Digital Innovation in Healthcare Award 2024: the Tuscany South East Local Health Authority in Milan will receive it from the Polytechnic of Milan and Osservatori.net Digital Innovation. The recognition, which went to the Metaverso project carried out in the Community House of Abbadia San Salvatore, is aimed “at companies that have shown the ability to use digital technologies as a lever for innovation and improvement”. The award was presented to Maria Giovanna D’Amato of the Innovation and Development Departmental Area of the South East Tuscany Local Health Authority during the conference “Digital healthcare: transforming the present for a sustainable future”.
The project that involved the Community House of Abbadia San Salvatore involves the use of virtual reality environments through which the patient will be able to see himself inside the virtual office of his family doctor to request, for example, a prescription or have analyzes viewed or renew a treatment plan. The project includes several distinct project lines: the creation of the digital twin of the Community House, the creation of an “intelligent assistant” for the general practitioner, the virtual connection with other local professionals such as the psychologist, the social worker, the community nurses and physiotherapists, remote virtual connection with a peripheral office, the application of Virtual Room Objects for Adapted Physical Activity and for self-management of health in chronic diseases.
“We are very satisfied that our project has received such important recognition,” he explains Maria Giovanna D’Amato, director of the Innovation and Development departmental area of the South East Tuscany Local Health Authority –. The credit goes to the entire team of the Community House of Abbadia San Salvatore who is working constantly to make it possible. Using digital tools to bring the doctor-patient relationship closer is an opportunity that we cannot miss. For this reason, the experimentation of these types of pioneering projects in the healthcare sector which can open up new horizons is welcome.”
