Artificial Intelligence And Health Data: The French Ambition

On 21 March 2019, the Parliamentary Office for the Assessment of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST) published the report of a public hearing¹ on the subject of artificial intelligence and health data, as part of the draft French law on the organisation and transformation of the health system.

Then Law No. 2019-774 on the organization and transformation of the health system was adopted on 24 July 2019². Title III of the law is devoted to the "development of digital ambition in the health sector", a challenge to be met quickly.

I THE CHALLENGE OF PROTECTING AND ENHANCING HEALTH DATA

The debate at OPECST focused on the 2 pillars of the health 4.0 section of the draft law, namely the creation of (i) a Health Data Platform (HDP) or "Health Data Hub" replacing the INDS³ and (ii) a Digital Health Space (DHS) for the patient succeeding the DMP (Shared Medical Record), as envisaged in articles 11 and 12 of the draft law.