Within the course "ICT for Health Care", on December 12th, 2018 from 12.30 to 14.00 in room L.26.04, Giovanni Delgrossi, Chief Information Officer at ASST Vimercate, will give a seminar titled: "The role of Information and Communication Technology in complex Healthcare Organizations – Vimercate Hospital case", whose summary follows here below.

ASST Vimercate is a Hospital Trust composed by four different Hospital Structures located in the Lombardy Region, close to Milan. The trust is one of the most digitalized realities in Northern Italy.
The idea of setting up a fully "Digital Hospital", which was born some years ago, has been realized through the progressive implementation of some major digitization projects, together with the continuous adoption of the most innovative information technologies. The main goal among the ones accomplished so far is the complete adoption of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). Today, the fully digital EMR allows medical staff at Vimercate, Desio, Carate, Seregno and Giussano Hospitals to manage and share in real time more than 60,000 hospital admissions per year.
This seminar will give an overview of the main steps of the whole Hospital digitization project. It will also cover the Information and Communication Technologies adopted, the Information System Architecture implemented and the results achieved, in terms of software deployment and hospital change management. Business and Service Continuity issues and their adopted solutions will also be presented, together with data security aspects and an outline of the technologies and architectures used to guarantee the full legal validity of the electronically managed clinical data.
The full adoption of EMR is part of the digital transformation in a healthcare organization and opens the opportunity to introduce Clinical Decision Support technologies as well as Big Data Analytics Architectures with Machine Learning algorithms to implement predictive and prescriptive analysis. Vimercate Hospital approach will be presented.