In February 2010, the government launched IDéNum, a programme for the creation of highly secure single electronic identity that would replace the many online identification means (including electronic certificates, passwords, logins, etc) required for using web services.
Weiterlesen: FR: Internet identification - IDéNum single eIdentity certificate on the right track
Mr Jacquinet made the announcement at a symposium that took place in Marseille marking the anniversary of the establishment of the ARS.
"We will pilot teleconsultation for inmates in one of the penal institutions in the region," said Mr Jaquinet at a telehealth roundtable. He noted that the ARS Picardy is currently deliberating over the issue, which falls under the framework of the national plan for access to healthcare in prisons, and in the context of the growing demand for healthcare and specialised expertise in prisons.
With 5 800 residents, the Cilaos commune is one of the most isolated areas on Réunion Island. Since November 2007, the commune's only hospital has been providing emergency care via telemedicine in cooperation with Unit 15 of the South Reunion Hospital Group (GHSR) in Saint-Pierre, which is 45 km away, but requires a travel time of 90 minutes along an abrupt route.
DISIC, placed under the authority of the Prime Minister and connected to the Secretary General for the Government, was established by Decree No 2011-193, thus replacing the National Steering Committee for Information Systems (CPNSI) which had been set up in June 2009. The DISIC project, which was led for over eighteen months by the Directorate-General for State Modernisation (Direction Générale de la Modernisation de l'Etat - DGME, in French), will allow the government to deploy an enhanced IT governance, but also a greater consistency in IT choices for the administration, as well as a larger representation of its technological positions internationally.
Weiterlesen: FR: Directorate created to enhance government ICT services
“This mode of exercise [telemedicine] is a response to the medical demography inequalities: where health care resources may be more rare, mainly in isolated areas (islands, rural areas, mountain areas, suburbs, prisons),” a spokesperson from France’s Direction générale de l’offre de soins (DGOS), writes in an email, while insisting on anonymity.