suspicion of conflict of interest with the ISD

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The article reports "possible deviations from the IT department" and notes that "other departments of the AP-HP (purchasing, human resources) have been alerted in writing for three years of possible criminal risks, without however react to these suspicious orders up to 1.8 million euros including tax. "

The director of the center of skills and services, patient area, at the ISD, Philippe Bourhis, recruited to accelerate the deployment of the Orbis computerized patient record (DPI) developed by the company Agfa Healthcare, would have found himself in a conflict of interest .

He "was a partner, president of a subsidiary (until September 2014) and a shareholder in one of the control holdings of the IT consultancy group EI-Technologies, whose 95% subsidiary EI-Management is likely to work with 'AP-HP ", writes Mediapart.

When he was hired in January 2016, "it was agreed that Philippe Bourhis would sell his 140,000 euros worth of shares in one of the holding companies that control EI-Technologies," AP-HP management told the news site.

However, he "will not sell his shares until the summer of 2017, more than a year and a half after being hired" because "he could not find a buyer," says Mediapart.

The information site also reveals that several contracts related to the patient information system (SIP) won by different companies have been subcontracted to EI-Management, a subsidiary of EI-Technologies in which Philippe Bourhis was indirect shareholder until l summer 2017.

The digital services company Sopra Steria, the consulting firm Mazars and the company specializing in IT security Advens have thus delegated part of their public contracts to EI-Management.

Contacted by Mediapart, Sopra Steria and Advens did not wish to comment. Mazars said it had "fully complied with the legal and regulatory framework".

Finally, the article reveals that the ISD has put in place "a virtual coach, which uses Watson artificial intelligence technology developed by IBM", to help hospital staff use Orbis. However, Philippe Bourhis "is an IBM alumnus and his son worked at the time, according to his LinkedIn profile," within the Watson & Cloud Computing 'entity of the company ".

Philippe Bourhis’s son "worked well at IBM, but he was only in cloud computing, unrelated to Watson and the AP-HP," the latter said.

The conclusions of an internal investigation expected in a month

Regarding all the advanced elements, the AP-HP assured "that no internal alert has ever been raised to the general management, which would not have been informed until September when receiving questions from the CRC ".

In a press release sent to APMnews (site of the APM International group of which TICsanté is a part) on December 16 afternoon, the AP-HP said that an internal investigation had been opened in response to questions from the regional chamber of accounts.

Still in progress, this investigation does not "reveal at this stage any current practice contrary to the law or criminally reprehensible (favoritism, illegal taking of interests). If that were to be the case at the end of the investigation, the justice would be seized, "she said. Its conclusions "are expected within one month," it said.

The AP-HP nevertheless admitted "that certain procedures deserve to be better secured, in particular in terms of prevention of conflicts of interest".

In response, the institution is preparing to "increase the number of people" who must complete an expression of interest.

She added that "a procedure will be set up in the next 10 days to declare the links of interest for the agents most involved in the public order procedures, primarily in the area of ​​IT markets".

Finally, she underlined that "the elements do not reveal an additional cost for the AP-HP", recalling that "the choice of subcontractors, which is up to the contractor, has no influence on the amount of the contract, concluded after tender ".

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