France Cohortes offers support functions ranging from data collection - development and administration of computerized questionnaires, integration of data from clinical examinations and measuring devices - to the structuring, cleaning, and statistical analysis of such data.

Hosting is done within the framework on data protection and the security repository of the national health data system (SNDS), through an efficient, secure certified “health data hosting” (HDS) infrastructure to guarantee the security and traceability of processing, to make it impossible to disseminate data, and to document GDPR compliance in a systematic, centralized manner.

The service offering includes support for obtaining regulatory authorizations from the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL), the Ethical Research Committees (CPP), the Ethics and Scientific Committee for Research, studies and assessments in the field of health (CESRESS) etc., and support for the development of data sharing plans, the development of industrial partnerships via Inserm Transfert, etc.

France Cohortes aims to adopt best practices in accordance with the FAIR principles to promote the visibility, quality, and reuse of data. This approach will be included from the design of the projects and throughout the life cycle of the data. Such support takes the form of training proposals and appropriate tools.