IRFSS - Croix-Rouge

What IRFSS - Croix-Rouge does

IRFSS - Croix-Rouge operates CREADOC (Croix-Rouge Échanges d'Activités Documentaires), a national documentation network run by Croix-Rouge Française, the French Red Cross. The network consists of 25+ physical documentation centers organized under 11 regional competence clusters spanning Grand Est, Nouvelle Aquitaine, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, Normandie, Centre-Val de Loire, Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, Ile de France, Occitanie, Hauts de France, and PACAC regions. These centers provide access to healthcare and social services databases curated by a national network of specialized documentarians within the Croix-Rouge Française organizational structure.

The underlying technology is a keyword-based search system that uses the standardized Banque de Données Santé Publique (BDSP) thesaurus to enable consistent indexing and retrieval across all documentation centers. Each center maintains its own portal (e.g., centredocumentation.creadoc.croix-rouge.fr and regional subdomains), providing localized access to the shared content corpus covering sanitary and social sector documentation. There is no evidence of APIs, mobile applications, third-party integrations, or advanced technology components beyond the portal-based search infrastructure.

As a function of a nonprofit humanitarian organization, CREADOC does not operate as an independent revenue-generating business. There is no publicly disclosed pricing, no external customer acquisition motion, and no headcount data available. The primary users are internal Croix-Rouge Française staff, healthcare and social services professionals, and students/educators accessing training and research materials. The entity serves as an internal knowledge management and professional development infrastructure rather than a commercially monetized product, making traditional revenue and growth metrics inapplicable.

Name

IRFSS - Croix-Rouge

Legal name

Croix-Rouge Française

Website

https://centredocumentation.croix-rouge.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

IRFSS - Croix-Rouge operates CREADOC, a national network of 25+ documentation centers run by the French Red Cross, providing healthcare and social services professionals, staff, and students with standardized access to curated sanitary and social databases across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare and Social-Services Documentation

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDADABAC

Regional Education Service Agencies (ESAs/BOCES/Intermediate Units)

Education/Education Administration, Accreditation & Policy/School Districts, Local Education Authorities & Boards

Keywords

• Healthcare documentation services
• Social services databases
• Medical thesaurus search
• Professional training resources
• Humanitarian research tools

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

IRFSS - Croix-Rouge operates the CREADOC (Croix-Rouge Échanges d'Activités Documentaires) network, a national documentation-center system run by the French Red Cross. It provides healthcare and social-services professionals with standardized access to shared sanitary and social databases through regional portals, with indexing driven by the BDSP public-health thesaurus.

Product overview

IRFSS - Croix-Rouge operates CREADOC (Croix-Rouge Echanges d'Activités Documentaires), a national network of documentation centers offering healthcare and social databases. The network spans multiple regional branches across France including Grand Est, Nouvelle Aquitaine, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, Normandie, Centre-Val de Loire, Bretagne - Pays de la Loire, Ile de France, Occitanie, Hauts de France, and PACAC regions. Each regional center provides local access to the shared documentation database.

Differentiator

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Functional benefit

Brands

• Croix-Rouge Compétence Grand Est: Croix-Rouge Compétence Grand Est - Documentation center network for Grand Est region
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Nouvelle Aquitaine
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Auvergne Rhône Alpes
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Normandie
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Centre-Val de Loire
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Bretagne - Pays de la Loire
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Ile de France
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Occitanie
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Hauts de France
• Croix-Rouge Compétence PACAC

Products and services

• CREADOC - Croix-Rouge Échanges d'Activités Documentaires National network of documentation centers operated by the French Red Cross, providing healthcare and social-services professionals with standardized access to consolidated sanitary and social databases through 25+ regional portals using the BDSP thesaurus for keyword searches.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Croix-Rouge Compétence Grand EstcoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Châlons-en-Champagne and Metz. Part of the national CREADOC network of Croix-Rouge Française.
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Nouvelle AquitainecoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Bègles and Limoges. Part of the national CREADOC network.
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Auvergne Rhône AlpescoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Moulins, Lyon, St-Etienne, and Valence. Part of the national CREADOC network.
• Croix-Rouge Compétence NormandiecoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Alençon and Bois-Guillaume. Part of the national CREADOC network.
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Centre-Val de LoirecoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Tours and Bourges. Part of the national CREADOC network.
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Bretagne - Pays de la LoirecoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Le Mans, Nantes, Laval, Saint-Jean-De-Monts, and Brest. Part of the national CREADOC network.
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Ile de FrancecoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Paris and Mantes-la-jolie. Part of the national CREADOC network.
• Croix-Rouge Compétence OccitaniecoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Nîmes and Toulouse. Part of the national CREADOC network.
• Croix-Rouge Compétence Hauts de FrancecoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Calais, Tourcoing, Lens, Douai, Bethune, and Arras. Part of the national CREADOC network.
• Croix-Rouge Compétence PACACcoreOthersRegional competence center managing documentation centers in Nice, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and Ollioules. Part of the national CREADOC network covering the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS): French national health authority producing clinical guidelines and reference documentation used by the same healthcare professionals CREADOC serves. Adjacent documentation role with regulatory weight and a much larger content footprint.
• ProQuest / Clarivate: Aggregated academic and healthcare database provider offering centralized research portals to libraries and educational institutions. Comparable in being a centralized documentation discovery layer for an institutional user base.
• EBSCO Information Services: Major provider of research databases and library discovery services used by health and social-work institutions globally. Functionally similar to a CREADOC-style curated documentation layer but commercial and much broader in scope.
• Santé Publique France: France's national public health agency, producing and disseminating public health knowledge and documentation at a much larger scale. Overlaps with CREADOC's information-access role but covers the entire public-health knowledge universe rather than a curated documentation network.
• Wolters Kluwer Health: Global medical information provider (UpToDate, Ovid, Lippincott) that serves clinicians and healthcare educators with curated reference content. Comparable audience (healthcare professionals/students) but at vastly larger scale and with paid commercial offerings.

Others

• Croix-Rouge Française (national HQ): Parent organization operating CREADOC as one of its training and professional-development arms. Operates parallel training/documentation functions across healthcare and social services; the institutional context for any commercial or strategic repositioning of CREADOC.

Regional players

• Observatoire Régional de la Santé (ORS) networks: Federation of French regional health observatories producing and indexing regional health/social documentation. Structurally analogous to CREADOC's regional-competence-center model, though focused on health-data analysis rather than professional documentation access.
• EHESP (École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique): Leading French school of public health, providing documentation and research resources to health professionals and students. Comparable target audience and documentation function, but focused on academic public health rather than the field-social mix CREADOC serves.

Direct peers

• CISMeF (Catalogue et Index des Sites Médicaux de langue Française): French-language catalog of medical/health web resources for health professionals and students. Same mission surface as CREADOC (indexed access to health documentation) and same target users in the French healthcare ecosystem.
• Banque de Données Santé Publique (BDSP): The thesaurus and database that CREADOC builds its search layer on top of, making it the foundational peer — same domain (French public health documentation), same end users, and technically coupled via shared indexing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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