The Dossier Médical Partagé (DMP) (shared medical record) responds to a public health challenge. By centralizing a patient's health information, the DMP strengthens collaboration between all healthcare professionals, both in town and in hospital, and facilitates patient follow-up. Its use is particularly relevant for having the right information, at the right time, wherever you are.

For healthcare professionals, it's also a guarantee of better medical care for patients. To access the DMP, healthcare professionals have two connection channels: from their DMP-compatible business software or via the WebPS DMP interface (on the dmp.fr website), authenticating via a CPx professional card or via a structured application server certificate (CSA).

The healthcare professional may consult the documents contained in the DMP, if authorized by the patient and according to the DMP authorization matrix. He/she can feed documents useful for the patient's care.

Some documents are subject to mandatory inclusion in the DMP by healthcare professionals: the order of April 26, 2022 issued on the basis of Article L. 1111-15 of the Public Health Code reiterates the types of documents required to be included in the DMP by healthcare establishments, and specifies the additional list of documents that must be included in DMPs by doctors and biologists from 2023 and 2024.

Beyond the feeds made by patients and/or healthcare professionals, certain documents are automatically fed into patients' DMPs, such as reimbursement histories and COVID vaccination certificates.

On the user side, the DMP has been integrated since early 2022, into the new digital health space, called Mon espace santé, created for all people affiliated to a French compulsory health insurance scheme, unless they have objected. A medical file is then automatically created for these users. For those who already had a DMP before this automatic creation, all data is retrieved in Mon espace santé.