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Chosen following a call for projects by the European Medicines Agency (Ema), the Health Data Hub is to set up a Health Data Warehouse, entitled Project Emc2, which involves medical interns mapping French medical terminologies to the Omop standard. The HDH therefore launched a call for tenders to find a hosting provider.
The French cloud computing players who put themselves forward as candidates alerted us to the bias they observe between the selection procedures applied to them by the HDH, and those benefiting Microsoft Azure or AWS, as if the HDH (and perhaps also Dinum) intends to demonstrate by any means possible that they are unable to meet its requirements.
In view of this persistent bias, which we have already denounced, on the part of the HDH’s management in favor of cloud computing players subject to US extraterritorial laws, we wrote to the Prime Minister yesterday to alert her to this situation, and to ask her to put the HDH’s governance in order.
We also reminded her of the promises made by the government during the examination of the bill to secure and regulate the digital space. At that time, the executive committed to enshrining in law the application of the State’s cloud doctrine, and to modifying HDS certification to bring it into line with immunity rules.
We feel it’s essential to remember that the role of senior civil servants is to implement public policy, and that it’s up to us, as members of parliament, to ensure that their actions comply with the laws passed by both chambers, a requirement that the HDH can in no way derogate from.
