What classes of digital solutions does the HAS define?

Using examples, identify which class the functionalities you're developing belong to, and find the support modes suited to your solution!

Support services (category A1)

Examples

  • Utility for administrative management, storage, archiving of patient's personal or health data and information
  • Software for sharing patient data
  • Instant messaging and geolocation application for public health purposes
  • Communication software or platform
  • Online appointment scheduling or care path optimization software
  • Personal electronic logbook

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Patients
  • Healthcare professionals and caregivers
  • The facilities
  • The PSADs

This category does not include

Systems ensuring the automatic transmission of health data to a third party for telehealth purposes.

General user information services (category B1)

Provides the user with

  • General, non-personalized information on living conditions, hygiene and dietary rules, pathologies/handicaps or any health condition, current therapeutic protocols,
  • Or training materials or tools
  • .
  • Or training aids or tools

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Patients
  • Users
  • Healthcare professionals
  • The establishments
  • The PSAD

Examples

  • Systems offering hygienic-dietary advice (diet, smoking cessation, sports or physical training, dermatological protection, etc.)
  • Supports or training tools for healthcare professionals
  • .
  • ...

Assisted living services (category C1)

These services act in the context of a situation of disability or loss of autonomy without autonomy of the digital solution

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Users

This category does not include

Systems that provide general, non-customized information are not in this category.

Examples

  • Smartphone application enabling people with disabilities to request assistance in solving a one-off problem from volunteer helpers connected to the application
  • Audiodescription app for the visually impaired
  • Connected emergency alert bracelet for the elderly
  • Activity sensor for falls detection for the elderly
  • ...

Prevention (C2 category)

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Patients
  • Healthcare professionals

This category does not include

Systems that make diagnoses and propose screenings or treatments are not in this category

.

Examples

  • Systems offering targeted hygienic-dietary advice (tobacco, diet, alcohol, physical training, etc.), based on user data, for the purposes of prevention/management of chronic pathologies/addictions/health states
  • Ovulation period prediction tools
  • Connected pedometers
  • ...

Self-monitoring and self-treatment (category C3)

These may include

  • of self-monitoring when monitoring by the patient will lead him/her to recontact the healthcare professional to adapt his/her treatment
  • self-treatment when monitoring will lead the patient to adapt his or her treatment according to the medical prescription and to achieve the therapeutic objectives set with the healthcare professional; enable optimization of patient compliance with treatment
    .

The users concerned by my solution are

  • The patients

This category does not include

Systems that enable:

  • A diagnosis
  • Autonomous initiation of treatment
  • The autonomic sending of data by the system for remote monitoring purposes
    .

Examples

  • External neurostimulator
  • Gamification solutions applied to the treatment of psychiatric pathologies
  • 3D simulation headset for rehabilitation
  • Rehabilitation/prevention/treatment application
  • Wrist blood pressure monitor connected to smartphone
  • ...

Telehealth (category C4)

These may include

  • Teleso-medical monitoring when the doctor's follow-up will lead him to contact the patient again to adapt his treatment;
  • Telecare when a pharmacist or paramedic will be put in contact with the patient for remote care.

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Patients
  • Healthcare professionals

This category does not include

Systems that enable:

  • An initial diagnosis
  • Autonomous initiation of treatment
  • The autonomous management of a treatment without human intervention (from the patient or the professional)

Examples

  • Medical telemonitoring system of the application, web platform or other type, connected or not to a tool or DM with a measurement function, and which transmits data or alerts for medical telemonitoring purposes
  • .
  • System used in the context of remote medical monitoring integrating software of the application, web platform or other type based on an expert system that processes the data collected.

Screening aid (category C5)

Assists in the detection of pathology or deficiency by generating options. The digital solutions concerned are intended for use in a broad population and involve diagnostic confirmation, where appropriate.

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Patients
  • Healthcare professionals

This category does not include

Systems that provide general, non-personalized health advice

.

Examples

  • Screening software for diabetic retinopathy
  • Connected system for detecting genetic diseases or cancers
  • ...

Diagnostic assistance (category C6)

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Health professionals

This category does not include

Systems that only provide a non-personalized list of symptoms and signs of a disease

Examples

  • Software to detect tumors using imaging techniques
  • Software associated with a chest band to detect pauses in breathing in order to diagnose sleep apnea
  • Diagnostic assistance software based on medical biology results
  • ...

Processing assistance (category C7)

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Patients
  • Healthcare professionals

This category does not include

Systems for therapeutic decision-making

Examples

  • Insulin dose calculation application based on glycemic data
  • Dosing adaptation software based on renal function
  • Surgical robot
  • Orthopedic surgical guidance solution
  • ...

Therapeutic decision support (category C8)

This category includes devices that also incorporate C7 functionalities

.

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Health professionals

This category does not include

Systems that provide general, non-personalized health advice or systems designed to improve care pathways
.

Examples

  • LAP
  • LAD
  • Drug interaction calculation software
  • ...

Autonomous decision management (category D1)

This category includes devices that also incorporate C7 functionalities

.

The users concerned by my solution are

  • Patients
  • Healthcare professionals

This category does not include

Systems that incorporate functionality from this category but operate in open circuit

.

Examples

  • System that continuously analyzes data from a glucose monitor without patient intervention (artificial pancreas, also known as a closed loop)
  • Cardiac defibrillator implanted with a remote monitoring solution that analyzes data from a cardiac monitor, delivers a shock in the event of cardiac arrest and can transmit alerts to the professional following the patient
  • ...