With 15 million users, “all the lights are green” for Mon Espace Sante

With 15 million French people connected today and 500,000 more each month, "all the lights are green" for Mon Espace Sante, the digital health record, estimated Hela Ghariani, one of the program managers at the Ministry of Health, on Wednesday.

The French population is still far from being completely covered by this system launched almost three years ago, which aims to improve patient monitoring 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.

According to her, more and more hospitals, laboratories and health professionals are automatically uploading documents concerning their patients – hospitalization reports, biological analyses for example – to “My Health Space”.

Today, "three out of five health documents" produced in France are directly transferred to these devices, she declared, specifying that "60%" of health records also contain at least one document.

For “My Health Space”, one of the major objectives is now to develop its use by health professionals.

For the moment, "15 to 20,000 health professionals consult Mon Espace Sante" every month, and there are approximately 8 million consultations with professionals annually, indicated 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 that he already uses, explained Ms. Ghariani.

The presentation of the health space must also be improved, so that the professional immediately sees the documents of interest, without being drowned by irrelevant information, she explained.

According to the Observatory of Access to Digital Health published on Wednesday, 78% French people consider that digital technology is a good thing for access to health.

This level of trust remains high but has eroded compared to the previous edition, in 2021 (86%), according to the Observatory, which is based on a Harris Interactive survey carried out online among 3,000 people.