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ASIP Santé creates ethics and professional conduct council
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On 12 May, the ASIP Santé management board appointed the members of the ethics and
professional conduct council, the creation of which is provided for in article 10 of the agency's constituent agreement.
Chaired by Jacques Lucas, the representative of the president of the French Medical Association (CNOM), its vice-president is Christian Saout, who is president of the CISS group of
French health associations. The council has 16 members in total, both male and female,
from a range of fields including research, medicine, education, journalism and ethics.
Through its advice and the work it does, the ethics and professional conduct council will
contribute to the development of information systems which ensure that personal health data is protected. Since this data is sensitive, it is essential to guarantee that they will only be
used for the benefit of the patient.
Paris, 17 May 2010 – On the basis of article 10 of ASIP Santé's constituent agreement, the management
board, which met on 12 May, has just appointed the 16 members of the ASIP Santé ethics and professional
conduct council.
In accordance with ASIP Santé's constituent agreement, it is chaired by a representative of the CNOM – the
association's vice-president Jacques Lucas – alongside a users' representative – Christian Saout, president of the CISS.
Jean Massot, a state councillor and member of France's data protection commission (CNIL), and Dr
Philippe Biclet, president of the approvals committee for health data hosting, also sit on the council as
members representing institutions.
The qualified public figures on the ethics and professional conduct council are:
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Michel Alberganti, science journalist, France Culture radio producer and essayist;
Philippe Amiel, sociologist with a doctorate in law, researcher and teacher of health sociology, director of the humanities and social sciences department at the Institut Gustave Roussy and member of the ethics and cancer council;
Professor Hubert Allemand, professor of public health and national medical officer of the French
national health insurance fund for salaried employees (CNAMTS);
Dr François Baumann, general practitioner, founder of the general practitioners' training association (SFTG), and founder and vice-president of the working group on day-to-day medical ethics
(GREMQ);
Dominique Frering, healthcare manager, Lyon public hospitals group, Edouard Herriot teaching
hospital;
Dr Elisabeth Hubert, president of the hospital-at-home organization (FNEHAD) and former minister of state;
Marie-Josée Keller, president of the French midwives association;
Monique Ricomes, director of human resources at the Paris hospitals authority (AP-HP);
Dr Brigitte Lacour, director of the national register of children with solid carcinoma,
Nancy teaching hospital, Vandoeuvre faculty of medicine;
Corine Pelluchon, holder of the aggregation qualification and doctor of philosophy, and reader in
philosophy at the University of Poitiers;
Nathalie Tellier, policy officer at the French union of family associations;
Dr Pascale Vassal, vice-president of the French association of ethical review boards, palliative
care department of the Saint-Etienne teaching hospital.
This council is made up of equal numbers of men and women.
The ethics and professional conduct council assists ASIP Santé's management board and its director.
With its independent jurisdictional powers, the ethics and professional conduct council issues
opinions and recommendations to the management board and the director, in a fully independent
manner, on aspects of ethical and professional conduct relating to projects and services managed
or supervised by ASIP Santé.
One of the first missions for the ethics and professional conduct council will be to study and formulate an
opinion on the "Guide to Good Practice for Obtaining Patient Consent" which it will receive from the ASIP
Santé working group tasked with drafting it. Working together to improve healthcare
About ASIP Santé
The shared healthcare information systems agency is a state agency that
reports to the French Ministry of Health and Sports. Its objective is to promote
the development of information systems in the health and medico-social
sectors.
ASIP Santé's role is to help improve the coordination and quality of healthcare.
A key player and a unifying force in France’s e-healthcare sector, its missions
range from designing and rolling out health information systems such as the
electronic health record (DMP) and telemedicine projects, to managing the
health professional card (CPS) project.
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ASIP Santé is also tasked with defining, promoting and harmonizing frameworks, products and services that contribute to the
interoperability, security and usage of healthcare and telehealth
information systems.
In addition, ASIP Santé organizes the implementation of support
services for users of health information systems.
Anne-Adélaïde Seguy
01 58 45 32 90
anne-adelaide.seguy@sante.gouv.fr
Chrystèle Moriceau
01 44 59 68 95
c.moriceau@ligaris.eu