Empowering professionals is an indispensable tool for ensuring the delivery of effective and safe care. The pillars of an efficient system must certainly include: data reliability, risk mapping, and the safety of patients and operators. A high degree of digitization, especially in management processes, the use of lean solutions, and the increase in the resilience and responsiveness of structures must become the norm, not the exception.
The Italian plan for Next Generation EU seems to be struggling, with the deadline for submission to the European Commission set for April 30. The plan aims to “digitalize all hospital clinical and care processes at level II DEA facilities, with particular focus on operating room systems, Laboratory Information Systems, MRI, pharmacy services, emergency rooms, acceptance/discharge/transfer systems, medication prescribing and administration, imaging diagnostics, repositories, and order entry.” For the ‘Health’ sector, €15.63 billion is allocated (€12.65 billion for new projects). Pragmatism, speed, and unity: let’s prioritize the future of our children and our patients above all else and seize this opportunity!
The Ministry of Health’s guidelines for the next three years appear well-directed and well-calibrated: enhancing professionals, eHealth, and big data. If the objectives are achieved and systematically implemented, it will represent a significant step forward for the Italian healthcare system in terms of the quality of services provided.
Covid, hospitals, healthcare, resilience during the pandemic, and exiting the acute phase. The upcoming challenges for healthcare are already pressing even before we have fully emerged from the emergency.
We should expect an increase in hospitalizations due to missed prevention or worsening of existing conditions. This is the residual impact of Covid that we must not let overwhelm us, and it is important to start thinking now about a healthcare system capable of improving performance.
Among the most frequent issues, especially in high-risk departments prone to injuries due to risky behaviors of frail patients or those in intensive care, is the constant monitoring of hospitalized individuals. Nursing staff alone cannot dedicate exclusive attention to a few patients, particularly during a pandemic, and must provide necessary assistance to the entire ward. In these situations, active patient safety services ensure widespread and active monitoring of patients through cameras installed in the rooms of “at-risk” patients, allowing immediate monitoring in case of abnormal movements (e.g., harmful movements, getting out of bed without assistance, falls, leaving the room) and consequent alerts, which immediately notify the nearest healthcare provider. This is the TapMyLife Risk Prevention system.
With TapMyLife’s Hospital Performance Control Center, the complex activities of a hospital are summarized in a dashboard that enables decision-making based on reliable data viewed historically or in real-time, allowing for the management of potential critical or emergency situations.
The various modules of the solution allow for separate purchases and investments by individual departments, which, thanks to the TapMyLife ecosystem, converge in a pyramidal form towards the Hospital Management Intelligence Service platform.
Reception is an essential phase in the process of humanizing hospital facilities. This has been widely recognized during periods of “normal” hospital activity. However, during times of organizational and management stress, the benefits of using positioning and indoor navigation technologies become crucial, emerging as foundational elements in the planning of complex hospital structures.
Users approaching the facility during this period are usually in a heightened state of anxiety and are therefore concerned with finding their way to their intended destination as quickly as possible. Thus, a true indoor navigator is essential to keep hospital staff focused, productive, and free from interruptions.
Italian healthcare is distinguished by medical excellence and the preparation of its personnel. However, if we examine the 2020 Newsweek rankings, we see that only the Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda appears among the top 50 hospitals in the world. European funds are on their way, but what approach should we adopt to ensure these resources are used effectively and create added value? Once again, the theme of eHealth emerges strongly.
The issue of effectively and promptly monitoring the actual temperatures inside hospital refrigerators was a concern well before the COVID experience, but it now seems even more pressing. In reality, what is often lacking is not the monitoring of individual refrigerators, but a real-time monitoring system that alerts any malfunctions at a local or systemic level. This system should determine when, for how long, and with what intensity an adverse event occurred. To address this problem, TAPMYLIFE has developed a LIVE REFRIGERATOR TEMPERATURE MONITORING PLATFORM WITH TRACKED AND MANAGED ALARMS.
TapMyLife’s E-Health solutions have a significant and quantifiable impact on process efficiency and the active prevention of risks to which patients and operators may be exposed. They automatically, securely, and reliably track the execution of intervention and care operations with respect to compliance with accreditation processes.
