Telemedicine "is increasingly representing a fundamental support for strengthening home care, for managing chronic conditions and for reducing inequalities. Thanks to telemedicine services, for example, patients will not have to move from their home, being able to count on continues. Furthermore, the Portal for the diffusion of telemedicine will soon be active, a channel with which we want to inform citizens and let them know what telemedicine services are, how they work, what impact they have on assistance".
This was underlined by the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, who spoke at the conference 'Technology and research for the healthcare of tomorrow'.
What also opens up "interesting prospects for modernization - continued Schillaci - is the new electronic health record, which certainly represents a step forward in the digitalisation of health data, and I then think of the speed with which artificial intelligence is establishing itself in many sectors , starting with healthcare".
Artificial Intelligence, he specified, "can expand the possibility of treatment in many diseases, it can help doctors make more precise diagnoses, it can impact global health. And it leads to increasingly personalized medicine. This is a challenge that we face involves everyone and is a central theme in the G7 Italian Presidency", but "obviously artificial intelligence should not be considered a substitute for the man who must govern it, with ethics and responsibility".
The minister also underlined how "research and technology are also crucial in the oncology field, favoring a medical approach increasingly oriented towards personalized treatments. Identifying the most appropriate therapy for the individual patient is the aim of precision oncology, one of main areas of innovation in the fight against cancer: let's not forget that if today in Italy 60% of patients are alive five years after diagnosis of cancer and one million people can be considered cured it is thanks to recent progress in the field of research in care and assistance".
As regards resources, he concluded, "there is the commitment of the Ministry of Health with the calls for targeted research and the investments envisaged by the Pnrr for the strengthening of research, innovation and digitalisation of the national health service".
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