The Health Minister unveiled Tuesday the new version of the shared medical record, tested in nine departments for two years.

Health Minister Agnès Buzyn invites all French to "get open" a digital health record or shared medical record (DMP), on the eve of the generalization of this device driven by the Health Insurance.

"I ask all French people to go and get" a DMP "either on the internet (...) by typing 'shared medical file' or 'my medical file', or at their pharmacist's," said the minister, guest of the show Audition public (LCP / Public Sénat / Le Figaro / AFP).

One million already opened notebooks

The deployment of the DMP was entrusted to the Health Insurance in 2016 by the health law of Marisol Touraine, after a decade of expensive procrastination. Tested in nine departments since 2016, the DMP will be deployed "throughout the country , " said the minister, which will officially launch its new version Tuesday.

"I'm going to pay tribute to my predecessors, it's thanks to their successive failures that I may be able to succeed," the minister joked. "We understood from these failures what was dysfunctional," she said.

Referring to the figure of "one million diaries" already open, the minister praised "a very important tool of communication between professionals" health.

"The French choose the doctors or the physiotherapists or the nurses who will have access" to their file, insisted the minister.

Will doctors play the game?

But will GPs play the game by feeding these files? "I think they are very demanding," she said, because "it avoids doing acts twice because we do not have a result," or "to know all acts that have been performed on a patient, even if he has been seen urgently in another region " , to know the patient's " antecedents " and to " centralize " all his health information, the minister replied.

The DMP must garner "time savings, perhaps savings" by streamlining care. But "before being a tool of savings it is above all a tool of information sharing to make the best medicine, it is the security of the care" , assured Agnès Buzyn.