It is finally with a month’s delay that My health space will begin to be deployed on February 3. As we explained recently, this is a new service concentrating a shared medical file, secure messaging, an agenda and a place to store medical data online. The mobile application is not yet available, so we will have to make do with the website.
An activation code sent
Concretely, a message will be sent to the 69 million French people by email or post by March 28 containing an activation code. But those who object to the creation of their account must react within six weeks of receiving the notification. Otherwise, their data will be archived for ten years by the Health Insurance. However, it is then possible at any time to close this same account.
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This is the so-called “opt-out” practice: you have to take a voluntary step to opt out. It probably explains the success of the pilot phase which took place in the departments of Haute-Garonne, Loire-Atlantique and Corse. There would have been only 0.17% refusal, according to AFP.
The challenge for the Ministry of Health is to avoid repeating the failure of the personal medical file, a project launched in 2004 and renamed Shared Medical File (DMP) which took a long time to succeed and remained marginal .