#2026-523France Creates a New Directorate for Health Research, Innovation and Digital Health
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This decree creates a new central directorate inside the ministries responsible for health, social action and social security. Its job is to lead and coordinate government policy on digital health, health research and innovation across the healthcare and medico-social sectors. For hospitals, health agencies, research bodies, digital health providers and public authorities, this means a clearer national lead for priorities such as applied health research, biomedical research safety, rare disease plans, genomic medicine, digital health systems and healthcare innovation pilots. Organizations working with the state on health innovation should expect this new directorate to shape funding priorities, project calls, evaluations and national coordination.
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Key Changes
- Creates a new General Directorate for Health Research, Innovation and Digital Health within the relevant health and social security ministries
- Gives the directorate responsibility for coordinating national policy on digital health, applied health research and healthcare innovation
- Assigns it roles in research priorities, project funding calls, biomedical research safety, rare disease plans, genomic medicine and evaluation of innovation pilots
Obligations
What this law requires
The Directorate-General for Health Research, Innovation and Digital Health must develop, implement and coordinate ministerial policy on digital health, health research and innovation across the health and medico-social sectors.
The Directorate-General must conduct forward-looking monitoring to identify scientific, technological and organizational developments likely to affect the health system and health or medico-social care delivery.
The Directorate-General must coordinate at national level the prospective health-related actions carried out by competent agencies and authorities, including regional health agencies.
The Directorate-General must pilot national plans relating to rare diseases and genomic medicine.
The Directorate-General, jointly with the ministry responsible for higher education and research, must define and implement the national health research strategy, including setting priorities, organization and funding for applied health research.