CNRD (Centre National Ressources Douleur) - APHP

What CNRD (Centre National Ressources Douleur) - APHP does

CNRD (Centre National de Ressources de lutte contre la Douleur) is a public French national resource center dedicated to pain management information and professional training. Established in 2017 and operating as a formal structure of Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), the center is headquartered at Hôpital Trousseau in Paris with a secondary secretariat in Ivry-sur-Seine. It is financed by a Mission d'Intérêt Général (MIG) from the French Ministry of Health and operates a small team of approximately 5 employees.

The core offering is a web portal (cnrd.fr) providing a searchable digital database of pain management resources — including pre-built bibliographies organized by population (newborns, children, adolescents, elderly, disabled) and condition (chronic pain, cancer pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, IBS, endometriosis), clinical guidelines, training videos, regulatory references, and curated content for both healthcare professionals (via registered accounts) and the general public (without login). A complementary physical documentary fund is available for on-site consultation at Campus Picpus in Paris through a partnership with the AP-HP Documentation Centre. The platform is built on a standard web portal framework developed and maintained by third-party vendor AIDEL, with no public API, no application, and no disclosed AI capabilities.

Commercially, CNRD is a non-revenue entity: all resources and services are provided free of charge, funded entirely through public MIG allocation. The customer base consists of two primary segments — healthcare professionals (registered users with access to specialized content, saved searches, and bulletin subscriptions) and the general public/patients (consuming accessible pain information). The center's strategic role is as a publicly mandated curator and disseminator of authoritative pain management knowledge within the French healthcare system, not as a commercial venture.

Name

CNRD (Centre National Ressources Douleur) - APHP

Legal name

Centre National Ressources Douleur

Website

https://cnrd.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CNRD is a French national resource center under APHP that provides a free, publicly funded web portal and documentary library on pain management for healthcare professionals and patients. It is financed by a Mission d'Intérêt Général from the Ministry of Health.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Public funding (Mission d'Intérêt Général): CNRD is a public healthcare resource structure funded by a Mission d'Intérêt Général (MIG) from the French Ministry of Health. As a public institution under APHP, it operates on government funding rather than commercial revenue.

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CNRD operates a publicly funded web portal and national resource center that provides a searchable digital database of pain management documentation, including pre-built bibliographies, scientific publications, clinical recommendations, and training materials. It serves healthcare professionals with specialized content and accounts, and provides accessible pain information for patients and the general public. A complementary physical documentary collection is available on-site at Campus Picpus in Paris through partnership with the AP-HP Documentation Centre.

Product overview

CNRD operates as a web-based resource center providing healthcare professionals and the general public with access to pain management information through its searchable web portal. The core offering consists of a digital bibliographic database with pre-built bibliographies organized by topic (populations, pain types, treatments), combined with user accounts offering saved searches and newsletter subscriptions. A complementary physical documentary collection is available at Campus Picpus in Paris. The portal features specialized content for professionals alongside accessible resources for patients and caregivers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CNRD Web Portal Comprehensive web portal providing searchable access to a digital bibliographic database of pain management resources, including clinical guidelines, scientific references, training materials, and dedicated content sections for healthcare professionals and the general public.
• Pre-built Bibliographies Curated bibliographic compilations organized by pain-related topics (populations, pathophysiology, pain types, and treatments) that are available on-demand or in preparation for events and conferences, primarily intended for healthcare professionals.
• Physical Documentary Fund at Campus Picpus Complementary physical document collection on pain management topics, available for on-site consultation at Campus Picpus in Paris in partnership with the AP-HP Documentation Centre. No lending service is offered.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCNRD is a formal structure of APHP. APHP provides institutional support and infrastructure, including hosting of the website at Hôpital Trousseau. The partnership enables access to the broader AP-HP network of healthcare resources and documentation services.
• Centre de documentation de l'AP-HPcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the physical documentary fund at Campus Picpus, Paris. The collaboration enables CNRD to supplement its digital database with physical consultation of works on pain management topics.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• UpToDate: Commercial clinical decision support resource used by physicians worldwide. Comparable to CNRD as a clinical reference resource for healthcare professionals, but commercial and broader in scope.
• VIDAL: French reference database for medications and medical information used by healthcare professionals. Comparable to CNRD as a clinical information resource serving French healthcare professionals, but focused on drug information.

Direct peers

• Orphanet: Public reference portal for rare diseases and orphan drugs hosted by INSERM. Comparable to CNRD as a French publicly-funded disease-specific knowledge resource with professional and patient-facing content.
• Cochrane Library: International collection of evidence-based systematic reviews in healthcare. Comparable to CNRD as a knowledge aggregator producing curated, evidence-based resources referenced by healthcare professionals and patients.
• SFETD (Société Française d'Étude et de Traitement de la Douleur): French national scientific society for pain study and treatment. Directly comparable to CNRD as the leading professional body aggregating pain research, guidelines, and professional education in France.

Broad incumbents

• Santé Publique France: French national public health agency providing evidence-based health information. Comparable to CNRD as a public institution disseminating authoritative health information to professionals and the public.
• IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain): Global professional society for pain research and treatment. Comparable to CNRD as a knowledge aggregation body for pain science, with international scope versus CNRD's national French focus.
• Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS): French national health authority producing clinical guidelines and recommendations. Comparable to CNRD as a public authority publishing evidence-based healthcare guidance, including on pain and palliative care.

Others

• Ameli.fr (CNAM): French national health insurance portal providing patient-facing health information. Adjacent to CNRD as a publicly-funded French health information resource, but focused on insurance and general health guidance rather than acute pain management.
• PubMed / NLM: US National Library of Medicine biomedical literature database. Comparable to CNRD's bibliographic database as a foundational scientific and medical literature search resource, serving an overlapping professional audience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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