| Question | Short Answer | Key Takeaway |
|---|---|---|
| Which hospital chose Galeon? | Hôpital Saint Joseph in Marseille, the largest private non-profit institution in the South of France. | A regional reference institution, pioneer of medical innovation for over 100 years. |
| How was the decision made? | Following a comprehensive market analysis conducted by the entire medical staff. | One of the first French hospitals to have involved its medical teams in the selection of their EHR. |
| What is concretely being deployed? | The Galeon intelligent multi-specialty EHR: inpatient care, emergency, operating theatre, ICU, consultations, mother-and-child pathway, AI. | A full deployment covering the entire patient journey within the institution. |
| When did the deployment start? | Early March 2026. | Saint Joseph is the 17th hospital to join the Galeon network. |
| Why is this choice significant? | Saint Joseph was the first hospital to deploy the previous generation of EHR — it is now the first to deploy the new one. | A strong signal sent to the French hospital market about the direction healthcare innovation is taking. |
| What does this say about the hospital market? | Hospitals are moving towards French digital sovereignty and greater involvement of healthcare professionals in technology decisions. | The post-Chambéry affair dynamic is accelerating the reassessment of legacy solutions. |
"In over 25 years of career, I have never seen such enthusiasm from healthcare professionals for an innovative patient record." These words belong to Sophie Dostert, director of Hôpital Saint Joseph in Marseille, as she announced the choice of the Galeon EHR following a comprehensive evaluation of the solutions available on the market.
What sets this decision apart is not only the choice of solution it is the method. Saint Joseph is one of the first French hospitals to have involved its entire medical staff in the evaluation and selection of its future electronic patient record. Physicians, nurses, surgeons, midwives, emergency doctors: all participated in the comparative analysis. The result was unanimous.
"Involving healthcare professionals in the choice of their working tool is not a procedural detail, it is a signal of an institution's maturity when it comes to technology adoption. An EHR chosen by the teams is ten times more likely to be genuinely used."
Founded over 100 years ago by Abbé Fouque in the Prado neighbourhood, Hôpital Saint Joseph is the largest private non-profit institution in the South of France. Rooted in a humanist tradition — treating patients without distinction, placing the patient at the centre, it is also one of the national leaders in medical innovation: robotic surgery, interventional cardiology, advanced radiology, hybrid operating theatre.
Its motto, carried since its founding: "be of one's time." This philosophy explains a remarkable fact in the history of the French hospital market : Saint Joseph was the first hospital to deploy the previous generation of EHR. It is today the first to deploy the new one.
The deployment, which began in early March 2026, covers the entirety of the patient journey within the institution. The Galeon intelligent EHR is deployed across all specialties and departments of the hospital, including standard inpatient care and surgical pathways, the operating theatre and intensive care unit, emergency services, multi-specialty outpatient consultations, the mother-and-child pathway, as well as clinical research and artificial intelligence modules.
This is a full deployment, not a pilot experiment on a single department. Management made the choice of a global transformation, underpinned by the team buy-in built upstream.
Saint Joseph's choice is part of a broader dynamic. Since the Chambéry affair, which brought to light the risks of dependence on closed, low-sovereignty EHR solutions, a growing number of French institutions have been reassessing their technology choices. The question of hospital digital sovereignty, interoperability, and the ability to integrate AI into the care pathway has become strategic for executive directors and CIOs alike.
Saint Joseph crystallises three deep-rooted trends simultaneously: the involvement of healthcare professionals in technology decisions, a preference for innovative and sovereign solutions, and the ambition to integrate medical AI directly into the clinical workflow not as an ancillary tool, but as a native component of the patient record.
"Galeon is present in 19 hospitals, including 2 university hospitals, with more than 3 million structured patient records. The deployment at Saint Joseph marks a further milestone in the construction of the first structured medical data hospital network in France."
The more the hospital network expands, the greater the volume of structured data available for training medical AIs.
Saint Joseph is not just another reference in a commercial portfolio. It is an additional link in the construction of a national-scale medical infrastructure, whose value is directly correlated to the size and quality of the network.
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