• Piloting public health policy, which includes health monitoring and safety, defining the financing and evaluation of prevention and health promotion initiatives, and anticipating, preparing for and managing health crises, in liaison with the prefect;
• Regulating healthcare provision in the region, which aims to better meet needs and guarantee the efficiency of the healthcare system in the outpatient (city and hospital), hospital and medico-social (assistance and support for the elderly and disabled) sectors. In practical terms, regulation involves authorizing the creation of healthcare and medical-social establishments and services, monitoring their operation and allocating their resources.
• Foster the emergence of new organizations and collaborations between healthcare and medico-social professionals in the service of pathway-based medicine by funding experiments, notably within the framework of article 51.

The ARS are responsible for regional e-health policy in their region. They implement the national digital health policy at regional level with the support of a regional e-health development support group (GRADeS), to which they delegate all or part of the regional project management. ARSs support the development of core digital services (deployment of the DMP, use of secure healthcare messaging, territorial digital services for coordinating healthcare pathways, etc.) and encourage innovative experimentation in all areas of healthcare policy.

• To identify actions deployed as part of the implementation of the regional e-health strategy (regional telehealth offering, projects in progress, regional tools deployed, healthcare priorities, etc.);
• To find a testing ground and liaise with regional delegations of federations representing healthcare and medico-social establishments, representatives of private practitioners, user representatives, etc....
• To know the regulatory framework in force and access reference documentation.

• From the mock-up / prototyping phase: know the e-health service offering deployed, be directed to existing healthcare innovation support schemes (e.g. DGOS calls for projects, IReSP, ANR, Conseil Régional, etc.) depending on the project's degree of maturity.

• During the development/commissioning phase: identify an experimentation field, benefit from financial support enabling the implementation of experiments in line with current thematic priorities and the schedule of calls for projects and calls for expressions of interest.

Yes, ARS can finance experiments in response to calls for projects or calls for expressions of interest.