The use of digital health services requires electronic identification of their users. This electronic identification is based on a means, whether tangible or intangible, which guarantees an appropriate level of security and protection for the personal data processed by the digital health service concerned.
A set of standards, drawn up by order of the ministers responsible for health and social action, determines the categories of digital health services based in particular on the purposes of the service, the type of data processed, the number of users likely to access the service, its national or regional dimension and, where applicable, the fact that the service benefits users who are health professionals working simultaneously for several legal entities.
This reference system specifies, for each category of user and for each category of digital health service:
1° The minimum guarantee level required for electronic identification, with regard to the technical specifications and minimum procedures provided for in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1502 of 8 September 2015 laying down the technical specifications and minimum procedures relating to guarantee levels for the means of electronic identification referred to in Article 8, (3) of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, being able, where appropriate, to add additional requirements to the so-called “low” guarantee level ;
2° For professionals, the required means of electronic identification.