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Article L1470-1 of the French Public Health Code

The digital health services governed by this Title are information systems or digital services or tools implemented by natural or legal persons governed by public or private law, including health insurance organisations, offered by electronic means, which contribute to preventive, diagnostic, care or medical or medico-social monitoring activities, or to interventions necessary for the coordination of several of these activities. The users of digital health services are: 1° Health professionals…

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Article L1470-2 of the French Public Health Code

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…

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Article L1470-3 of the French Public Health Code

The ministers responsible for health and social action, or where applicable the minister responsible for defence, shall make available to professionals, both natural and legal persons, working in the health, social and medico-social sectors the means of electronic identification, whether tangible or intangible, enabling the use of digital health services. The characteristics of these means of electronic identification and the procedures for making them available and using them shall be…

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Article L1470-4 of the French Public Health Code

The provision of electronic means of identification is subject to the prior registration of professionals in the sector reference directory of natural persons or in the sector reference directory of legal entities administered by the public interest group mentioned in article L. 1111-24. The ministers responsible for health, social action and defence define by decree the conditions for implementing the sectorial reference directory of natural persons and the sectorial reference…

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Article L1470-5 of the French Public Health Code

In order to guarantee the exchange, sharing, security and confidentiality of personal health data, the digital health services intended for use by the legal entities and natural persons mentioned in 1° and 2° of Article L. 1470-1 must comply with the interoperability and security reference frameworks drawn up by the public interest grouping mentioned in Article L. 1111-24, for the processing of this data, its storage on electronic media and…

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Article L1470-6 of the French Public Health Code

The compliance of an information system or digital health service or tool with the interoperability reference systems mentioned in Article L. 1470-5 is attested as part of an assessment and certification procedure defined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat. The allocation of public funds dedicated to financing the design, acquisition or renewal of information systems or digital health services or tools intended for use by the legal entities and individuals…

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