The ROR presents information identifying structures or liberal professionals and information describing the healthcare offer.

The identification information comes from national repositories, FINESS for structures (n°FINESS, corporate name, category of establishment, address...) and RPPS for healthcare professionals (n°RPPS, practice identity, civil status, profession...). FINESS describes facilities authorized to care for patients. The RPPS describes healthcare professionals who have the necessary qualifications to care for patients. The information in these repositories is recorded by responsible registration authorities.

This identifying information is supplemented by information describing the structure's offering, i.e. the operational activities and the techniques, equipment and resources that contribute to the realization of these activities.

Healthcare supply is defined as a set of care or services provided by a healthcare structure (a health facility, a medico-social facility, a city structure).

An offer is described with standardized values, called nomenclatures, which have been defined by groups of experts on a national scale and validated by learned societies.

The ROR describes the healthcare offer of all the structure's units. Four main fields are used to describe a unit's offer:

• One or more operational activities or services provided as part of the healthcare pathway (the wording of an activity refers to a set of homogeneous care actions or services). Example: neurosurgery, kidney transplants, psychiatry, specialized follow-up and rehabilitation care;
• The reception capacity for this activity;
• Specific equipment to carry out operational activities (example: positive pressure chamber (sterile room) for a burn unit) ;
• The address where the offer is carried out, contacts and unit resource people to contact if necessary.

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The data in the ROR comes from two different sources:

• Some of the data in the ROR comes from national repositories

The data identifying the structures or self-employed healthcare professionals described in the ROR comes from the FINESS and RPPS national repositories. These data are recorded by the responsible registration authorities.

When information is available in a national repository, it should not be re-entered locally, but fed from the national repository. This principle ensures overall consistency across the entire healthcare sector, particularly with regard to structures and professionals. Other data is entered by the establishments and services concerned.

• The health and medico-social structures that provide healthcare services are responsible for entering their services into the ROR

As healthcare services are provided by a structure, it is the structure's manager who is responsible for describing its services in the ROR. A healthcare offer cannot be displayed in the ROR if it has not been validated by the manager of the structure concerned.

There are three levels of accessibility for ROR data:

• Open access concerns data identifying structures as well as general data describing the healthcare offer.

Example: data relating to the activity of a facility's patient base (type of public cared for, minimum and maximum age, opening hours). This data will be accessible to all healthcare professionals, as well as to the general public. The public information portal santé.fr will only display public data on health care provision from the ROR.

• Restricted access concerns data relating to the technical aspects of care provision. They can only be understood by a healthcare professional (and must therefore not be distributed to the general public). Restricted access fields:
  • Specific procedures
  • Equipment
  • Specialized care
  • Resource skills
  • Capacity
• Very restricted access concerns so-called sensitive data.

Example: data relating to bed capacity in crisis situations. This data is accessible via a specific procedure. Highly restricted data includes:

• Certain contact data
• Put down zone
• Sensitive unit information

The list of structures whose purpose is to describe their offer in the ROR is as follows:

As well as:
178 Centre d'accueil et d'accompagnement à la réduction des risques pour usagers de drogues (CAARUD)
197 Centre de soins d'accompagnement et de prévention en addictologie (CSAPA)
228 Centre planification ou éducation familiale
604 Communauté Professionnelle Territoriale de Santé (CPTS)
606 Dispositif d'appui à la coordination (DAC)
603 Maison de santé (L6223-3)

The ROR presents the healthcare offer on the national territory. The term "healthcare offer" refers to data such as care modes, fields of activity or specific care. The name and address of a facility or healthcare professional are not healthcare supply data, but identification data.

• If your digital service meets one of the following purposes: Orientation, regulation, coordination, piloting, you can follow the consumer publisher pathway. This pathway will enable you to connect to the ROR National in order to consume healthcare supply data.
• If you wish to transmit facility capacity data (availability of beds and places) to the ROR National, you can follow the publisher-supplier pathway. This will enable you to connect to the National ROR.