Option: NetExplorer HDS
The dedicated compliance option
ing health data
The NetExplorer HDS option allows you to store, share, and collaborate on health data in full compliance with French legislation. Hosted on HDS (Health Data Host) certified infrastructure, this option meets the most stringent requirements for medical data security and confidentiality.
Why choose the NetExplorer HDS option?
Full compliance with the HDS standard
Thanks to HDS-certified infrastructure, your health data is hosted in an environment validated by the French Digital Health Agency (ANS), ensuring compliance with French legal requirements.
Enhanced encryption for your sensitive data
Your files are protected by encryption with a dedicated key, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of the data exchanged. Only authorized users can access them.
A sovereign and controlled solution
The infrastructure is located in France, in Tier 3+ and Tier 4 certified data centers.
From software development to hosting, the company controls all of its solutions without any dependence on external parties and outside the scope of the Cloud Act.
The goal was clear: to provide a controlled and secure environment while maintaining natural, uncomplicated use."
Understanding HDS certification: more than just compliance, a commitment to security
HDS (Health Data Host) certification is a regulatory requirement in France for any organization that hosts or processes personal health data, whether it relates to patients, healthcare professionals, or medical devices.
But beyond the legal obligation, NetExplorer HDS embodies an active commitment to the protection of sensitive data. This certification guarantees that our infrastructure complies with a rigorous set of rules in terms of physical, logical, and organizational security, defined by the French Digital Health Agency (ANS).
A comprehensive and controlled compliance framework
The requirements cover, in particular: Strict control of data access, secure exchanges and processing, traceability of all actions performed on files, business continuity and disaster recovery processes.
At NetExplorer, this compliance is part of a comprehensive certification framework (ISO 27001, ISO 9001, GDPR, etc.) designed to provide a sovereign, consistent, and fully controlled ecosystem.
Key guarantees of the NetExplorer HDS offering
The NetExplorer HDS option is based on a dedicated, certified infrastructure set up specifically to meet the requirements of the healthcare sector. Here are the main features included in this offer:
Advanced security
- Data encryption with dedicated key
Each customer with the HDS option benefits from specific encryption with a unique encryption key, ensuring strict separation of environments and enhanced confidentiality control. - User access protection
Secure authentication, granular rights management, comprehensive connection logging: every action is tracked to ensure complete transparency. - HDS isolated environment
Your files are stored on a separate physical infrastructure that meets HDS standards, with specific security procedures and rigorous incident management.
Full functional compatibility
The HDS option is compatible with all NetExplorer features, including: secure sharing and drop links, online co-editing features, document versioning and history, download restrictions and read receipts, mobile access, and workstation synchronization.
Certified sovereign hosting
Data centers in France, certified as Health Data Hosts.
24/7 monitoring and maintenance carried out exclusively by technicians based in France
Legal protection against extraterritorial legislation such as the Cloud Act or FISA.
What is included in the NetExplorer HDS option
In order to allocate a dedicated HDS infrastructure and generate your own encryption key, you will need to contact one of our experts or your account manager.
NetExplorer HDS
File encryption with a dedicated key per organization
HDS-certified hosting environment, compliant with the French Digital Health Agency (ANS) standards
Compliant use of personal health data
NetExplorer technical support with HDS expertise
NetExplorer HDS: for which use cases?
Laboratories, biotech companies, and research institutes:
ensuring compliance and traceability
In multicenter studies, exchanges may involve national and international partners. The challenge is to secure data storage and sharing while ensuring complete transparency regarding access and modifications.
NetExplorer HDS allows you to centralize all documents related to clinical projects in an environment that complies with HDS certification. Version management ensures that changes to protocols and regulatory documents are tracked, while access traceability meets audit and quality control requirements. The use case of one of our customers, Biotrial, highlights a concrete example of document management.
Healthcare facilities: securing exchanges
Healthcare professionals handle large volumes of sensitive medical data on a daily basis. In this context, healthcare data hosting is not limited to simply providing secure storage space. It must enable precise access control, complete traceability of actions performed on documents, and appropriate compartmentalization.
NetExplorer HDS provides a structured response to these needs. Access rights can be defined by department, with different roles, ensuring that each person only has access to the information necessary for their job. Every consultation, download, or share is logged, facilitating internal audits and regulatory controls. Exchanges with external parties are carried out via secure, encrypted, and time-limited links, ensuring the protection of medical data while maintaining the fluidity of care pathways.
Independent healthcare professionals: securing exchanges
without complicating everyday life
General practitioners, specialists, physical therapists, nurses, and psychologists can exchange sensitive documents with their patients or colleagues via encrypted, time-limited, and traceable links.
For these professionals, the challenge is twofold: ensuring the protection of health data while maintaining tools that are simple and quick to use. A health data hosting solution can only be effective if it integrates naturally into daily practice.
NetExplorer HDS allows medical documents to be sent and received via secure, password-protected, time-limited links , in particular thanks to NetExplorer Share Portals.
Telemedicine platforms and healthcare networks: integrating a compliant healthcare cloud into complex environments
Teleconsultation platforms, care pathway coordination platforms, and home care service platforms are accumulating an increasing volume of medical data. They must host, transfer, and archive health documents while complying with regulatory requirements related to the hosting of health data.
In these interconnected digital environments, the chosen solution must integrate easily with existing business software and applications via robust and secure APIs. It must also allow for fine-grained partitioning of spaces in order to distinguish between access for patients, healthcare professionals, coordinators, and partners. NetExplorer HDS integrates with healthcare platform workflows thanks to its technical integration capabilities and ready-to-use web interfaces.
Regulatory bodies, mutual insurance companies, and medical-social organizations: mastering data governance on a sovereign cloud
Regional health agencies, health insurance organizations, and mutual insurance companies collect and process health data as part of their support, monitoring, or coordination activities. They bear particular legal responsibility in the event of security breaches or non-compliance.
Beyond HDS certification, NetExplorer responds to these stakeholders with a sovereign health data hosting solution, guaranteeing that data is stored in France and protected from extraterritorial legislation. They also need clear contractual commitments on service availability, security, and confidentiality of the information processed.
human values,
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The NetExplorer HDS option complements our existing solutions by providing an essential layer of compliance for healthcare industry players.
An option dedicated to healthcare data compliance that complements our solutions
NetExplorer HDS is not a standalone option, but a complementary option to our two solutions, NetExplorer Workspace and NetExplorer Share.
They already guarantee a high level of security for file sharing and collaboration, thanks to features such as encryption, granular rights management, and access tracking.
However, when shared or collaborated files contain personal health data, French law imposes specific hosting conditions. It is in this context that the NetExplorer HDS option comes into its own.
It allows you to activate HDS-certified, dedicated hosting that complies with the requirements of the French Digital Health Agency (ANS), without changing the way you work on a daily basis.
Whether you use NetExplorer Share to send sensitive documents or NetExplorer Workspace to collaborate on medical files with multiple users, you benefit from the same seamless experience, in an environment that is now certified for healthcare data management.
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What does the NetExplorer HDS option include?
The NetExplorer HDS option includes everything you need to comply with the HDS standard. It includes:
- A HDS-certified environment for secure storage and sharing of health data
- File encryption with a key dedicated to your organization
- Complete traceability of user actions (views, downloads, modifications)
- Sovereign hosting, exclusively in France, in Tier 3+ or Tier 4 certified data centers
This option ensures that your medical documents or patient records are hosted in a framework that strictly complies with the requirements of the French Digital Health Agency (Agence du Numérique en Santé).
An HDS contract will be signed between NetExplorer and your company so that you can assert your rights as a Health Data Host, and we undertake to provide you with our Security and Quality Assurance Policy.
How do I activate the HDS option on my NetExplorer account?
The NetExplorer HDS option can be activated upon request by contacting your NetExplorer sales or technical representative. It requires the implementation of a dedicated HDS infrastructure, with a specific configuration process to ensure full compliance.
Once activated, the option is transparent to end users: you retain the same interface and the same features, with the assurance that your files are now being processed in a certified environment.
Is the HDS option compatible with all NetExplorer features?
Yes, the HDS option is fully compatible with all key NetExplorer features, whether NetExplorer Share (secure sharing) or NetExplorer Workspace (online collaboration). In particular, you can continue to use:
- Secure sharing and storage links (with confirmation of receipt, password, validity period, etc.)
- Real-time document co-editing
- Comments, annotations, versioning
- Synchronizing files on workstations
- Access via the mobile app
No loss of functionality: you benefit from a smooth, modern work platform that meets the security requirements of the healthcare sector. The platform administrator is free to include stricter rules: restrict access or not, set the duration of your sharing links, manage feature permissions, etc.
Where are my health data stored with NetExplorer HDS?
All data processed via the NetExplorer HDS option is hosted exclusively in France, in HDS-certified data centers that comply with Tier 3+ or Tier 4 standards. This means that your files are stored:
- In a physically secure environment 24 hours a day
- With restricted and controlled access to infrastructure
- Outside of any extraterritorial legislation, such as the Cloud Act
You therefore benefit from a sovereign solution that complies with the GDPR and the security policies of French healthcare institutions.
Can I access HDS data from the NetExplorer mobile application?
Yes, the NetExplorer mobile app is compatible with the HDS option. You can access, view, share, or annotate your health files directly from your smartphone or tablet, in strict compliance with the access rights defined in your environment and by your administrator.
This allows mobile healthcare professionals (home care providers, on-call doctors, care coordinators) to stay connected to their sensitive documents, securely and in compliance with regulations.
