Curtain on Cup, visits and examinations booked by family doctors – the morning of Padua

 VENICE. Digital medicine is an expression that may sound pompous, more suited to spot self-celebration that the daily needs of the “common people”. Yet its effects promise to facilitate patients, removing them to exhausting expectations, and to ease the costs of a health plagued by repeated government cuts. We talk about the project “Beyond the Cup” that will offer users the possibility to book directly from the surgery of the family doctor specialist visits and diagnostic tests and laboratory, avoiding to go personally to the offices of the centers unique booking hospital.

 

 The novelty, wanted by the Region, will be tested in December nell’Ulss of Belluno and the Veneto region-wide by 2016. To illustrate the details today at the Fair of innovation and health technology in Vicenza, will be the engineers of Arsenàl.IT consortium headed by manager Claudio Dario: a team of 45 professionals for ten years the digitization of health care in the Veneto, is working from the headquarters of Treviso in 21 Health Authority, consortium members like the two Hospitals.

 

 The starting point – experts say – is the spread of the digital recipe (now covers 89% of the total Italian record) that allows access to the white coats of the assisted electronic health records (sensitive data, medical records, pathologies and therapies in place) and accredits them to the network system. What does it mean? It is the direct access to the Digital Agenda of the hospitals and the options available for visits and tests: “When choosing the patient will not be alone,” says Dario, “but will rely on the evaluation of the doctor who is able to say, for example, if the proposed date is suitable to its therapeutic needs. The goal we work is a health 0 km, more suitable for the city. ” We will see. Innovation is not trivial but appears modeled on the medication group (the UTAP) increasing rapidly but none at all in small towns, which calls for a tune-up during construction.

 

 “The computerization of the health of the Veneto makes the unthinkable reality and simplifies people’s lives,” says the governor Luca Zaia, a proponent of the agreement with GPs that enabled the launch of the project ‘greet with satisfaction the ‘excellent work done by Arsenàl.IT and with equal dismay the incredible choice of the government that has cut and 50% of the funds to computerize the public administration, one of the cornerstones of the spending review. But we will not give the inevitable and “Beyond the Cup” it is one of many demonstrations, because technological progress improves service and lowers costs. ” How much? “Once fully operational”, he tells the commissioner Luca Coletto “guarantee about 10 million a year in savings, which will add to the 19 million that will save some time with the possibility of

download reports directly from computers or smartphones, and 3.3 million of lower costs resulting from the entry to the scheme throughout the digital recipe. The income amounted to 32.3 million a year in savings for the administration and lower costs for our people. ”