From a like other ensae the two men will see soon their paths diverge

Economist-Statistician on the day, intellectual devouring the works of Toynbee and Braudel night: Yvon Merlière will be able to meet these two facets of his personality in the Crédoc which he has, at the age of fifty-three to provide the Directorate-General. Its two masters suggests, the defector from the Caisse nationale de travailleurs salariés (CNAMTS) health insurance is inexhaustible. The British historian, he learned the weight of the attitudes in the evolution of a people and a civilization; the specialist of the Mediterranean at the time of Philip II, the need to enter any study of human behaviour in the long term. Two lessons this figures human Petri dish history wants to keep foremost in mind when making orders for the body measurement and assessment of the conditions of life created in 1954, although he is aware that it is for its technical expertise, more than for his readings, that he was chosen for the torch from the hands of Robert Rochefortits very media European MP became predecessor under the colours of the Modem.

It is this same Robert Rochefort, then statistics of same ce même Robert Rochefort services, des des statistiques statistiques Robert Rochefort, alors directeur Director put the foot in the Stirrup in 1982 by the recruiting as head of the Department of the environment. From a like other ensae, the two men will see soon their paths diverge. While Robert Rochefort will fly quickly to other heavens - he embodied the Crédoc since 1987! -, Yvon Merlière remain faithful to the Fund for health insurance until this year, for it is true a long parenthesis in the 1990s to the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux in Paris (AP - HP).

A flat work

More than elsewhere that a parenthesis, this detour of nine years by the public institution in charge of 39 hospitals of Paris and its close suburbs was a decisive step, because this is that the statistician want take for the first time the need for more qualitative than quantitative data. Recruited as Director of management control, it will apply first to put in place an analytical accounting fine enough to allow its successive Directors, and including Alain Cordier who did come, breakdown of resources between the different institutions informed. Extension of this work of discount flat and analysis which will result in a book - "The control of the hospital management," with a professor at the ESCP and published by Masson in 1997-, the "Project 2000", developed in the second half of the 1990s, fulfilled this desire to dispose of "strategic edge tables" to which to refer in all areas, nosocomial diseases to the quality of the plateaux-repas.

In 1999, Gilles Johanet, Yvon Merlière already had as a patron to the Fund in the 1980s, recalled at his side to build an information system unique common to seventeen Medicare plans and enable especially of "chaining" data relating to the hospital and those specific to medicine of city. This site it will all be five years, since the preparatory drawings up to the implementation of the first databases. Johanet successor, Frédéric Van Roekeghem will build on this unique system to implement the major reform of 2004 on the attending physician and the lump sum allowance of 1 euro. As Yvon Merlière, promoted to number two management strategy, studies and statistics, to draw a personal philosophy: "the red thread of my career, it is the question of whether if you can change the behaviour of individuals.". I believe that it is possible providing that appropriate and accepted by all measurement indicators.