What Engineering and Novartis will do to digitize healthcare
A three-year agreement has been signed between Engineering and Novartis to achieve the objectives indicated by the NRP in the field of digital health. All the details
Engineering, a company specialized in the digitization of processes , and Novartis, a Swiss multinational that operates in the pharmaceutical sector and in medical scientific research, have signed a three-year agreement that aims to develop innovative projects and solutions in support of the Regions and the National Health Service (NHS) to achieve the objectives indicated by the NRP in the field of digital health.
The focus of the partnership will be on predictive and proximity medicine, telemedicine at the service of home care, reduction of waiting lists and optimization of operational models among the main areas of intervention of the joint table "PNRR and connected health".
THE PARTNERSHIP
In fact, the digital transition of Italian healthcare passes through cutting-edge technologies in care services, in patient assistance and in the management of healthcare facilities, an area in which both companies have a long experience and a virtuous path of consolidated collaborations.
For the first time in Italy, two excellences in the IT and pharmaceutical sector, united by a strong vocation for investment in research and a continuous focus on innovation, are starting a partnership aimed at health institutions, medical professions and patient associations, to respond in an ecosystemic way to the challenges of “Mission 6” of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) dedicated to the protection of health, with a particular focus on the Regions and health systems at the territorial level.
THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE TRANSITION
"The support of digital technologies is a decisive and indispensable factor for an evolution of healthcare that meets the needs of citizens, and to allow scientific medical innovation to express its full value", declared Valentino Confalone , Country President and Novartis CEO in Italy. "The partnership we are inaugurating today will allow Novartis to make its commitment alongside the Italian healthcare institutions even more effective, helping to translate the great vision of PNRR into reality and to build healthcare that is closer to patients and able to face challenges. of public health ".
DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS FOR THE WELL-BEING OF PEOPLE
“Today Healthcare is the outpost of innovation, where cutting-edge technologies make it possible to exploit the power of data to give life to digital ecosystems oriented to the care and well-being of people – said Maximo Ibarra , CEO of Engineering -. Engineering has gained an important role in collaboration with the Regions in the digitalization of healthcare for the benefit of patients and the economic sustainability of the healthcare system. The agreement signed with Novartis will allow us to design even more targeted digital transformation processes and solutions that, while also guaranteeing the safety of health data and respect for privacy, will improve the quality and timeliness of care paths, so as to generate well-being. widespread and inclusive for the country ".
PARTNERSHIP IN PNRR
The three-year partnership provides for the commitment of Engineering and Novartis in the joint work table "PNRR and connected health", which will leverage on diversified skills, relating to those areas that play a particularly critical and priority role in within the PNRR and that can play a leading role in building the healthcare of the future.
In particular, the areas of collaboration concern the experimentation of data-driven models in the field of: predictive and proximity medicine, telemedicine at the service of home care, optimization of in-hospital operating models for the benefit, for example, of the reduction of lists waiting.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/cosa-faranno-engineering-e-novartis-per-digitalizzare-la-sanita/ on Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:17:27 +0000.