Health, Fiumicelli (Dedalus): “5-8% medical specialists make use of televisita”

“In Italy, only 38% of the population has heard of electronic health records, and only 12% are aware of having used it. The use of structured telemedicine services, such as television with the specialist, telerehabilitation and telemonitoring of clinical parameters are used between 5 and 8% of cases, according to a survey by the Politecnico di Milano. 60% of specialist doctors and general practitioners have sufficient basic digital skills, but only 4% have a satisfactory level of professional digital skills “. This was stated by Andrea Fiumicelli, Chief Executive Officer of the Dedalus Group, operator in clinical-health information systems in Europe, opening the proceedings of the conference “Accelerate Digital Health”, an event promoted in Rome in partnership with The G20 Health & development partnership. ” an enormous waste – underlined Fiumicelli commenting on the data of the Polytechnic – we need to accelerate the culture of digitization. Today it is already possible to make personalized data-driven decisions in real time. The technologies and data are there but to use them you need will and dialogue “. Objective of the meeting: to compare national and international experiences, institutions, politics, businesses and the academic world and offer a summary of the path that the country must undertake towards a true digital revolution in the health sector. “The digitization of the socio-health ecosystem – he added – is the key to becoming stronger, as operators in the sector and as citizens. The only way to pursue a sustainability that is social, economic and environmental at the same time. And it is an element of social cohesion because it allows a more equitable and democratic access to a better level of assistance ”. Revolutions need time, but the “digital health revolution can no longer wait” warns Fiumicelli, who adds: “It is our duty, first of all for the good and well-being of patients, to accelerate in this direction by making choices long-term capable of revolutionizing the overall approach to open up to innovations. The PNRR is now. The resources are there, we need to grasp them in a virtuous dialogue between public and private because at stake are not only the health systems (and that would already be enormous) but the well-being of the generations of tomorrow “. Fundamental, for the CEO of the Dedalus group – to recognize the clinical data “as the cornerstone of any intervention; to move towards the establishment of an interoperable, scalable, safe ecosystem that encourages cooperation between all actors, clinical operators and patients “.