CREAI-ORS OCCITANIE

What CREAI-ORS OCCITANIE does

CREAI-ORS Occitanie is a non-profit regional health observatory and medico-social resource center (association loi 1901, SIREN 775 589 229) headquartered in Montpellier with a secondary office in Toulouse, serving all 13 departments of the Occitanie region in France. Formed in 2018 through the merger of ORSMIP and CREAI-ORS LR, the organization combines epidemiological surveillance, territorial health diagnostics, and professional support for social and medico-social establishments (ESSMS). Its primary clients are institutional: ARS Occitanie (the regional health agency), the 13 departmental councils, and municipal CCASs, which commission studies, analyses, and training under public health mandates.

The organization's core outputs fall into three categories. First, data platforms: OSCARS (cartographic database of ARS-financed health prevention and promotion actions), CartoPsy Occitanie (mental health indicators co-piloted with FERREPSY), and DOCcitanie (collaborative documentary portal co-owned with Promotion Santé Occitanie, rebuilt in December 2025). Second, territorial research products: 'portraits de territoires' for all 13 departments and 'profils santé' at EPCI and municipal level, used as preliminary studies for Local Health Contracts (CLS). Third, professional services: training programs (2026 catalogue, START neurodevelopmental disorders program), audit-diagnostic assessments, continuous improvement support, and documentation services. CRÉAI-ORS holds CNIL-authorized access to SNDS mortality data via its Fnors membership, governed by deliberations 2021-046 and 2024-022.

Revenue is derived from public institutional funding (primarily ARS Occitanie commissioning), training fees, and subscription-based services (notably the 'Le Pélican' newsletter), while most publications, data platforms, and newsletters are freely accessible. The organization has 21 employees and operates exclusively within the Occitanie region. No ownership changes, funding rounds, or M&A activity are evidenced in the available data.

Name

CREAI-ORS OCCITANIE

Legal name

CREAI ORS OCCITANIE

Website

https://creaiors-occitanie.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CREAI-ORS Occitanie is a non-profit regional health observatory serving institutional clients in the Occitanie region of France, providing territorial health diagnostics, data platforms, and professional support to ARS, departmental councils, and medico-social establishments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regional Health Observatory Services

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Systems Strengthening & Global Health Technical Assistance (BPADAEAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations (HLAJAKAN), State/Provincial Health Department & Public Health Administration (BPAIABAH)

Keywords

• Regional health observatory
• Public health studies
• Medico-social support
• Territorial health data
• Professional training health

Headquarters

HQ city

Montpellier

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Public institutional funding: As a non-profit association under French law 1901 (SIREN 775 589 229), CREAI-ORS Occitanie operates primarily through public funding from institutional clients including ARS Occitanie, Départements, and municipalities that commission studies, analyses, and training services.
2. Training services: The organization offers a training catalog (catalogue de formation 2026) including the START program for neurodevelopmental disorders. Some training programs are free while others are paid, with revenue supporting educational activities.
3. Documentation services: Documentation services including lending, bibliographic references, and themed bibliographies. Some publications and services such as 'Le Pélican' newsletter are paid.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

CREAI-ORS Occitanie operates as a regional health observatory and resource center that produces territorial health studies, standardized data products (Profils Santé, Portraits de territoires), data platforms (OSCARS, CartoPsy, DOCcitanie), training programmes (notably START for neurodevelopmental disorders), and professional accompaniment services for social and medico-social establishments across all 13 departments of the Occitanie region in France. Its work is commissioned primarily by public institutional clients including ARS Occitanie, departmental councils, and municipalities.

Product overview

CREAI-ORS Occitanie is a regional health observatory and information center that operates as a unified service organization rather than a commercial product company. Its offerings consist primarily of public health research products, data platforms, and support services. The core products include: data visualization platforms (CartoPsy Occitanie for mental health data, OSCARS for regional health actions); collaborative documentation tools (Doccitanie); territorial research products (Profils Santé, Portraits de territoires); a directory service (Annuaire ESMS); and professional support services (training, practice support, initiative showcase). These offerings are interconnected through shared health data infrastructure and serve public health stakeholders in the Occitanie region rather than functioning as a commercial SaaS product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• OSCARS (Observation et suivi cartographique des actions régionales de santé) Cartographic database presenting regional health prevention and health promotion actions financed by ARS Occitanie, with a national Moi(s) sans tabac module and a regional therapeutic patient education module. Used by institutional planners and prevention actors.
• CartoPsy Occitanie Data visualization tool for mental health and psychiatry indicators in Occitanie, presenting data as geographic maps, tables, and syntheses. Co-piloted by FERREPSY Occitanie and CREAI-ORS Occitanie.
• Doccitanie (Doccitanie Santé) Collaborative regional documentary portal co-created with Promotion Santé Occitanie providing shared access to health documentation, journals, bibliographies, and thematic resources across the Occitanie region.
• Profils Santé (Health Profiles) Territorial health profiles providing quantitative data on social and health characteristics, healthcare supply, and services at the EPCI or municipal level, used as preliminary studies for Local Health Contracts (CLS).
• Portraits de territoires Departmental portraits produced for the Regional Health Project 2023-2027 containing data on demographics, social characteristics, living environment, health status, healthcare supply, and medico-social services across the 13 departments of Occitanie.
• Annuaire ESMS Directory service for searching social and medico-social establishments and services in Occitanie, accessible via the ViaTrajectoire platform.
• Documentation and bibliographic services Access to documentary services including BIB-BOP documentary files, literature reviews, thematic bibliographies, journals, TREND press review, new acquisitions, and documentary monitoring (Infos-Doc Santé, Le Péllican).
• START Programme Pluriprofessional training programme in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders (TND) for territory-based implementation, offered as part of the Catalogue de formation 2026.
• Professional practice support services (accompagnement des pratiques professionnelles) Support services for ESSMS including establishment project support, continuous improvement approach support, audit-diagnostic assessments, and other technical support for social and medico-social professionals.
• Initiatives régionales (regional initiative showcase) Platform showcasing regional initiatives from ESSMS to promote innovation and best practices in the medico-social sector across Occitanie.

Quantifiable outcome

• Territorial health portraits published for all 13 departments of Occitanie
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Fédération nationale des observatoires régionaux de la santé (Fnors)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 April 2021CREAI-ORS Occitanie is a member of Fnors, which grants access to anonymized mortality data (CépiDc) through CNIL-authorized secure processing. Fnors and OR2S are the responsible data controllers. This membership provides national network visibility and data access critical to the organization's surveillance mission.
• FERREPSY OccitaniecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Co-pilots the Observatoire Régional Santé Mentale (ORSM) Occitanie with CREAI-ORS Occitanie. ORSM produces mental health data visualized through the CartoPsy Occitanie platform.
• ARS OccitaniecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Primary institutional partner and funder commissioning studies, annual device monitoring reports, training programs, and territorial health analyses across all 13 departments of Occitanie. The relationship is governed by public health policy mandates.
• Promotion Santé OccitaniecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Co-created the DOCcitanie collaborative documentary portal in 2018, rebuilt in December 2025. This partnership combines documentation expertise and health promotion resources across the region.
• Médecins du Monde FranceminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011Since 2011, CREAI-ORS Occitanie has participated in the analysis of data from the Observatoire de l'accès aux droits et aux soins de Médecins du Monde France. This collaboration supports research on vulnerable populations and health access disparities.
• Santé publique FranceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the national Moi(s) sans tabac module within the OSCARS platform and co-funder of specific studies such as the Covid-19 cluster analysis in Perpignan's Gitan community.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ORS Pays de la Loire: Regional health observatory covering Pays de la Loire, performing the same function of territorial health studies, epidemiological surveillance, and policy support for its regional health agency (ARS Pays de la Loire) and departmental partners.
• OR2S Hauts-de-France: Regional health observatory covering Hauts-de-France, co-controller of SNDS mortality data with Fnors — making it both a direct peer in mission and a counterpart on the data access dimension that distinguishes CREAI-ORS.
• ORS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ORS ARA): Regional health observatory for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, providing comparable territorial health studies, profiles, and policy support to ARS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes under the Fnors framework.
• ORS Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Regional health observatory serving Nouvelle-Aquitaine with health studies, epidemiological surveillance, and territorial diagnostics for ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine and departmental partners.
• ORS PACA (Observatoire Régional de la Santé Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur): Regional health observatory for PACA producing health profiles, studies, and data for ARS PACA and territorial actors; one of the other Fnors-affiliated observatories with identical mandate structure.
• ORS Grand Est (ORSGE): Regional health observatory for Grand Est producing regional health analyses, profiles, and studies for ARS Grand Est, operating under the same Fnors national federation.
• ORS Île-de-France (ORS-IdF): Regional health observatory for Île-de-France providing health data, studies, and analyses to ARS Île-de-France, with comparable outputs on territorial health portraits and medico-social accompaniment.

Regional players

• Promotion Santé Occitanie: Regional health promotion actor that co-created DOCcitanie with CREAI-ORS; operates in Occitanie on prevention and health promotion with a complementary but non-overlapping mandate.

Broad incumbents

• Santé publique France: National public health agency performing surveillance, studies, and prevention at national scale; a partner of CREAI-ORS (e.g., Moi(s) sans tabac module in OSCARS) but operating as a much larger incumbent across all regions.

Others

• Fnors (Fédération nationale des observatoires régionaux de la santé): National federation of regional health observatories; provides CREAI-ORS with SNDS mortality data access and national visibility, and is the umbrella body through which regional observatories collaborate and standardize methodology.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/creaiors-occitanie

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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