Health : the government is investing in the digital

Jacques Witt / Sipa/SIPA

Published the 26.09.2017 at 18: 44

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It was one of the campaign promises of Emmanuel Macron : launch an investment plan to transform and modernize the country. Presented this Monday, September 25, by the Prime minister, the General Plan of Investment (GPI) is ambitious. With 57 billion euros, it will “accelerate the adaptation of the France of the 21st century,” said Edouard Philippe.

It will aim to address the challenge of ecological transition (20 billion euros), access to employment ($15 billion), innovation ($13 billion) and the shift to digital ($9 billion).

The Building of a State in the era of the digital will be in the first place the world health. “Our system of health and social security must also be transformed to incorporate new technologies, meet the challenges of the territory and find a financial balance,” says Matignon.
A sum of 4.9 billion will be mobilized over 5 years to accelerate the digitization of the health system and social cohesion, to develop the health homes in areas with a shortage of physicians, to upgrade hospital equipment and to support medical research.

A digital hospital

The plan provides for, for example, to accelerate the digital transformation of health care institutions. It is, for example, to extend the making an appointment online or payment online. Patients will also benefit from ” information on the hospitalization of their loved ones or their personal medical file “.

The idea is also to create a link between the hospital and the health professionals liberals, so that information about patients to be shared more easily. This program with € 420 million will take the rest of the program digital Hospital launched n 2012 by Marisol Touraine.

The minister of Health, Agnes Buzyn, should propose a plan of ‘deployment of digital technology in health” before the end of the year 2017, according to its roadmap unveiled on Tuesday 26 September.