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The digital clinical case history ClinicOnline® has allowed to keep on providing oncological medical assistance to the earthquake-displaced patients. The web-based Sinaptica IT service has been successfully implemented on Apple iPhones supplied to the operators of the no-profit organization “L'Aquila per la Vita” (“L'Aquila for Life”).
Sinaptica IT and the no-profit organization “L'Aquila per la Vita” have tuned and been using, since may 2009, an innovative telemedicine service that enhances home healthcare assistance to cancer patients from L'Aquila and surrounding areas. This collaboration was born already before the earthquake hit the area, with the goal of improving cancer patients’ quality of life and home healthcare assistance, but after the natural disaster hit the Abruzzo, it has become the organization's volunteer physicians most valuable resource to guarantee a mobile medical assistance to displaced people that had to leave their houses, through an internet connection via GSM-UMTS network.
Sinaptica IT has put its own IT systems at the organization's disposal for this particular project and, more precisely, the digital clinical case history ClinicOnline®, while the organization “L'Aquila per la Vita” has been responsible of final service supply, dealing with all logistical details and supplying dedicated health personnel.
Thanks to the digital clinical case history ClinicOnline®, physicians have been able to remotely check patients’ clinical data through internet by means of iPhones and portable PCs with an internet connection, even being far away from hospital.
With ClinicOnline®, the Sinaptica IT web-based clinical case history, operators can, in real time, register any therapy or patients' conditions changes, share clinical case histories with other specialists in a secure way and even send a therapy reminder to patients or to their care givers via e-mail or SMS. Thus, with ClinicOnline®, health services or control examinations can still be supplied at the temporary patients' address, enhancing the coordination of different health structures still active in the area and field professionals displaced throughout the national territory.
Health operators from the organization “L'Aquila per la Vita” have found the combination of both, the digital clinical case history ClinicOnline® and the Apple iPhone smartphone, really practical. By means of an internet connection, secure and coded patients' data have always been available on a really small multiple feature device, perfect on particularly difficult situations, as the one after an earthquake, guaranteeing, even in critical conditions, a continuous healthcare assistance to patients.
“To our company, it is extremely important – stated Marco Capoferri, Sinaptica IT Research & Development Director- to have checked that our solutions are able to supply a functional platform to healthcare assistance even when physical infrastructures and links cannot guarantee any service. We have indeed confirmed the present value of a solution tuned to work through internet, on any internet connected device, without any installation needed.”
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