Prevention: an initial positive assessment for Mon Espace Santé, the digital health record

Launched at the beginning of 2022 and funded as part of the Ségur du numérique, My health space is a digital platform piloted by the Ministry of Health and Prevention and by Health Insurance for French policyholders. This connected health record did not hide its ambition: to give citizens control over their health. By activating their space, everyone can then consult, add, organize their documents. A secure way to store them without risk of loss and to share them with healthcare professionals in complete confidentiality. In this month of November 2022, the first assessment drawn up is rather positive according to those concerned.

A growing grip on the numbers side

Thus informed of the automatic creation of their profile through a national campaign of sending e-mails and letters, the results announce it: only less than 2% of users opposed it. Today, 65.4 million people out of the 69 million beneficiaries of a health insurance plan therefore have a My Health Space profile, even if not everyone has yet activated it. The people (ie 7.2 million users) who have activated their profile have started to take advantage of the platform’s functionalities. They can consult, add, organize their documents. Since February 2022, 7,240,000 documents (medical certificates, biological results, hospital records, etc.) have been exchanged digitally and in complete security. A trend deemed “encouraging”. An application has also been available since the month of enamel to simplify exchanges even more.

New services to come

From this month of November and in the months to come, the Ministry of Health and Prevention and Health Insurance intend to improve their digital health record by adding new functions to better centralize information:

• From this month, a catalog of digital services referenced by the public authorities is expanding the proposed offer: establishment portal, prevention service, appointment booking platform may be present on the condition of meeting certain criteria. security surveys;
• Recourse to biometrics is envisaged in the coming months to gain access to the mobile application in order to facilitate access to data in complete security.
• The implementation of a digital health record for the child, dematerializing the 20 mandatory appointments is planned by the end of the year;
• Finally, in 2023, the notebook should also include an agenda to centralize all appointments in the same place and benefit from reminders.

12 applications already available

From this month of November 2022, a dozen applications are accessible from your health space or from your smartphone application ‘My Health Space’.

• FreeStyle LibreLinkfrom Abbott, an application of blood glucose monitoring associated with the FreeStyle Libre continuous blood glucose monitoring system (Abbott);
• The Ameli accountdeveloped the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam) for its users;
• The patient portal MyGHT Limousin, developed by the University Hospital of Limoges and the company Exolis (Hoppen group) for improve your reception ;
• AppFine from OpenXtrem, a administrative information exchange portal and medical conditions between patients and establishments
• ID-U Health of IDTAG, a patient record intended to the emergency services in case of emergency ;
• Libherosthe home care organization platform;
• mapathoan app that offers a “collaborative toolkit”, chronic disease news and resources;
• Child Health Memoa support tool for children’s health journeys developed by the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA)
• My medications at homei, a prescription drug delivery service from La Poste;
• The gate Health.fr the public health information service (SPIS);
• Vidal my health (Vidal group), the compliance assistance application;
• Withings Health Matea health tracking app from Withings.

In addition to these first 12 services, 258 others are in the instruction phase for referencing, according to the Minister of Health François Braun.