The ongoing modernisation of hospital information systems, particularly medical information systems, which the Court and the Regional Audit Chambers have analysed, is likely to make an important contribution to this essential progress. Under the impetus of successive national plans, in particular the most structuring Digital Hospital programme in force, hospital computing is in fact gradually modernizing. The awareness of the issues it is carrying through the hospital communities, especially the medical profession, is the major fact of recent years. It has helped to redefine hospital IT development strategies.