Health data portability: five software vendors commit to action without waiting for 2027
Doctolib, MadeForMed (Odaiji), Orisha Care (Desmos and Follow), Semble and VIDAL Group (Weda, DrSanté, MonEcho) are responding to the call made in July by the association 100 000 Médecins and its signatory unions. The five vendors confirm that, as of today, they are applying the three commitments that came out of the working group led by the Digital Health Delegation (Délégation au Numérique en Santé, DNS): a free export, delivered within 30 days at most, covering all data belonging to the healthcare professional, and accompanied by instructions that allow the next software to take it over under the best possible conditions.
Moving forward on data portability, without waiting for 2027
The portability framework, drawn up following the law of 26 May 2026 by the working group bringing together the DNS, the association 100000medecins.org and FEIMA, will not be enforceable against vendors until February 2027. The public consultation has yet to be launched and will be followed by a three-month European notification period.
None of this prevents us from acting now, in keeping with the commitment made collectively within the working group. We are therefore publicly committing, for any physician customer who requests it, to three points:
The call launched by the association 100000medecins.org is primarily aimed at physicians. However, we support the principle of effective data portability for all the healthcare professionals concerned, and we encourage its extension to all professions facing the same migration challenges.
Portability is already a right
The French timetable, still under discussion, may have given the impression that it would be necessary to wait until 2027 to change software under good conditions. Yet the European Data Act, applicable since September 2025, already provides a framework intended to facilitate switching between digital service providers and data portability, without waiting for the French framework to enter into force.
In particular, it provides for the transfer of exportable data within 30 days at most, documentation of formats, and the gradual phasing out of switching charges, which will be banned entirely from 12 January 2027. In France, its enforcement will fall to ARCEP, which already regulates portability in telecommunications and energy.
For a healthcare professional, the legal vehicle matters little. What matters is that a framework protects them today and that they can rely on it with their software vendor.
A matter of quality of care
A healthcare professional who hesitates to change software for fear of losing their patient history is stuck with a tool that no longer suits them. When a migration does take place, an incomplete or poorly documented export harms patient care, leading to consultations where medical history, reports or test results are missing, and costs days of re-entry work taken out of clinical time. Difficulty retrieving one’s data should no longer weigh on the freedom to choose one’s software.
Our call to other vendors and to public authorities
We invite all software vendors to publicly confirm the same commitments. The list of committed vendors is published by the association 100000medecins.org on its website. We also call on public authorities to do everything possible so that the French legal framework becomes enforceable as quickly as possible.
A market where practitioners freely choose their software is a market where competition drives innovation and service quality, which benefits healthcare professionals and their patients first and foremost.
