title: [Professional health cards (CPS): informatic health care system in France].
abstract: The Professional Health Card Public interest group (Groupement d'Intérêt Public-Carte de professionnel de Santé (GIP-CPS)) was founded in 1993 as a joint initiative by the different parties involved in health care in France: the state, the representatives of the health care professions and the compulsory and complementary health insurance organizations. The CPS system enables safe exchange and electronic sharing of medical data. Via Intranet connections and Extranet hosting of medical files, databases, the CPS system enables health care professionals who access servers to be identified with certainty. For email exhanges, the CPS systems guarantees the sender's identity and capacity. The electronic signature gives legal value to the email. The system also enables confidential email. The health card system (CPS) contributes to making the health service efficient. Shared medical files, health care networks, health warning systems or electronic requests for reimbursement of health insurance expenses all use the CPS system. More than 300,000 health care professionals use it regularly. The freedom of movement of patients throughout Europe has led to the growth of exchanges and information sharing between health professionals in the States of the Union. More and more health professionals will be leaving their own countries to work in foreign countries in the future. It is essential that their freedom of movement is accompanied by the ability to prove their rights to practice.
authors.affiliation: Pharmacie de l'Escarpelle, Flers-en-Escrebieux. pfortuit@nordnet.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fortuit
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D003142:Communication; D005060:Europe; D005602:France; D007348:Insurance, Health; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011634:Public Health