Subsection 1: General provisions.

The Agence Technique de l’Information sur l’Hospitalisation is responsible for : 1° Piloting, implementing and making available to third parties the system for collecting medico-economic activity and data from health care institutions referred to in Article L. 6113-8 , as well as processing the information referred to in the same article; 1° bis Drawing up, collecting, processing and making available to third parties the data relating to the performance scoreboard…

The agency, a public administrative body, is placed under the supervision of the ministers of health, social affairs and social security.

To carry out its tasks, the agency may in particular: 1° Acquire the necessary movable or immovable property; 2° Allocate, from its own budget and within the framework of agreements approved by its Board of Directors, grants, loans or advances to public or private entities carrying out studies, research, works or projects contributing to the fulfilment of its missions; 3° To co-operate, in particular by means of agreements or participation…