Shared Medical Record (Mon Espace Santé) and the Galeon EHR: What Is the Difference?

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Shared Medical Record (Mon Espace Santé) and the Galeon EHR: What Is the Difference?

What are the differences between My Health Space (Ameli) and the Galeon Electronic Health Record?

Tanguy Bertogliati Growth Marketer

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19/6/2026

In brief

Question	Short answer	What to remember
Are the DMP / Mon Espace Santé and the Galeon EHR the same thing?	No	The EHR is the clinicians' internal working tool; the DMP / Mon Espace Santé is the patient's health record. Two distinct, complementary objects.
Which one holds more data?	The Galeon EHR	The EHR holds 100% of the patient's data; the DMP / Mon Espace Santé reflects only about 1% of it.
Does Galeon replace Mon Espace Santé?	No	Galeon interfaces with this public service but does not replace it: it remains the operational core of care inside the hospital.
Who uses what?	Clinicians vs patients	The Galeon EHR is used by care teams inside the facility; the DMP / Mon Espace Santé is consulted by the patient.
Why does this distinction matter to an investor?	Strategic position	Galeon sits at the source of the data, where it is produced and structured, not merely where it is shown to the patient.
What is Galeon's added value?	AI + blockchain	Galeon structures data for AI and shares the value created through the $GALEON token and Blockchain Swarm Learning®.
What is the current traction?	19 hospitals	Galeon is deployed in 19 hospitals, including 2 university hospitals, with more than 3 million patient records.

Introduction

The confusion is common, even among healthcare professionals. When people talk about a "digital medical record," do they mean the Shared Medical Record (Mon Espace Santé), the public service every insured person in France receives? Or the software clinicians use in the hospital to follow a patient in real time? These are two very different things, and conflating them leads to misjudging where the real value in health data actually lies.

This distinction is not just a matter of vocabulary. It determines who produces the data, who structures it, and who can extract medical and economic value from it. It is precisely at the source of this data that Galeon has positioned itself, already equipping 19 hospitals, including 2 university hospitals, and structuring more than 3 million patient records alongside several thousand clinicians.

Galeon does not seek to replace the patient's public service. It builds the clinicians' internal working tool and connects it to the national ecosystem. The EHR is the operational core of care inside the hospital; the DMP / Mon Espace Santé is its partial reflection on the patient's side.

In this article, we clarify the difference between the two, explain why this source-level position changes everything for the CIO and the investor alike, and detail the model that turns this data into shared value.

What exactly is the Shared Medical Record (Mon Espace Santé)?

The Shared Medical Record (DMP), integrated into Mon Espace Santé, is the patient's national digital health service. It lets every insured person store their medical information and share it with the professionals treating them. It notably includes a secure messaging system and a catalog of state-certified health applications.

Since its generalization under an opt-out principle, 97% of the population has a Mon Espace Santé / DMP profile. Deployment is therefore near-universal in France.

In practice, the patient is the holder. All documents added to patients' DMPs are automatically visible to them in their Mon Espace Santé profiles. The DMP centralizes key documents: discharge summaries, test results, the reimbursed-care history of the past 24 months, and advance directives.

But the DMP / Mon Espace Santé remains a service for displaying and sharing data, not a tool for producing care. The DMP does not replace the medical record a professional keeps locally for their patient. This is a fundamental nuance, set out by the official texts themselves.

What is the Galeon EHR and how is it different?

The Galeon EHR (Electronic Health Record) is the clinicians' internal working tool within the facility. It holds 100% of the patient's data, follows the entire care pathway, and integrates into the hospital information system.

This is where the difference in scale plays out. The EHR holds all the clinical information produced in the hospital; the DMP / Mon Espace Santé reflects only a fraction of it, on the order of 1%. The patient's digital health record receives only the documents deemed relevant for coordination, not the entire operational file.

This logic matches the national framework exactly. The DMP feeds the patient, but the facility keeps its full local record. In fact, the obligation to place documents in the DMP does not apply to prescriptions produced during a hospital stay. The hospital stay therefore remains largely managed within the EHR, not in the DMP / Mon Espace Santé.

The Galeon EHR goes further than a simple record-keeping software. It structures data from the moment it is produced: the data is built directly to be readable, interoperable, and usable by Artificial Intelligence algorithms. This is what sets Galeon apart from a traditional EHR, where data often remains scattered, incomplete, and hard to use.

The data never leaves the hospital's servers. That is the founding principle of Galeon's Blockchain Swarm Learning®.

How do the DMP / Mon Espace Santé and the Galeon EHR work together?

The two are not opposed: they fit together. Galeon interfaces with the DMP / Mon Espace Santé but does not replace it.

The national circuit is clear. The healthcare professional works in their business software, then feeds the DMP, which transmits the information to the patient. The professional does not have access to Mon Espace Santé but always feeds the DMP, which passes the information to the patient via Mon Espace Santé. The Galeon EHR sits upstream of this chain: it is the business tool in which the clinician produces and structures the data, before part of it flows up to the public service.

This interoperability fits within France's Ségur du numérique en santé program. The mandated software updates, funded by the Ségur program, aim to automate the sharing of documents toward Mon Espace Santé and thus minimize any "additional human action." A modern, compliant EHR must therefore communicate natively with the national ecosystem, which is what Galeon does.

The most accurate image: the Galeon EHR is the operational core of care inside the hospital, while the DMP / Mon Espace Santé is the patient-facing window.

The benefit for the CIO and hospital management

For a hospital CIO or executive director, the distinction has very concrete consequences.

The EHR is the critical day-to-day tool. It determines the quality of the care pathway, the workload of the teams, and the security of the information. The DMP / Mon Espace Santé, by contrast, is an external service over which the hospital has almost no operational leverage.

The strengths of the Galeon EHR for leadership come down to a few points:

Real centralization: 100% of the patient's data in one place, versus a fragmented view in traditional systems.
Natively structured data: less reprocessing, direct usability for research and decision support.
Data sovereignty: data stays hosted locally by the hospital, never offloaded to a third-party platform.
Interoperability with the national ecosystem (DMP, Mon Espace Santé, MSSanté) without friction.
Valorization: the data produced becomes an economic resource for the facility, not just a storage cost.

On this last point, Galeon stands out radically. In its model, the hospital is not dispossessed of its data: it remains sovereign over it and earns its value.

The value for investors: why being at the source matters

This is where the DMP / EHR distinction takes on its full financial meaning.

The DMP / Mon Espace Santé is a public display service. No one "monetizes" Mon Espace Santé: it is not an asset, it is state infrastructure on the patient side. The EHR, on the other hand, is where the data is born, where it is most complete and richest. Whoever controls the source controls the value.

Health data is the fuel of medical AI: a rare, precious, and sensitive resource. The larger and more structured the dataset, the higher the potential of the AI. Yet a single hospital's localized learning quickly hits limits in dataset size. Galeon solves this ceiling with Blockchain Swarm Learning®, which trains AI on data distributed across several hospitals, without the data ever leaving their servers.

The economic model is built on the $GALEON token. Each use of health data through Blockchain Swarm Learning® triggers a transaction split as follows:

40% for the hospitals, where the data is captured and structured
30% for the Galeon DAO fund (volunteer patients and pioneers)
20% for buy back and burn
10% for Galeon

Concretely, if a venture-backed startup spends 10 million euros to access data on the Galeon platform, 4 million go to the hospitals, 3 million to the DAO, 2 million are used to buy back and burn $GALEON, and 1 million goes to Galeon.

For the investor, the thesis is this: Galeon positions itself at the source of the data (the EHR), structures that data for AI, and mechanically captures value with each use through a buy back and burn mechanism that reduces token supply. The traction is already there: 19 hospitals including 2 university hospitals, more than 3 million patient records, and over 100,000 holders of the $GALEON token.

DMP / Mon Espace Santé vs the Galeon EHR: the comparison

Criterion	DMP / Mon Espace Santé	Galeon EHR
Nature	Public service, patient's health record	Clinicians' internal working tool
Holder / user	The patient	The facility's care teams
Data volume	About 1% of the data (shared documents)	100% of the patient's data
Role in care	Display and sharing of documents	Production and operational follow-up of the care pathway
Hospital stay	Largely out of scope	Core of the system
Structuring for AI	Not designed for it	Data natively structured for AI
Hosting	State infrastructure	Local, on the hospital's servers
Hospital sovereignty	Not applicable	Total: data never leaves the hospital
Value model	None (public service)	Shared value via the $GALEON token and Blockchain Swarm Learning®
Interest for investors	None as an asset	Positioning at the source of the data

The DMP / Mon Espace Santé and the Galeon EHR do not play in the same league: one returns a fraction of the information to the patient, the other produces, structures, and valorizes it at the source.

Limits and challenges to be aware of

Honesty is a credibility signal. Here are the real challenges of the Galeon model, without minimizing them.

Hospital adoption. Deploying an EHR in a facility is a long and demanding process: change management, team training, migration of existing data. Going from 19 hospitals to several hundred will require time and significant commercial resources.

A shifting regulatory framework. Health data is one of the most heavily regulated fields. The CNIL's reminders on access rights, authentication, and traceability fully apply, and the framework keeps evolving. At the end of 2025, France's Constitutional Council struck down Article 85 of the 2026 Social Security Financing Act concerning DMP reporting obligations, a sign of a still-unstable legal landscape.

Dependence on the national ecosystem. The value of interoperability depends on the stability of the DMP / Mon Espace Santé framework, run by the State and the national health insurance system. Galeon must continuously adapt to these changes.

Token volatility. The economic model relies in part on the $GALEON token, whose market value is inherently volatile. This is a risk factor every investor must factor in, distinct from the operational solidity of the product.

Maturity of the health-AI market. Medical AI applications have revolutionary potential, but the market is still in its early days. Large-scale monetization of AI training on distributed data remains to be confirmed over time.

These limits do not undermine the logic of the model: they describe the road still ahead.

FAQ

Can the DMP / Mon Espace Santé replace a hospital's EHR? No. The DMP / Mon Espace Santé is the patient's health record and contains only about 1% of the data. It is not meant to manage the real-time care pathway in the hospital, which is the EHR's role.

Does Galeon compete with Mon Espace Santé? No. Galeon interfaces with the DMP / Mon Espace Santé but does not replace it. The Galeon EHR is the clinicians' business tool, upstream of the public service intended for the patient.

Why is the EHR said to hold 100% of the data and the DMP 1%? Because the EHR gathers all the clinical information produced in the facility, while only documents relevant to coordination flow up to the patient's DMP. The hospital stay, for example, remains largely managed within the EHR.

Why does the "at the source" position interest an investor? Because the value of health data is created where it is produced and structured, that is, in the EHR. Galeon captures this value at the source via Blockchain Swarm Learning® and the $GALEON token, rather than at the level of simple display to the patient.

Does patient data leave the hospital with Galeon? No. With Blockchain Swarm Learning®, data stays on each hospital's servers. Only the AI algorithms travel to be trained in a decentralized way, and every action is traced by the blockchain.

How is the hospital compensated in the Galeon model? Each time data is used through Blockchain Swarm Learning®, 40% of the transaction goes to the hospitals, in proportion to the data used. It is the largest share of the split.

Is Galeon already used in real-world conditions? Yes. Galeon is deployed in 19 hospitals including 2 university hospitals, with more than 3 million patient records, several thousand clinicians, and over 100,000 holders of the $GALEON token.

In summary

The DMP / Mon Espace Santé and the Galeon EHR serve two distinct needs: one is the patient's health record, which reflects about 1% of the data; the other is the clinicians' working tool, which holds 100% of the data and drives the care pathway in the hospital. Galeon does not replace the public service: it interfaces with it while remaining the operational core of care. This source-level position is precisely what creates its value: it is where the data is born, structured, and made usable for AI. Through Blockchain Swarm Learning® and the $GALEON token, Galeon turns this data into value shared among hospitals, patients, and investors, while guaranteeing that data never leaves the facility's servers. With 19 hospitals already equipped and more than 3 million structured records, Galeon is building the infrastructure of data-driven medicine.

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