With a high degree of compliance with the requirements of the Health Data Hub, as attested by the EMC2 expert mission, Cloud Temple is a strong candidate for future migration to a sovereign solution.
At the end of 2023, Cloud Temple took part, along with two other French cloud providers, in a consultancy mission set up by the Délégation au numérique en santé (DNS). At the request of the CNIL, the mission's objective was to assess the compliance of SecNumCloud-qualified offerings with the requirements of the Health Data Hub (HDH) in a specific context: that of EMC2, a project to create a health data warehouse piloted by the European Medicines Agency.
" This assessment has enabled Cloud Temple to demonstrate a high level of compliance, which will reach 95% in spring 2024, following SecNumCloud qualification of the new trusted PaaS services on our platform. "says Sébastien Lescop, Managing Director of Cloud Temple.
However, following the presentation of the expert report, the CNIL decided to authorise the HDH to rely on Microsoft's cloud solutions, in the absence of a hosting offer meeting the requirements within a timeframe compatible with the imperatives of the European EMC2 project. This authorisation is for a period of three years - instead of the 10 years requested - which corresponds to the time required for the HDH to migrate to a sovereign solution.
The authorisation to access certain data from the French National Health Data System (SNDS) as part of the EMC2 project is intended to enable the HDH to meet its commitments to the European Medicines Agency.
However, in the absence of hosting that complies with ANSSI requirements, the CNIL does not authorise the HDH under any circumstances to connect to the main SNDS database, access that is essential if it is to fulfil its missions. Indeed, the HDH's raison d'être is the secure, large-scale use of SNDS data for the purposes of research and medical progress.
The Marchand-Arvier report of 5 December 2023 on the secondary use of health data regrets the delay in this project, which is essential for French research. The authors of the report commissioned by Bruno Le Maire recommend that the most appropriate sovereign transitional solution be defined within six months, in order to speed up the release of data from the main SNDS database. An expert in hybridisation with hyperscalers, Cloud Temple is ready for this.
Sébastien Lescop concludes: " We are now waiting for the Health Data Hub's call for tenders in 2025, so that we can build a strategy for migration to sovereign hosting, or even hybridisation with Microsoft. To this end, Cloud Temple is continuing to develop the solutions in its SecNumCloud technology roadmap to meet all these requirements. "