The Role of ICT and Mobile Health to Improve Clinical Process Management. An Overview on the Therapy Management Process and a Real Case

摘要

The volume and the complexity of clinical and administrative information make Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) essential to run and innovate healthcare. Mobile&Wireless solutions, integrated to Automatic Identification and Data Capture technology and to Hospital Information Systems, can provide staff with software applications in order to manage critical activities on the go, associate data to objects and increase the volume and timeliness of available data on processes. This paper presents a project aimed to design, develop and implement a set of organizational models, acknowledged procedures and ICT tools to improve actual support, safety, reliability and traceability of a specific therapy management process - the one related to haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) and therapeutic cell (TC) donation, processing and transplantation. The project value is to design a solution based on mobile and identification technology in close collaboration with physicians and actors involved in the process to ensure usability and effectiveness in process and risk management.