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SinapticaMED has taken part at the Italian Association against Leukaemia-Lymphoma and Myeloma (AIL) National Conference, that took place last November 21st and approached “Home assistance in the field of Hematology: the third millennium challenge”. The talk given by the engineer Marco Capoferri, Research and Development Director of Sinaptica IT focused on the interaction between the development of information technologies and the new approaches to in-home assistance in Hematology.
The congress, which was held in an outstanding Roman conference hall (“Spazio Novecento”), aimed at “making the Public Health System more aware of social implications and economic savings resulting from a new home assistance organization, helping citizens in a straightforward way and avoiding useless hospital admissions”.
A challenge that has been met by the eHealth system used by SinapticaMED in the RomaAil ASSDOM project, thanks to which it is possible to assist patients affected by hematological malignancies directly at their home.
A data transmission tool that achieves new subject care patterns focused on patients themselves and on their quality of life, making, in the healthcare environment as well, the paradigm of Efficiency, Efficacy and Economical1 services a truth. An affordable system, thanks to the fact that hospitalization is no longer needed, that, according to what came to light during the Conference can make a significant difference on the highly expensive costs of hematological home healthcare services.
ASSDOM, an Italian acronym which stands for ASSistenza DOMiciliare (in-home assistance), is an initiative that has been promoted by the RomAil Hematological Home Assistance Hospital “Giuseppe Papa” located at the Roman Hospitals “S. Eugenio” and “Policlinico Umberto I”.
The cornerstone of the information technology implemented in the project is ClinicOnline®, a digital case history accessible via web no matter where we are. An innovation solution that puts together pervasiveness and accessibility with maximum sensitive data treatment security.
This system, designed by SinapticaMED, is conceived to get medical and paramedical personnel at patients’ home address, with a really small portable computer, so as to connect themselves via web to the digital case history using any web browser available and avoiding to install any dedicated software. This way, they are able to have access to patients’ data in real time and to update them. Transferred data are encrypted with the same methodology that is actually used in bank transfers, and they undergo through a real time threefold control, the 3A REALTIME2 modality (Authentication, Authorization, Access).
A perfect example of how an innovative healthcare pattern focused on patients’ quality of life can see the light thanks to the interaction of appropriate and secure technological solutions. Also the IT support that is provided to in-home care operators, the Asus Eee PC 701, follows the same global policy in terms of resources innovation and inexpensiveness. An essential computer even if completely suitable to the home assistance activities and light in what weight and cost concerns, as it is leased without charge by the telephone company provider together with a flat Internet connection access.
“We do not need sophisticated technological devices to be able to use a leading edge system” stated the engineer Capoferri during the meeting. “A really edge system today -he added- is a system fine-tuned to be highly compatible with the surrounding world. Let us think about Google. A system which is “simple but not simpler” as Einstein would once state. This is our job and our company vision: to supply systems with maximum functionality at a minimum cost, enhancing what is already available. Solutions that may provide, as in this case, the best working conditions, not only counting on what the system needs to know how to do, but with already available resources at the customers site as well; always hoping that those who will take most profit of it all will be patients themselves.”
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