Two years of change which, through the pandemic, have seen the emergence of new priorities and new models of health care: an unforeseen path that of the two-year work of the Neurology management Lab (NeuroMLab), which closed today at the SDA Bocconi Campus in Milan. The project, the result of the partnership between Biogen and SDA Bocconi School of Management and with the aegis of the Italian Society of Neurology (Sin), is a real laboratory in continuous evolution – reports a note – which involves the main players in the health system . Neurologists, pharmacists, nurses and directors of health facilities in these two years have had the opportunity to confront and work together on different lines of research, bringing out points of view, needs and working methods to meet the health challenges of tomorrow.
Divided into four research areas, the works were concentrated on key issues for the transformation of the neurological care system for chronic diseases with high complexity and large numbers. The analysis of the network of local services for Alzheimer’s disease, female leadership in the neurological field, the synergy of the neurology healthcare resource system and the use of digital technology were the issues addressed by the multidisciplinary teams.
“The neurological field includes chronic and highly complex patients and, although the pandemic we are experiencing has created enormous difficulties, it has also been the spur to activate a different way to deliver clinical services, also for the benefit of patients, in a optics of greater proximity and with an increasingly decisive role of digital technology “, he declares Gioacchino Tedeschi, director of the Neurological and Neurophysiopathology Clinic, Aou Luigi Vanvitelli of Naples and past president of Sin. “The two years of work that has just ended – he added – has been an active witness to the changes triggered by the pandemic, as well as an opportunity to reflect and work on management and organizational priorities and needs, with a view to the evolution of the neurological care system and development of new treatment paradigms that are capable of acknowledge and anticipate ongoing scientific developments and respond to the new needs of doctors and patients“.
A change of pace: this is the message that emerges from the interventions held today by the protagonists of this work path, which call for an evolution of the neurological care system for make the territorial assistance network more organized in terms of cohesion and collaboration between centers and professionals in the area, aimed at guaranteeing the patient proximity and quality of care. The analyzes carried out within the 4 lines of research and the 2 workshops that involved the participants highlighted the profound complexity of the neurological care system, crossed by important technological, diagnostic and therapeutic innovations, accelerated by the pandemic.
To respond to this complexity – the note continues – it has emerged the need to find integrated answers to the needs of care, through the synergy between all the health resources involved, as he comments Valeria Tozzi, Associate Professor of Practice of Government Health and Not for Profit Division at SDA Bocconi School of Management. Technological innovation (therapeutic and diagnostic) is transversally crossing the specialized disciplines (from the revolution of monoclonal antibodies to advanced therapies) and Neurology is the terrain of important innovations.
“The synergy between actors and services – he continues – is one of the recurring elements within the works of this two-year period, as well as the digital or territorial organization in the perspective of the proximity of care. In general, all the research themes have contributed to shed light on the many factors that contribute to definition of care and assistance pathways in the neurological field considering the challenges that the health system is facing and the frontiers of innovation in the neurological field. Themes that with the pandemic have assumed a leading role and which today are the protagonists of the ongoing health evolution “.
“The neurological field – continues Tozzi – by its nature is faced with some of the most difficult management challenges, because it is aimed at highly complex chronic patients who take on increasing volumes and in this sense neurology can be an important bench of test and work ground for the entire system. For this reason – he concludes – I am convinced that the experience of this two-year period has gone beyond the specialist boundaries and has proved to be an effective incubator of analysis and ideas to better understand the transformation we are living “.
“Biogen sees research and innovation as the necessary hub on which to base progress. The last two years, in particular – he points out Giuseppe Banfi, CEO of Biogen Italy – represented an unprecedented challenge for health systems, a unique historical moment, which requires us to welcome change and value positive opportunities, both in the short and in the long term. What we hope and what we will work for is that the NeuroMLab becomes more and more an incubator of ideas and a catalyst for new paths, capable of uniting all the actors of the ‘health system’ to work side by side with the aim of identifying the critical issues of the present and defining priorities and solutions for the future ”.
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