DAC Var Est

What DAC Var Est does

DAC Var Est (Dispositif d'Appui à la coordination du Var Est) is a French non-profit association under loi 1901, established in 2022 and headquartered at the Centre Hospitalier de la Dracénie in Draguignan, France. It operates as a publicly mandated coordination support device for healthcare, social, and medico-social professionals across the Var department in southeastern France, addressing fragmented care pathways by serving as a single point of coordination for complex cases. The organization delivers a portfolio of core services — Information, Orientation, Supported Coordination, Intensive Coordination, and Territorial Animation — alongside specialized programs (EMGEH, EMPSA, PRADO, HAD) targeting autonomy loss prevention, home care maintenance, caregiver support, and complex hospital transitions. Its technology backbone is the Azurezo digital platform for inter-professional discussions and referrals, supplemented by the Observatoire des Ruptures de Parcours (ORP) territorial data observatory.

The organization employs roughly 10 people across two territorial hubs (Var Est and Var Ouest) and operates through 3 proximity antennas covering 84 communes, having handled more than 5,000 sollicitations since January 1, 2023. Its business model is purely publicly funded — the Agence Régionale de Santé (ARS) PACA finances the entire operation as part of France's national DAC policy framework, with services provided free of charge to all healthcare professionals and patients. Revenue is therefore best understood as a public service budget allocation rather than commercial revenue. The go-to-market is community-led and partnership-driven, relying on an extensive embedded network of institutional partners including ARS PACA, CPAM Var, CARSAT, MSA, multiple URPS professional unions, CPTS territorial communities, the Conseil Départemental du Var, GRADES PACA, and the FEHAP federation.

DAC Var Est's competitive position rests on a regulatory moat — DACs are government-designated coordination devices with structural barriers to entry — and on deep ecosystem lock-in with institutional payers and professional unions. Its product surface is operationally mature but offers no proprietary AI/ML capability; data advantage is institutional rather than technological. The organization's expansion signals are concentrated in deepening its territorial mandate (new observatory product, more proximity antennas, vertical specialization in geriatric and palliative pathways) rather than commercial scaling.

Name

DAC Var Est

Legal name

DAC Var Est

Website

https://dac83.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

DAC Var Est is a French publicly funded non-profit coordination device established in 2022, serving healthcare, social, and medico-social professionals across the Var department with information, orientation, and supported coordination services for complex patient pathways.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dracénie

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Public Health Funding: The DAC Var is financed by the Agence Régionale de Santé (ARS) PACA, functioning as a public service mission without direct revenue generation from beneficiaries.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

DAC Var Est is a non-profit coordination support service for healthcare, social, and medico-social professionals in the Var department of France. It provides information, orientation, and coordination services to prevent care pathway ruptures, covering 84 communes in Var Ouest through 3 antennas. The organization serves as a single point of contact that bridges healthcare, social, and medico-social actors handling complex situations.

Product overview

DAC Var Est operates as a coordination support device for healthcare professionals in the Var Est territory. The organization provides a unified platform of coordinated services including Information, Orientation, Supported Coordination, Intensive Coordination, and Territorial Animation. The portfolio integrates specialized services such as EMGEH, EMPSA, PRADO, and HAD for home care maintenance and hospitalization preparation. Additionally, the Observatoire des Ruptures de Parcours (ORP) supports quality improvement through pathway rupture analysis. The service operates across 84 communes with 3 proximity antennas, serving health, social, and medico-social professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Information and Orientation Service
• Supported Coordination
• Intensive Coordination
• Territorial Animation
• Observatoire des Ruptures de Parcours (ORP)
• EMGEH (Équipe Mobile Gérontologie Handicap)

Quantifiable outcome

• 5000+ sollicitations handled since January 2023

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• FEHAP (Fédération des établissements hospitaliers et d'Aide à la Personne Privés Non Lucratifs)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2022The association DAC Var Ouest is a member of FEHAP, the federation of private non-profit hospitals and home care institutions, providing institutional support and representation.
• Agence Régionale de Santé PACAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary funding source and strategic partner. DAC Var is financed by ARS PACA as part of regional healthcare coordination initiatives. ARS PACA provides operational funding and strategic direction for the coordination mission.
• CARSAT (Caisse d'Assurance Retraite et de la Santé au Travail)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRetirement and occupational health insurance fund that collaborates with DAC Var on coordinating care for insured populations, particularly for elderly care pathways.
• MSA (Mutualité Sociale Agricole)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgricultural social mutual insurance providing health coverage for farmers and rural populations, partnering on care coordination for MSA beneficiaries in the Var region.
• CPAM VAR (Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie du Var)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary health insurance fund for the Var department, collaborating on healthcare pathway coordination and insurance-related care transitions.
• URPS (Unions Régionales des Professionnels de Santé) - Pharmaciens, ML, IDEmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional unions of health professionals including pharmacists, libre physicians (ML), and liberal nurses (IDE) that collaborate on care coordination initiatives and professional practice improvements.
• Centre Hospitalier de la DracéniecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional hospital center serving as the headquarters location for DAC Var Est and key partner for hospital discharge coordination and complex case management.
• CPTS (Communauté Professionnelle Territoriale de Santé)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTerritorial professional health communities comprising multiple healthcare professionals collaborating to improve local health services and care pathways.
• AZUREZOcoreTechnology or IntegrationDigital health platform integrated into DAC Var operations for coordination discussions, referrals, and inter-professional communication on care cases.
• CD VAR (Conseil Départemental du Var)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDepartmental council providing social care funding and coordination for social and medico-social services in the Var department.
• GRADES PACAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional support group providing technical assistance and expertise for healthcare coordination in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• DAC Lyon Rhône (DAC 69): Direct peer delivering the same Dispositif d'Appui à la Coordination services in the Rhône department, addressing fragmented care pathways for complex patients through ARS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes funding and equivalent professional partnership models.
• DAC 13 (Dispositif d'Appui à la Coordination des Bouches-du-Rhône): Direct peer operating an identical DAC coordination model in the neighboring Bouches-du-Rhône department within the same PACA region, serving the same categories of healthcare and medico-social professionals with the same ARS PACA public-service mission framework.
• DAC Paris (DAC 75): Direct peer implementing the national DAC framework in Paris, with comparable information/orientation/coordination service lines and an ORP-equivalent pathway-rupture observatory, operating at greater urban scale but under the same national policy mandate.
• DAC Azur (DAC 06 - Alpes-Maritimes): Direct peer running the same DAC coordination device in the Alpes-Maritimes department, also under ARS PACA funding and serving overlapping professional constituencies (liberal health professionals, social workers, hospitals) with comparable service tiers.

Broad incumbents

• ARS Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: The regional health agency that funds, regulates, and defines the strategic mandate of every DAC in the PACA region — not a competitor but the governing incumbent whose policy choices directly shape DAC Var Est's operating envelope, service scope, and KPIs.

Others

• FEHAP (Fédération des établissements hospitaliers et d'Aide à la Personne Privés Non Lucratifs): National federation of which DAC Var Ouest is itself a member; broadly comparable as an institutional actor representing non-profit healthcare coordination structures, providing governance templates, advocacy, and benchmarking that shape how DAC Var Est operates.

Regional players

• Réseau de Santé Périnatalité PACA: Regional health network operating in the same PACA territory with a coordination mandate across sanitary, social, and medico-social actors for a specific population; structurally comparable as a publicly-funded regional coordination body partnering with ARS PACA.

Emerging players

• PTA Île-de-France (Plateforme Territoriale d'Appui): Predecessor/effiliation-era model that historically coordinated complex cases for healthcare professionals in Île-de-France; conceptually adjacent to the DAC framework and operates with overlapping coordination, orientation, and supported-coordination missions.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

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