["The city-hospital link is based on the characteristics of the target population and its needs"]. / « L'articulation ville-hôpital se pense à partir des caractéristiques de la population cible et de ses besoins ¼.

Strengthening the city-hospital network is intended to improve the response to the needs of people who move back and forth through the healthcare system. Édouard Habib, Director of the Fédération régionale des dispositifs de ressources et d'appui à la coordination des parcours de santé d'Île-de-France, and Marie-Dominique Lussier, a geriatrician and expert in the field of health care pathways, discussed ways to achieve this goal. In particular, they specified that it was important to think in terms of target populations, to consider networking as a meta-organization capable of adapting to changing needs, and to transform digital tools into vectors for this networking.

Medico-economic evaluation of healthcare products. Methodology for defining a significant impact on French health insurance costs and selection of benchmarks for interpreting results.

Decree No. 2012-1116 of 2 October 2012 on medico-economic assignments of the French National Authority for Health (Haute autorité de santé, HAS) significantly alters the conditions for accessing the health products market in France. This paper presents a theoretical framework for interpreting the results of the economic evaluation of health technologies and summarises the facts available in France for developing benchmarks that will be used to interpret incremental cost-effectiveness ratios. This literature review shows that it is difficult to determine a threshold value but it is also difficult to interpret then incremental cost effectiveness ratio (ICER) results without a threshold value. In this context, round table participants favour a pragmatic approach based on "benchmarks" as opposed to a threshold value, based on an interpretative and normative perspective, i.e. benchmarks that can change over time based on feedback.