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The digital clinical case history ClinicOnline® of Sinaptica IT is being successfully used as a web-based platform in the ASDOM Project at the RomAil Home Hematological Hospital "Giuseppe Papa", allowing more than 100 operators to provide health care assistance on an ongoing basis with a high health and technical content.

Born out of a Pr. Mandelli's insight, a pioneer in the humanization of hematological therapies, the "virtual" hospital Giuseppe Papa embraces a close collaboration between the teams working within two Roman hospitals, S. Eugenio Hospital, coordinated by Dr. Pasquale Niscola, and Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, headed by Dr. Claudio Cartoni. Furthermore, just a few months ago, also the hematology department of the San Giovanni Hospital of Rome, coordinated by Dr. Bartolini, joined them. The objective of the project is that of de-hospitalizing patients with blood illnesses and of moving the healthcare delivered services from traditional structures to patients' homes.

Sinaptica IT has taken up the demanding challenge of offering an integrated software and hardware solution which is immediately available for use and that allows operators to work anywhere. The implemented system allows healthcare professionals to access clinical case histories from patients homes using a notebook, that is, a small portable computer, connected via HSDPA (3G technology).

This solution is based on two different technological features: Sinaptica IT's digital clinical case history ClinicOnline® and light notebooks supplied on lease and equipped with high speed Internet connection.

The infrastructure we have streamlined for the ASDOM Project is paradigmatic of our corporate philosophy. Sinaptica IT solutions are developed to offer maximum compatibility with what is already in place and to provide for a real costs optimization. In this case, the fact that our digital clinical case history ClinicOnline® is compatible with any browser allows us to supply operators with most basic netbooks rather than using expensive and useless personalized hardware, as is often the case in the field of telemedicine, and without needing to implement any specific software. All this translates into huge savings in terms of licenses and assistance.

Furthermore, the use of neutral hardware rather than dedicated programs enables the possibility of combining the activity of the ASDOM Project with any other data access station: either from personal computers at the hospital or in the laboratories, as well as from any other portable devices as laptops, palms or mobile phones with an Internet connection.

The groundbreaking core of the system we have developed for ASDOM is the digital clinical case history ClinicOnline®, accessible via web from anywhere the operator may be. A tool that makes patients' clinical data available in real time to operators who are working out of hospital, which is also able to guarantee the needed highest security standards to treat sensible data: all information being sent are encrypted and undergo a threefold control process.

"The advantage of using a web-based platform to access clinical data is really clear within the ASDOM Project -as explained by the engineer Marco Capoferri, the Research & Development director of Sinaptica IT-. Indeed, patients' data are not only available to operators anywhere, but these data with exactly the same operational interface are also available in real time at the hospital or at any specialist's having a role in the given therapy. For example, if the results of a test become available while the operator is busy visiting patients, thanks to the real time web access they can be consulted without having to go back to hospital. This is what we consider telemedicine, in other words, the use of technological tools to provide a real improvement of clinical homecare in terms of efficiency and efficacy."

Another innovative development is the use of the ClinicOnline® platform for a parallel study on the quality of life of home patients. This is possible thanks to the fact that among the integrated functionalities of the digital clinical case history of Sinaptica IT there is also the possibility of collating clinical data and of exporting data in the XML format.

"The case of the Giuseppe Papa hospital is an example of how Sinaptica IT solutions have the objective of triggering a virtuous circle that puts together patients' quality of life and resources optimization - concludes the engineer Capoferri. From the one hand, patients de-hospitalization entails an economical advantage (according to RomAil data, a patient's day at hospital costs 350 Euro), from the other, our main objective in this collaboration is that of creating a technological infrastructure for the Copernicus revolution, highly supported by RomAil, of a healthcare system having patients and patients' needs at the center. An appropriate homecare within a family context that is made possible thanks to the efficiency, efficacy and economical benefit of our systems, is a reason for being proud that perfectly fits with our corporate philosophy."