2021 promises to be a turning point in the fight against the pandemic that has disrupted the world with over one and a half million deaths and has severely tested the resilience of healthcare systems that were largely unprepared for such a massive and catastrophic event.
As we await a real end to the crisis period, we ponder how it might be possible to rethink the healthcare system to make it more efficient and sustainable, while perhaps ensuring a truly extensive network of control capable of active and continuous monitoring of the health status of patients under the care of these facilities.
‘Digital Health’ is likely the protagonist of the necessary acceleration in the modernization process of healthcare. The ongoing pandemic has made even more evident the performance and efficiency improvements in contexts where traditional medicine is integrated with digital health, and the valuable role that Digital Health can play in offering new and effective healthcare management dynamics as well as new forms of communication between doctor and patient.
Innovation is therefore the key driver to ensure citizens have a reliable, modern, and accessible healthcare system where resources are used in the most effective way.
Moreover, it is the healthcare professionals themselves who are calling for the implementation of Digital Health solutions: tools that are easy to use and straightforward from a technological and organizational standpoint, but also extremely rigorous in terms of data reliability and security. Digital technology provides new tools to improve the lives of patients and healthcare workers alike, while also reducing the management costs of the system by eliminating bottlenecks and redundancies.
