To support clinical research, Foch Hospital will open its own health data warehouse in January

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From 1 January 2020, the Foch Hospital in Suresnes (92) will have its own health data warehouse (EDS). This database will integrate the administrative and medical information of more than 500,000 patients hospitalized or coming to the institution to consult since 2003 (date of the first digitized medical file). Thus, it should count five million documents, including records of consultation and hospitalization, biology data or medical imaging documents.

The ambition of this new tool is twofold: "Improve the search for more or less rare diagnoses and delays in accessing clinical trials"says Elisabeth Hulier Ammar, Director of Clinical Research, which will be available to all researchers after validation by the hospital's ethics committee.

A prediction tool

The hospital Foch also hopes that this database will create "a prediction tool"The state of health and possible relapses of transplant patients.In fact, this hospital opened its University Chair in Transplantation in 2018 to precisely address this issue.

As regards so-called "sensitive" data, the project was submitted to the National Commission for Informatics and Liberties (Cnil) which validated it on October 14, 2019. In addition, in accordance with the legislation in force, the patient will be informed that their medical information may be reused for research purposes. With this tool, the hospital Foch continues its breakthrough in the health of the future. On November 4, 2018, he launched the "Alert'AVC" geolocation application to reduce the time to treat stroke by coordinating team work.

A multiplication of health databases

The opening of databases attached to hospitals is starting to grow. It is the hospital group Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux com Paris (AP-HP) which was the first establishment to receive approval to create its own database in January 2017. This movement was followed by the University Hospital Center of Paris. Grenoble, then that of Lille. This trend responds to a more global problem: health data is a common heritage that must be used to access a predictive and highly personalized medicine.

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