Clinika at Ist National AiSDeT conference: the value of digital health for new healthcare service provision logics.

“Healthcare equity and universality […] requires the support of digital and telemedicine platforms, which are the only ones that can follow citizens throughout their journey, […] and promote sharing of clinical data and care decisions among all the specialists and operators involved”.

This statement was made by Ottavio Di Cillo, chairman of AiSDeT (Italian Digital healthcare and telemedicine association) during the 1st National AiSDeT conference: ‘EQUITY AND UNIVERSALITY OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: DIGITAL HEALTH AND TELEMEDICINE’.

Organized in Bari with the collaboration of the Digital Innovation in Healthcare Observatory, the conference closed on 28 September 2018.

The idea was to offer an opportunity for exchange among healthcare professionals and administrators that have long been involved in the development of digital environments for healthcare to improve governance and care processes. To this end, the conference was designed to:

1. Explore the role of digital healthcare and telemedicine as strategic tools to ensure appropriateness of the care journey.
2. Propose ideas and actions aimed at seamlessly integrating this digital revolution with the care process, in a way that will promote continuous sharing and transfer of information and data.

Maps has given its contribution with the Clinika solution: the vast national network of digital healthcare innovation professionals attending the Convention included Fabrizio Selmi, Healthcare ICT Market Specialist with IG Consulting, and a user of the Clinika product, ULSS 9 Scaligera (Local Health Service – Verona) with Andrea Oliani.

On September 28th, during the session devoted to the increasingly synergic Interaction between digital systems and models for prescription appropriateness and identification of health and care needs, the Healthcare ICT Market Specialist from IG Consulting introduced the powerful semantic software Clinika and its ability to monitor compliance with prescription appropriateness protocols.

Fabrizio Selmi described Clinika’s revolutionary ability to read different text documents and turn them into structured information that enables monitoring, evaluation and strategic-operational support to

1. identify and manage prescription excesses in healthcare facilities,
2. reduce costs and improve clinical governance efficiency.

What better proof of efficiency can there be than the case history of an establishment that has chosen the Clinika system to improve its healthcare services?

Next was the report from Andrea Oliani, Director of IT Systems of ULSS9 Scaligera (Local Health Service – Verona).

A lot of ground has been covered by the Verona Local Health Service since 2015, when it was decided to look for an IT system that would enable interaction with the facility’s prescribing physicians, to give them feedback on prescription appropriateness, to the selection and adoption of Clinika, which proved immediately effective and reliable.

After the initial approval, in 2016, of 33 waiting list protocols as instruments for improving prescription appropriateness, to this day

1. the volume of prescriptions analyzed for the waiting list protocols, is approximately 12,000;
2. the total volume of prescriptions processed each month is approximately 450,000;
3. the volume of prescriptions analyzed for the waiting list protocols, is approximately 12,000;
4. 360 reports are produced automatically every month.

(*) data still related to the former ULSS 20 (Local Health Service – Verona) before it became ULSS 9 Scaligera.

The next stage will involve extending the monitoring of prescription appropriateness to all the GPs (approximately 700) in the ULSS 9 district.

“Only when integrated and interoperable – added Di Cillo – can digital environments guarantee the fine tuning of new procedures and new healthcare engineering models”.

This has become more urgent than ever for the Italian Health Service, in order to guarantee effectiveness and innovation in healthcare .

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