What steps, how it works, what efficiency … The digital vital card in five questions – Liberation

The digitization on the move. The vital card is now available on smartphone For all social policyholders with the France Identity application, The Ministry of Health and Health Insurance said on Tuesday March 18. But the app does not completely replace the green card, the system should not be generalized until the end of 2025.

The arguments for digitization are known. Everyone – or almost – having a smartphone permanently on yourself, why clog something else? «  »Complement»Of the physical card, Vitale card on smartphone « Allows (to have it) permanently on yourself, in your phone, with your rights always up to date »explains health insurance. « It can be used in the same situations as the physical vital card with healthcare professionals, during a medical consultation, for the issuance of drugs at the pharmacy »continues health insurance. Another mass argument, « It thus limits the consequences of forgetting or loss of the physical vital card » – Certainly, but it does nothing for discharged batteries or other attempt at digital withdrawal … Ultimately, the vital card on smartphone can even integrate the user's additional health insurance and therefore allow the third party to it. Also ultimately, the vital card on smartphone will allow you to connect to my health space, the digital health book.

But there is another goal, that of a more effective cop. Digitization allows you to cross « Another stage in the fight against social fraud« Said The Minister responsible for health and access to care, Yannick Neuder. « Digitalization strengthens authentication and thus protects our health system by ensuring that services benefit more easily to good people »he added.

The vital card on smartphone is now available for all social insured people who already have France Identity, the digital identity application linked to the news Credit card electronic identity card (CNIE). According to administration figures, 1.7 million people already have this application (out of 25 million holders of a CNI).

By the end of 2025, the vital card will be available on smartphone for all social insured people, even those who do not have the France Identity or CNIE application. Health insurance will indeed generalize a mode of recruitment without France Identity, already experienced in 23 departments (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Bas-Rhin, Loire-Atlantique, Sarthe and Seine-Maritime). This system has already enabled 700,000 inhabitants of these departments to obtain it.

With France Identity already on your smartphone, just download the Vital Card application. The two applications will connect to check the user's identity, in a process that lasts « Only a few minutes »according to health insurance. At the time of the operation, it is still necessary to have with you your social security number and your identity card.

The process without the France Identity App for the way to be generalized throughout France also provides for a verification of the identity of the insured in several stages, « Including video recognition by video, controlled by a human operator »indicates health insurance.

For the moment, not all caregivers have compatible readers and software. In the 23 departments where the vital card on smartphone is already deployed, health insurance found that around 20 % of doctors and 60 % of pharmacists had been able to rely on the application to invoice.

According to health insurance, application, Approved by the CNILhas a high level of security and « Does not contain medical information ». It only includes « Data related to refunds » (Identities of the insured and beneficiaries, social security number, health insurance plan and attachment organization, summaries of care invoices). To use the application in the healthcare professional, the user must unlock it with a secret code defined during activation. The user then presents his smartphone to the healthcare professional who, with an adapted reader – QR code or NFC (contactless technology) – will have access to all the necessary information.

In the event of loss or theft of your phone, activation on a new smartphone automatically leads to the deletion of the app on the old smartphone. A way to avoid declaring the loss of your card, ordering a new one and accumulating, while waiting for it, the paper care sheets that must be transmitted to your health insurance fund.