Digital health record: how this platform created to simplify patients’ lives works

Onze millions de Français ont adopté Mon espace santé, le carnet de santé numérique. L. D. – MIDI LIBRE

"My health space" was born two years ago. This digital health record which allows you to keep all your documents online and is now used by around 16% of French people.

Eleven million French people have adopted My health space, the digital health record, according to figures published this Monday, February 5, 2024 by the digital health delegation (DNS), cited by the Huffington Post.

"Every week, 300,000 people log in to use My Health Space, to consult it or to upload documents", indicates Hela Ghariani who co-leads this delegation, quoted by RMC.

Launched in February 2022, this recent service replaces the Shared Medical File (DMP) and allows socially insured people to store their medical documents and interact with health professionals in particular.< /p>

Open for all French people

Each social insured person has a "My Health Space" in their name, automatically populated, unless they' opposes it. The account is open for all French people, even minors, specifies Le Parisien.

All documents in one place

Biological analysis results, hospitalization or consultation report, prescription… all health documents can be kept in the same place. This digital safe should facilitate patient care, with professionals having easier access to care and examination histories.

Today, 20 million health documents are sent every month to these digital spaces.

The application allowing access to one's Health Space via smartphone has been downloaded 2.5 million times, according to the Digital Health Delegation (DNS).< /p>

82% of French people say they know My Health Space, according to a 2024 barometer on the French and digital health published Monday by the DNS. This barometer was carried out online in November 2023 by Harris Interactive, with a representative sample of 2,000 people, underlines the Huffington Post.< /p>

Criticisms issued

Criticisms about the functioning of My Health Space have already been made, particularly with regard to respect for private life.

"It is essential that any person can delete or archive their medical data according to their own judgment", had underlined& nbsp;Marianne Benoit-Truong Canh, secretary general of the National Council of the Order of Midwives, in a column in Monde, June 2, 2023.