E-Sante Bretagne

What E-Sante Bretagne does

GCS e-Santé Bretagne, publicly branded as Groupement Régional e-Santé Bretagne, is a Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire — a French public-health cooperation structure under private law with a public mandate — that deploys and coordinates e-health and telehealth projects across the Brittany region. Founded in 2007 (per firmographic data) and headquartered in Rennes at 2 rue de Jouanet, the organization employs 11-50 staff and operates exclusively on the Brittany territory, serving all five Breton departments. Its customer base comprises sanitary professionals (hospitals, clinics), social and medico-social establishments (EHPAD, disability, childcare), liberal healthcare professionals, coordination devices (DAC, CLIC, CPTS), and patients — effectively all 2,517 Breton sanitary and ESMS establishments at an 88% ROR population rate, plus 21,000+ healthcare professionals sensitized to cybersecurity.

The organization's core platform is an interconnected suite of regional digital health services built on HL7 FHIR and CI-SIS interoperability standards. Core products include Globule (secure instant messaging for care coordination), ViaTrajectoire (patient orientation across sanitary, elderly, and disability pathways), the ROR (real-time bed availability and resource directory), MSS/MSSanté (secure health messaging), VISIO 3 (videoconferencing for multidisciplinary meetings), e-Suivi BZH (remote patient monitoring, including the Oncolink Article 51 experiment for oral anticancer therapy), and the Cercle de Soins (national FHIR-based care circle sharing service co-developed with Kereval). Supporting modules include GWALENN/Cirkell (complex case coordination), the Annuaire Régional (federated with national RPPS/RASS), Datavizh (bed capacity visualization), and the public-facing Télésanté Bretagne portal. The organization also coordinates national programs including Ségur du Numérique, ESMS Numérique, HOP'EN, and e-Parcours, with 2024-2028 funding secured via a CPOM contract with ARS Bretagne.

The business model is exclusively publicly funded: there is no commercial revenue from end users, and services are free at point of use for eligible Breton establishments and professionals. Funding flows from ARS Bretagne, CNSA, the Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS), l'Assurance Maladie, and national digital health investment programs (Ségur's €2 billion national program, ESMS Numérique, SUN-ES, SONS). GCS e-Santé Bretagne acts as a regional deployment and coordination layer, monetizing via institutional grants, member-establishment subscriptions, and government-backed program budgets rather than commercial transactions. The go-to-market is community-led: direct institutional engagement with health federations, field accompaniment by regional development officers, working groups (Collectif SI Médico-Social de Bretagne), webinars co-organized with ARS/CPAM/ANS, regional roadshows (Les Escales de la e-santé), and peer-to-peer adoption among Breton health professionals.

Name

E-Sante Bretagne

Legal name

Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire e-Santé Bretagne

Website

https://esante-bretagne.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

GCS e-Santé Bretagne is a publicly funded regional health cooperation group (Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire) that deploys and coordinates e-health and telehealth services for sanitary, medico-social, and liberal health professionals across the Brittany region of France, operating a FHIR-based platform of interconnected digital health tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regional Digital Health Coordination

NAICS

All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services (621999)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Virtual Visit & Video Conferencing APIs/SDKs (HIPAA-compliant) (HLALAKAA)

Keywords

• Regional digital health coordination
• Secure health messaging
• Care pathway orientation
• Telehealth platform services
• Health interoperability infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint-brieuc

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public institutional funding and regional health agency support: GCS e-Santé Bretagne is a Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire (GCS) — a private-law legal entity operating under public health mandate. The organization deploys and coordinates regional digital health projects with funding from ARS Bretagne (Agence Régionale de Santé Bretagne), CNSA (Caisse Nationale de Solidarité pour l'Autonomie), and national programs such as the Ségur du Numérique. It does not generate commercial revenue from end customers. Operations are financed through public investment programs (ESMS Numérique, SUN-ES, SONS), institutional subscriptions from member establishments, and government-backed digital health funding.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

E-Sante Bretagne operates a regional digital health platform that deploys and coordinates shared e-health services across Brittany, France. Its core offering is the operational rollout and field accompaniment of secure messaging (Globule, MSSanté), care pathway tools (ViaTrajectoire, GWALENN, Cirkell), resource directories (ROR, Annuaire Régional), telehealth services (Télésanté Bretagne, VISIO 3, e-Suivi BZH), and interoperability infrastructure (Cercle de Soins on HL7 FHIR). All services are provided free at point of use to eligible Breton health and medico-social establishments, supported by regional deployment officers and a dedicated private professional portal.

Product overview

E-Sante Bretagne operates as a regional digital health coordination body (GCS e-Santé Bretagne) offering a platform of interconnected services for healthcare professionals across Brittany, France. The core portfolio includes Globule (secure instant messaging), Télésanté Bretagne (telehealth portal), ROR (resource directory with real-time bed availability), and ViaTrajectoire (patient orientation system for multiple sectors). These are supported by complementary modules including GWALENN/Cirkell (care coordination), VISIO 3 (videoconferencing), e-Suivi BZH (remote patient monitoring), and MSS/Mon Espace Santé (secure messaging and personal health records). The organization coordinates national programs including Ségur du Numérique, ESMS Numérique, and HOP'EN, while operating interoperability infrastructure using FHIR/HL7 standards. The platform serves healthcare professionals, medico-social establishments, liberal practitioners, coordination devices (DAC/CLIC), and patients across the Brittany region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Globule: Secure instant messaging and information sharing service for healthcare professionals enabling coordinated patient care
• Télésanté Bretagne
• e-Suivi BZH
• Collectif SI Médico-Social de Bretagne
• ViaTrajectoire

Products and services

• Globule Secure instant messaging application enabling real-time information exchange between healthcare professionals for care coordination at the local level, with date-stamped patient-specific exchanges, photos, notifications, and multi-professional care circle loops.
• Télésanté Bretagne portal Regional telehealth portal providing information on teleconsultation, tele-expertise, remote monitoring, teleassistance, medical regulation, and tele-care, with practitioner listings, documentation, and a regional telehealth catalog.
• ROR (Répertoire Opérationnel des Ressources) Regional directory of sanitary and medico-social establishment resources, including real-time hospital bed availability visualization, covering 2,517 Breton establishments at 88% population rate.
• ViaTrajectoire
• e-Suivi BZH
• VISIO 3
• GWALENN
• Cirkell
• ORIS (Orientation Patients)
• Messagerie Sécurisée de Santé (MSS/MSSanté)
• Mon Espace Santé / Dossier Médical Partagé (DMP)
• eCerveau
• BIPS (Réseau Haut Débit)
• Annuaire de Santé Bretagne
• DCC (Dossier Communicant de Cancérologie)
• Identitovigilance / INS (Identité Nationale de Santé)
• ESMS Numérique / SONS program accompaniment
• Ségur du Numérique regional deployment
• Collectif SI Médico-Social Bretagne
• Interopérabilité Services (Cercle de Soins) Regional digital sharing service enabling healthcare professionals to create, update, and consult a patient's care circle across coordination applications, based on HL7 FHIR standards and CI-SIS specifications, with data retained 20 years post-coordination or 10 years post-death.
• e-Parcours
• HOP'EN
• Breizh ETP (Éducation Thérapeutique du Patient)

Quantifiable outcome

• 88% ROR population rate for 2,517 Breton establishments (national average: 67%)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability2 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ARS Bretagne (Agence Régionale de Santé Bretagne)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerARS Bretagne is the primary institutional funder and strategic partner of GCS e-Santé Bretagne, ensuring regional health agency alignment. ARS pilots the ESMS Numérique program regionally and co-organizes major digital health events with the GCS. The organizations share governance through the CPOM (Contrat Pluriannuel d'Objectifs et de Moyens) 2024-2028.
• Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerANS (formerly ASIP Santé) sets national digital health standards, operates programs including Ségur du Numérique, Ma Santé 2022, and the national ROR. GCS e-Santé Bretagne collaborates with ANS on interoperability specifications (CI-SIS, Cercle de Soins), projectathons, and national program deployment. The GCS participated as sponsor and moniteur in the ANS-organized projectathon technique 2022.
• KerevalcoreTechnology or IntegrationKereval, a specialist in software testing, partnered with GCS e-Santé Bretagne to develop the Cercle de Soins (care circle) interoperability specifications for the national CI-SIS framework. The collaboration produced FHIR-based technical specifications enabling care circle data sharing across regional health IT systems, tested at the ANS projectathon 2022 with 5 editors successfully passing interoperability tests.
• Collectif SI Médico-Social de BretagnecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Collectif SI Médico-Social de Bretagne is a regional working group comprising health federations, DACs, CPTS, CLICs, and sector networks. GCS e-Santé Bretagne provides technical backing and program coordination. The collective has its own roadmap (2022-2025) aligned with ESMS Numérique, with a dedicated website (collectif-si-ms.bzh) and organized the ESMS Bretagne Connect 2022 regional event.
• Fédération Hospitalière de France (FHF)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFHF is listed as a partner organization on the GCS e-Santé Bretagne website, alongside other national health federations, indicating mutual affiliation for coordination on hospital sector digital health matters.
• Féhap (Fédération des établissements hospitaliers et d'aide à la personne)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFéhap is listed as a partner organization on the GCS e-Santé Bretagne website, representing private non-profit health and social care establishments.
• Fédération de l'Hospitalisation Privée (FHP)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFHP is listed as a partner organization on the GCS e-Santé Bretagne website, representing private hospital sector establishments in Brittany.
• Inter URPS Bretagne (Unions Régionales des Professionnels de Santé)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorInter URPS Bretagne is listed as a partner organization, representing regional unions of health professionals across Brittany.
• Biotech Santé BretagneminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBiotech Santé Bretagne is a regional health-tech cluster that collaborates with GCS e-Santé Bretagne on innovation initiatives, including the European Interreg Intencive project and the 'Structures 3.0' call for projects for innovative digital solutions in the medico-social sector.
• European Interreg Intencive projectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIntencive is a European Interreg project, led by Biotech Santé Bretagne, aimed at improving quality and accessibility of health services for citizens through user-centered and technology-driven innovation. GCS e-Santé Bretagne participates in innovation exchange sessions organized in connection with this project.
• l'Assurance Maladie (CPAM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerL'Assurance Maladie co-organizes regional Ségur du Numérique and MSSanté deployment events with ARS Bretagne and GCS e-Santé Bretagne, and is involved in teleconsultation reimbursement policy and Mon Espace Santé promotion in Brittany.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• GCS e-Santé Pays de la Loire (GRADeS Pays de la Loire): Neighbouring French regional GCS/GRADeS structure with the same public-mandate, regional digital health coordination model covering sanitary and medico-social professionals, deploying comparable national programs (Ségur, ESMS Numérique, MSSanté, ROR).
• GCS SESAN (e-Santé Île-de-France): The Île-de-France regional GCS (now SESAN) operates the equivalent regional coordination model for the largest French region, running comparable platforms for secure messaging, coordination, telehealth and interoperability.
• GCS SARA (e-Santé Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes): Regional GCS/GRADeS for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, running the same public-funded regional digital health portfolio (ROR, MSSanté, Ségur, ESMS Numérique, tele-surveillance) under an ARS mandate.
• GCS e-Santé Hauts-de-France: Regional GCS for Hauts-de-France providing the same coordination, deployment, and support services for health and medico-social establishments, with shared national program exposure (Ségur, SUN-ES).
• GCS e-Santé Nouvelle-Aquitaine (NA-Santé / ESEA): Nouvelle-Aquitaine's regional GCS running parallel regional digital health infrastructure and program accompaniment (ROR, ViaTrajectoire, MSSanté, ESMS Numérique), with similar institutional funding model.
• e-Santé Occitanie (GCS e-Santé Occitanie): Regional GCS for Occitanie operating an analogous public-mandate portfolio of coordination, interoperability, telehealth and cybersecurity services for health professionals and ESMS.
• GCS e-Santé Centre-Val de Loire (e-Santé CVdL): Centre-Val de Loire regional GCS deploying the same national programs (Ségur, ESMS Numérique, MSSanté) and regional platforms (ROR, coordination tools) under an ARS CPOM.

Broad incumbents

• Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS): National agency that defines the standards (CI-SIS, HL7 FHIR profiles, INS, MSSanté, Mon Espace Santé, national ROR) that GCS e-Santé Bretagne deploys; functions as the upstream policy/standards setter and operating partner for the GCS.

Others

• Kereval: French interoperability and software testing specialist that co-developed the Cercle de Soins specifications with GCS e-Santé Bretagne; an ecosystem partner in CI-SIS conformance testing rather than a direct competitor.
• Catel (e-Santé réseau): French e-health network and think-tank active in telehealth and digital health ecosystems; comparable only in the sense of operating in the same French e-health coordination space, not a direct service competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

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