2023-10-10 16:36:41
by Health Editorial Staff
The Sm@rtScreening project wins the fifth edition of the eHealth4all Award for the best “made in Italy” contribution to prevention with digital tools
It makes cancer screening more accessible to citizens, even when the letter to sign up has not been delivered. It is the substantial motivation that led the Sm@rtScreening project financed by the Puglia Region to conquer the Premio eHealth4all
for the best “made in Italy” contribution to prevention with digital tools. Proclamation and award ceremony took place in Milan in an event organized by ClubTi Milano, CDTI Roma, Assintel and Aica.
The characteristics of the winning project
Sm@rtScreening allows citizens to easily book appointments for the prevention of cervical, colorectal and breast cancer. Thanks to an information platform that supports multiple communication channels (regional portal, social media, messaging) and multiple log-in solutions (from SPID to QR Code), approximately 85 thousand subjects in the observation period (one year) of the project they benefited from screening because they followed the information content on the regional web portal and made contact even if they had not received the paper letter at home. In this way, 665 thousand citizens of “critical” age who would not otherwise have been able to join were reached.
Contacts for subsequent confirmation of appointments avoided approximately 104,700 last-minute cancellations. Considering an average of 50 euros per visit, the overall saving was 5.23 million euros, which the Regional Health Service would otherwise have spent due to the booked but empty clinic and the “downtime” of operators and machines. Given certain savings, the public administration sees its credibility grow among residents to whom it offers multi-channel responses and simplifies contacts. Next steps: on-call hepatitis C screening, vaccination recalls for children and adults, real-time communication of infectious diseases.
The general practitioners’ project
The Scientific Committee made up of experts in economics, medicine, IT, engineering, law and media, awarded in particular the originality of the IT solution used, the added value for patients involved in the prevention of tumors, and the use of new generation. The MMG2 and Genome Access projects follow almost equally. The first, as the name suggests, concerns general practitioners: an “elderly” category and in demographic decline: 38 thousand scrubs today are supported by 60 million Italians who have time management problems. Created in the Marche region but now used nationally by 1,400 doctors, the platform was created for booking office visits, but the creators also set themselves the goal of reducing the channels through which patients communicate from 4 or 5 to one with the caregivers.
The family doctor would waste on average 90 minutes a day just to make up for 40-50 calls via email, messaging, social media. For many who, after Covid, visited only by appointment and several days apart, the recovery of time to dedicate to visits offered the chance to reopen the waiting rooms to patients who show up. The application also allows you to quickly find the substitute doctor within the province. In addition to sending “mass communications”: with one click the doctor can send messages to all patients regarding changes to clinic hours, substitutions, availability for vaccines, etc.
And the one about genetic testing
Genome Access
, created by the Kaleidos cooperative, is a digital consultancy project aimed at facilitating access to genetic tests with a specific application for the interaction between doctor and patient. The latter can benefit from televisits, teleconsultations, decision-making support for diagnosis, collection of medical history data and intelligent interaction systems for medical genetic information. In the experimental phase, mutation identification services were offered to patients with disabling neuromuscular diseases since childhood, and recruitment for data collection of 100 patients with epidermolysis bullosa is underway. Also noteworthy is the participation in an application project for the study of orphan diseases and the development of an algorithm for a predictive model on the development of cardiovascular diseases.
October 10, 2023 (modified October 10, 2023 | 4:36 pm)
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