recalled Mr. Revel.
A controversial case
This personal medical file is a digital health record that was launched in 2004. Little used by professionals, it would have already cost 500 million euros. According to an internal document from the National Council for the Quality and Coordination of Care published in 2014, “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 files opened at the end of 2013. But the official website of the DMP announces today only 418,252 files.
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