He announced it in the columns of Release on March 8, Cédric O will leave politics after the presidential election. Return scheduled in the private sector for this faithful Emmanuel Macron, whom he advised at the Elysée Palace on digital issues, before inheriting the morocco of Secretary of State in charge of the subject in the spring of 2019. In terms of digital health , it was the Ministry of Solidarity and Health that took the lead in 2017 and, with a few exceptions, we deplore the absence of its State Secretariat on these subjects. The time has come to take stock and he often argues this: his great success in health is the launch in the midst of a health crisis of the application to fight against Covid-19, TousAntiCovid (ex-StopCovid). A half-hearted success as soon as one digs the application activity report, published in February, which reports a “marginal usefulness” in terms of tracing contact cases and an underuse of the tracing functionalities it embeds. On March 10, at the end of a press conference presenting the first class of start-ups from PariSanté Campus, Cédric O spoke at length about the actions of the digital health ecosystem to transform the system in the long term. The Secretary of State repeated what is an already overused observation: the Covid-19 crisis has served as an accelerator for health innovation. “I lived it from the inside. There are things that could take three years, four years or five years that were done in two weeks.” He insisted on what was “a tipping point” and called on all health actors to register “this dynamic over time”. “What is important is to try now to draw a new social contract on this issue of health innovation.” Advocating for the “culture of risk”, Cédric O called not to fear the valuation of innovative health tools, even if the sector remains sensitive and highly regulated. “The strength of the French health system, which is also its difficulty, is that it is very unified with its reimbursement system and the weight of health insurance. The Jacobin side of our system makes it hard to get in there but once you’re there it’s a highway,” he said. “We will continue. Those who will be elected and will be in my place will continue,” he promised, encouraging everyone to “innovate again”. Once a start-up nation, always a start-up nation?
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