Your fitness watch will soon be reimbursed by Health Insurance?

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And if your smart health connected watch, your fitness bracelet or your tracker clothes were soon reimbursed by the Social Security? A report on smart health connected objects presented on January 10, 2017 to the Committee on Economic Affairs of the National Assembly recommends the support "at least partial" by the health insurance of objects participating in the prevention policy for vulnerable populations . If it is still a report, it points to an interesting problem. How can public health policies support the development of smart health connected objects?

Develop an e-health strategy

smart health connected objects are becoming increasingly important in all aspects of our lives. If they can raise concerns in terms of data protection or hacking, in the domain of health, they bring a more undeniable. Parliamentarians have therefore decided to take up the subject. A report presented by Corinne Erhel (PS, Côtes d'Armor) and Laure com la Raudière (LR, Eure-et-Loir), details the economic potential of smart health connected objects, in particular by analyzing the data they generate. . For them, Public policies should be the next major beneficiaries of the Internet of Things. Public health policies could thus to reconfigure itself around the data that individuals will measure and make available to the health sector to improve control of their health status, the spread of diseases or encourage the fight against risky behavior.

In fact, the deputies consider that smart health connected objects in the field of health encourage users to "To adopt a virtuous behavior". Thus, if the movement is encouraged, it could also allow Health Insurance to save money. 

Health Insurance could partially repay

MPs therefore recommend develop an e-health prevention strategy for fragile populations or those particularly exposed to health risks.

Among the strategies envisaged, the reimbursement of smart health connected objects. A solution that they believe would also have the advantage of fighting against the digital divide and the problem of the cost of access to smart health connected objects.

A report that echoes the tribune of Pierre Simon, the former president of the telemedicine company SFT Antel who published the book "Telemedicine, Issues and Practices" on October 19, 2015. He stressed that "The smart health connected healthcare market would thus experience development difficulties due to insufficient demand from the French population, a framework of trust for health professionals (to be comforted) so that they prescribe health objects. smart health connected ".

It will now be necessary to see if this report is transformed into a bill and adopted by the National Assembly. As the presidential election draws closer, it is undoubtedly a matter that will concern the next government.

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