The processing of personal data known as the National Health Data System (SNDS), instituted in Article L. 1461-1, is implemented by the Health Data Platform, mentioned in Article L. 1462-1, and the National Health Insurance Fund under the conditions set out in this chapter.
Its purpose, in application of the provisions of Article L. 1461-1, is to enable the data it gathers to be made available under the conditions defined in Articles L. 1461-2 to L. 1461-6 in order to contribute to:
1° Information on health as well as on the supply of care, medico-social care and their quality, and the orientation of users in the health system, by enabling the comparison of care practices, equipment and the fees of health establishments and professionals ;
2° The definition, implementation and evaluation of health and social protection policies, by helping to identify patients’ care pathways, monitor and evaluate their state of health and their consumption of care and social support services, analyse patients’ social security cover, and monitor care consumption in relation to public health indicators or health risks;
3° A knowledge of health expenditure, health insurance expenditure and medico-social expenditure, by making it possible to analyse health insurance expenditure by geographical area, by type of expenditure, by category of professional or prescriber and by professional or establishment, health insurance expenditure in relation to the sectoral expenditure targets set, as part of the national health insurance expenditure target, by the social security financing laws, quantitative analysis of the determinants of the supply of care and measurement of their impact on changes in health insurance expenditure;
4° Informing healthcare professionals, structures and health or medico-social establishments about their activity, by enabling the transmission to healthcare providers of relevant information relating to their activity, their income and, where applicable, their prescriptions, and making available to their representatives data which do not reveal the identity of healthcare professionals;
5° Health surveillance, monitoring and safety, by developing the observation of the state of health of populations, the evaluation and production of indicators relating to the state of health of the population and the analysis of their variation in time and space, the detection of unusual health events which may represent a threat to public health and the evaluation of their possible links with exposure factors and the evaluation of public health actions;
6° Research, studies, evaluation and innovation in the fields of health and medico-social care.
The data in the national health data system is hosted within the European Union. No personal data may be transferred outside the European Union, except in the case of one-off access to data by persons located outside the European Union, for a purpose covered by 1° of I of Article L. 1461-3.