Transparency : a new paradigm ?
Seance of wednesday 04 june 2025 (Evolution du système de santé)
DOI number : 10.26299/7akh-he50/2025.21.06
Abstract
The French Healthcare System has a number of advantages when it comes to using medical data : one of the largest healthcare databases in the world, data exhaustiveness linked to the status of The French National Health Insurance, data centralization linked to the history of French centralization, and virtually free access to data. However, France is lagging far behind in the routine use of its medical data, particularly in comparison with Anglo-Saxon countries, which have a culture of steering by health indicators and a culture of results, or with other French administrations such as the Ministry of Education, which publishes results indicators for its high schools every year.
Is transparency in the use of medical data the new paradigm? Can charts, rankings and benchmarks be vectors for change and improvement in practices, particularly surgical practices ? A new paradigm or an old one that's lasted too long? The road to transparency and use of healthcare data has been a long one, as shown by the feedback from the launch of the French tools HOSPIDIAG and VISUCHIR. And it's not over yet.
Is transparency in the use of medical data the new paradigm? Can charts, rankings and benchmarks be vectors for change and improvement in practices, particularly surgical practices ? A new paradigm or an old one that's lasted too long? The road to transparency and use of healthcare data has been a long one, as shown by the feedback from the launch of the French tools HOSPIDIAG and VISUCHIR. And it's not over yet.