6th digital breakfast at the French National Assembly on the theme of e-health

Gilles Mezari, Director of Syntec Numérique, and the three co-chairs of the Comité Santé, Pascal Becache, Arnault Billy and Franck Toufaili, presented the work of the joint committee of Syntec Numérique and TECH IN France, and the sector’s proposals for accelerating digital transformation in healthcare, to members of parliament.

What you need to know:

• Artificial intelligence, open healthcare data and digital tools and applications are revolutionizing the relationship between healthcare and the patient, and medicine as a whole.

E-health has many benefits for patients, healthcare professionals and public authorities. Digital technology rehumanizes the patient-caregiver relationship through personalized follow-up. This is all the more important in medical deserts, where this relationship had previously disappeared.

• Generally speaking, e-health should be seen as a tool for more predictive medicine: digital technology also has a strong ambition to invent an effective response to the challenges facing the healthcare sector, and accelerate the shift towards so-called “5P” medicine: personalized, preventive, predictive, participative and evidence-based.

The health crisis linked to Covid-19 shows the resilience of our healthcare system and the importance of digital healthcare, particularly through telemedicine or telehealth, to relieve pressure on hospitals. Digital technology is also present in the use of software to manage emergency services, or through hospital planning, patient and epidemic monitoring tools. Last but not least, vaccine supply logistics require digital systems.

We therefore need to take advantage of the coming period to learn the lessons from the management of the health crisis:

• To achieve sustainable improvements in the organization and operation of the healthcare system, it is essential to rely on digital technology, both for the players involved and for their solutions.
• To strengthen the healthcare sector’s digital culture and support users and healthcare staff in their use of digital tools, we need to set up a genuine digital training program.
• enable better articulation and service to patients. The fragmentation of the e-health sector has led to the compartmentalization of public and private players (GHT, private clinics and associations, but also primary care, pharmacies and Ehpad).

Read our joint reaction to the Ségur healthcare agreements and our proposals in the75proposals to accompany their work on the economic recovery plan.