The future of our hospitals “starts here and now, from each of us who expect to be taken care of, even before being cured. Hospitals have not always been just places of desirable healing, of treating illnesses, but they were born as places of welcome and hospitality for travelers and pilgrims. With the advancement of technology and science they have become paths, spaces, perspectives of care and care”, and in this “an important role is played by digitalisation and ‘artificial intelligence”. This is how Paolo Petralia, deputy vice-president of Fiaso and general director of ASL 4 Liguria, this morning in Rome, described the evolution of hospital care at the national conference of the Italian Association of Clinical Engineers (AIIC) underway in the capital until Saturday.
It is “a hospital model that increasingly goes towards the territory – continues Petralia – and a territory that goes towards the hospital in a logic of circularity and not of exclusivity”, which goes beyond the concept of “hospital-territory integration We need to talk about a path for people, of a unitary care that goes from the hospital to the intermediate care setting and to the home, in a logic of continuity of assistance and care”. In addition to being a “beautiful” place, in the hospital of the future “one is not forced to share a room with other people and, thanks to technology”, there will be “the virtualisation of beds – explains the expert – and not it will be more necessary to have to sleep in hospital to be treated” because, with the sharing of data, “assistance will be provided when needed, at home”. At a technological level, “artificial intelligence will be able to support and support operators, but also patients in the experience of staying in hospital to obtain answers that are advanced from the point of view of clinical content, but also sustainable and pleasant from the point of view of the way in which they are provided”.
Faced with an often obsolete hospital building stock, “we can imagine, over time, being able” to work to transform current buildings into “adequate buildings in terms of structure – concludes Petralia – which save energy, which are green, automated, efficient from the point of view of the routes, but also of the movements, in a logic that from the monobloc returns to small pavilions, surrounded by greenery, capable of being flexible in their use, as the pandemic has taught us”.
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