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Next year, the French should be able to dematerialize their Vitale card via a dedicated application or via France Idété. However, this will not be compulsory and the physical Vitale card will obviously continue to be fully valid.
Today, the Carte Vitale application is being tested in around twenty departments. Thanks to contactless technology, it allows access from your smartphone to the same services as the physical version, from professionals (medical consultation, delivery of medicines to the pharmacy, etc.) and health establishments (interventions, hospitalization. ..). The application also allows access to monitoring of healthcare expenses incurred. Unlike the physical Vitale card, the dematerialized Vitale card on this application is always up to date.
The application is already available for free on Google Play (Android) and the App Store (iOS), but to be able to benefit from it now, you must be over 16 years old, have an ameli account and live one of the 23 departments concerned by this test phase*. By the end of 2025, all policyholders should be able to benefit from it, but the application will not replace the physical Vitale card, which you should keep with you.
But that’s not all. According to The Parisianthe government would also like to integrate the Vitale card into the France Identity application, developed by the National Agency for Secure Titles (ANTS) and which allows you to prove your identity online. The objective here would be to link your Vitale card directly to your national electronic identity card (CNIe), in their dematerialized versions. As a reminder, in addition to the identity card, it is also possible to integrate your dematerialized driving license.
In all cases, the aim is to ensure that the user of a Vitale card is indeed its owner, with the aim of ultimately reducing fraud, without having to replace all the cards in circulation or to merge them with identity cards.
* Ain, Allier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Bas-Rhin, Bouches-du-Rhône, Cantal, Drôme, Hautes-Alpes, Haute-Loire, Haute-Savoie, Isère, Loire, Loire -Atlantique, Puy-de-Dôme, Rhône, Saône-et-Loire, Sarthe, Savoie, Seine-Maritime, Var and Vaucluse.