On Friday 10 February 2023, the ICAN IHU, together with the Conseil d’Etat, the CNIL and the Alliance IHU France, organised a major conference on the use of data and artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector.
The conference, which was also available by videoconference, attracted more than 600 remote participants and around a hundred in person, including 10 media from the national general press and the specialist health and digital press, who came to attend the debates led by speakers specialising in the subject.
Watch the replay below! (French language)

Part 1 – Morning (9am-12.30pm)
Opening plenary, round tables 1 and 2
Part 2 – Afternoon (2pm-3.45pm)
Round table 3 and closing plenary
What is the aim of this conference?
The day was opened by Didier-Roland Tabuteau (Vice-President of the Conseil d’État), Marie-Laure Denis (President of the CNIL) and Stéphane Hatem (Director General of the ICAN IHU).
3 round tables discussed the issues surrounding the use of AI in research and medical practice, the regulatory framework for health data and the economic ecosystem for this data in France.
Renaud Vedel (Chief of Staff to Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate for the Digital Transition and Telecommunications) and Thierry Tuot (Deputy Chairman of the Interior Section of the Council of State) concluded the discussions, which were rich in proposals.

The work initiated at this conference will continue within the Alliance IHU France to build a new model for the use of health data in research.
The aim of the Alliance IHU France is to create, in collaboration with the CNIL and with the support of the Conseil d’Etat and the government, a new experimental area in order to find solutions to the various economic, social and medical issues raised by the manipulation of artificial intelligence and the use of data within the healthcare sector. All of this will be done with complete transparency for the public, patients and the press.



Photos ©JB Eyguesier/Conseil d’Etat.
Press coverage!
- Next Inpact – Federated learning and the use of megadata: what AI can do for healthcare
- Data Scientest – Colloque du Conseil d’Etat: comment l’AI et le Big Data vont révolutionner la recherche et la pratique médicales?
- Auguste Debouzy – Artificial intelligence (“AI”) and megadata in the field of medical research and practice: key points to remember from the conference organised by the Conseil d’Etat, the CNIL and the Alliance IHU France
- Next Inpact – At the Conseil d’Etat, the quest for a balance to promote AI in healthcare
- Veille Cyber – At the Council of State, the quest for balance to promote AI in healthcare
- Tic Pharma – AI and health data: the Cnil wants to take “the work of simplifying procedures” further
- Tic Pharma – The Cnil’s criticisms of the proposed European health data area
- Connected Doctors – AI and megadata: tomorrow’s medical research and practice
- Presse Agence – AI and megadata for health
- Marine de la Clergerie – What regulations for Artificial Intelligence?
- Acteurs publics – Territorial State – Public procurement – Artificial intelligence
- Le Quotidien du médecin – How is AI already revolutionising medicine?