Recent reports are unfortunately highlighting an increasing number of issues resulting from the lack of monitoring of COVID patients, even within protected facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes. The pandemic emergency that these facilities must confront is unprecedented, but the shortage of staff and the lack of implementation of tools that facilitate healthcare workers’ tasks is a structural problem within the otherwise excellent Italian healthcare system.
It is evident that it is not feasible to monitor everything, and it is neither realistic nor sustainable to consider mass hiring, which would require months merely to complete the selection processes.
How can the Italian healthcare system face such a challenging period without becoming exhausted and further impoverished? History teaches us that painful periods of crisis have often also been times of accelerated modernization processes, and solutions adopted during emergencies have proven to be effective facilitators even after the emergency has passed.
The digitization of systems, their efficiency improvement, and the consequent reduction in management costs are essential needs for modernizing the complex Italian healthcare system and individual hospitals. The pandemic crisis should therefore also be seen as an opportunity to equip our hospitals and care facilities with tools that can help manage not only the emergency but also the hoped-for return to normalcy, utilizing modern, efficient, and flexible tools that will enable our hospitals to make the necessary leap forward towards modernization, which is crucial for enhancing the efficiency of these facilities.
In this challenging time, the most striking example of system implementation in healthcare activities is certainly the use of ACTIVE MONITORING SYSTEMS FOR COVID PATIENTS WITHIN INTENSIVE AND SUB-INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, which are unfortunately becoming increasingly congested.
For those who are fortunately in non-critical situations, as well as for the staff, TRACKING OF PATIENT MOVEMENTS is also an essential support for proper management of traceability and the reconstruction of possible accidental contact situations, as well as a fundamental element of effective technological containment.
