The lights are green for the digital vital card. Indeed, the CNIL has just approved the project. However, the National Commission for Computing and Liberties has set certain conditions. Thus, users now have the right to request support to install their vital card application.
We have been talking in our columns about the digital vital card since 2019. Finally, it took four years and the publication of a new decree in December 2022 to make the project a reality. As a reminder, this “e-carte vitale” will be presented as a 100% digital and dematerialized version of your good old traditional carte vitale.
It will be available in a future dedicated mobile applicationfrom which users can easily access all of their procedures:
- consultation of rights and reimbursement requests
- downloading the documents necessary for support
- detailed tracking of reimbursements
In addition, this digital vital card will also constitute an additional means of connecting to certain digital health services in complete security. The idea being to offer an alternative to France Connect. In effect, all the information necessary to identify the holder and his beneficiaries will be stored there : surname, first name, social security number, recent photograph, postal or electronic address.
The CNIL validates the deployment of the e-carte vitale, under certain conditions
From now on, the cap is set for December 31, 2025, date on which all policyholders will be able to access their carte vitale 2.0. The project is currently on the right track, since it has just received approval from the CNIL. The institution has just made public the notice to the government for the deployment of the digital vital card. The occasion of discover the different recommendations of the CNIL and the points on which the government conceded.
First, the user now has “the right to request support from their health insurance organization for the installation of the application”. For the CNIL, this is an essential concept, in particular to find a “balance between the offer of an innovative digital service making it possible to simplify the daily lives of users and the need not to accentuate the digital divide”.
Moreover, the CNIL has validated the use of facial recognition during the first activation of the e-carte vitale. But beware, this recourse to biometric processing will have to end as soon as the SGIN, the digital identity guarantee service, is launched. This application, which should be launched soon, will notably house the new electronic national identity card for users. As the CNIL specifies, the SGIN will be used as a priority from January 2025. Let’s conclude by recalling that this vital card 2.0 will be completely optional. The physical card and care sheets can still be used.