Service: Predicting chronic pathologies and post-surgery complications

Responsible organisation: City of Vimercate (Local Government)

In the city of Vimercate, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, the local branch of the public health authority (Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale, ASST) has adopted open source cloud solutions (developed by Almaviva) which use algorithms to predict the beginning of chronic pathologies and post-surgery complications Building on a decade spent digitizing medical records, Vimercate hospital aims to more efficiently manage patients, including by personalizing treatments according to machine learning-powered analytics, thus reducing costs and optimizing logistics, while at the same time improving its “precision medicine” solutions. “This is the first structured usage of AI within a hospital in Italy”, says Head of AI Solutions at Almaviva, Antonio Cer-qua, who also revealed that the objective is to provide his company’s IoT platform, Giotto, “to a national network of hospitals”. According to Cerqua, “many have already shown their interest” (Il Giorno 2019). Representatives from the consulting giant Deloitte also visited the Vimercate hospital specifically because of this project, wrote Giornale di Monza.“AI must not replace physicians”, says Head of Informatics at ASST Vimercate, Giovanni Delgrossi, “but support them, a tool that helps them making better decisions” (Sole 24 Ore 2019)

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
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Start/end date 2019 -
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