“The hospital of the future will have to be flexible, modular – also because, Covid has taught us, a rapid reconfiguration of beds may be necessary – very digital, with artificial intelligence, without departments, with few professionals” supported in the best possible way, “so that the work that is now done by many in the future will be done by a few, and welcoming”, with “lots of greenery”. This was said by Giovanni Guizzetti, clinical engineer and socio-health director of Asst Ovest Milanese, speaking this morning at the session dedicated to the hospital of the future, during the national conference of the Italian Association of Clinical Engineers (AIIC), in Rome until 18 May.
“To understand what the future of the hospital could be – continues Guizzetti – we must understand what the future of all healthcare services for citizens will be and, therefore, also how we will arrive at the transformation of home healthcare and territorial healthcare. The hospital the future should be a hospital where, for example, the chronic patient does not access, except in very rare cases”. Among the most important innovations, the fact stands out that there will not be a differentiation between one department and another, but based on the intensity of care. And we will need more contact with nature, therefore green areas, because “this, as has been widely demonstrated, also contributes to the greater well-being of the patient”. In the hospital of the future “there will be many single rooms”, at least half of the beds, “not only for greater patient comfort – Guizzetti specifies – but also because this allows for better control of hospital infections. Above all it will be a very digital, in which artificial intelligence applications will certainly support the entire diagnosis and treatment process. A hospital without beds was even mentioned, because the hospital becomes the concentrator of home healthcare, of patients who are monitored in their home. and managed centrally by a structure in which multidisciplinary professionals manage the patient who is, however, at home”.
The transformation “is actually already underway – warns the expert – We are not realizing it, but there are already examples in the world. In Italy we have many, too many small hospitals, which cost a lot of money to manage and do not allow hospitals more advanced to be adequately supported. Of course, the need to be close to the hospital remains, but if we consider “the technological evolution and the increase” of transport with autonomous vehicles”, it is easy to understand that “even ‘access to the place of treatment, even independently’, will be a reality.
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