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With 15 million French people connected today and 500,000 more each month, “all the lights are green” for Mon Espace Santé, the digital health record, estimated Wednesday Hela Ghariani, one of the program managers at the Ministry of Health. Health.
The French population is still far from being fully covered by this system launched almost three years ago, which aims to better monitor patients by allowing caregivers to have access at any time to the history of their care and examinations.
But the number of people who have activated their digital health record continues to grow, with 15 million people connected, compared to 11 million at the start of 2024, argued Ms. Ghariani, on the sidelines of a conference of the Observatory of access to digital health.
More and more hospitals, laboratories and health professionals are automatically uploading documents concerning their patients – hospitalization reports, biological analyzes for example – to “My Health Space”, according to her.
Today, “three out of five health documents” produced in France are placed directly on these devices, she declared, specifying that “60%” of health records also contain at least one document.
For “My health space”, one of the main objectives is now to develop use by health professionals.
For the moment, “15 to 20,000 health professionals consult My Health Space” every month, and there are around 8 million professional consultations annually, said Ms. Ghariani.
But this use often remains technically complicated. “We are working with (medical) software publishers” so that the consultation of data by the practitioner is “super fluid”, from the software they already use, explained Ms. Ghariani.
The presentation of the health area must also improve, so that the professional immediately sees the documents of interest, without being drowned out by irrelevant information, she explained.
According to the Observatory of Access to Digital Health published on Wednesday, 78% of French people consider that digital technology is a good thing for access to health.
This capital of trust remains high but has eroded compared to the previous edition, in 2021 (86%), according to the Observatory, which is based on an interactive Harris survey carried out online among 3,000 people.