AER eHe@th Network MeetingCross-border e-he@lth: Challenges

and OpportunitiesRegions’ updates on latest developments in e-health

Regione Lombardia

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The Healthcare Network of Lombardia

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REGI ONE LOMBARDIA

PHARMACI ES

HEALTH & SOCI AL ASSI STANCE

GENERAL PRACTI TI ONERS

LOCAL HEALTH CARE UNI TS

CITIZENS

HOSPI TALS

REGI ONE LOMBARDIA

PHARMACI ES

HEALTH & SOCI AL ASSI STANCE

GENERAL PRACTI TI ONERS

LOCAL HEALTH CARE UNI TS

CITIZENS

HOSPI TALS

Lombardy, like every Italian Region, is directly responsible for HC service provision

• 9.300.000 Citizens• 150.000 Health & Social Care

Operators (public and private)• 7.800 General Practitioners and

Pediatricians• 2.500 Pharmacies• 15 Local Healthcare Unit• 112 Public Hospitals

including 8 University Hospitals• Over 570 Private Healthcare

Services Suppliers• Budget for Health in 2008: 17

billions €

Priorities in eHealth• SISS: Social Services and Health Care IT System

Citizen Identification: Regional General Registry and Citizen Card e-Prescriptions Management to enable a truly digital use of prescriptions during their

life cycle: drugs and services coding, control, digital signature, storage, display Electronic Health Record (EHR): shares clinical data among HC Professionals (events,

prescriptions, reports, care profile, …), enables on-line access for Citizens Booking and Payment Services for Citizens by Internet, GP, Pharmacies, Regional Call

Center, to improve citizen’s access to HC services Business Intelligence and DataWarehouse to make analyses and forecasts of

epidemiological trends and to manage and forecast regional healthcare expenditure trends

Digitalization of all medical and administrative documents in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness of processes

Accounting information flow management: incremental records of administrative data in order to ensure on-line updating of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Systems

Security Services: Identification & Authorisation, encryption

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Priorities in eHealth• Smart Card as key-access: recognition of the entitlements of

users

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Priorities in eHealth• The Disease-Specific Network– The disease-specific network concept involves the

development, on a regional scale, of a health care organisation model based on the creation of networks of services providing care and treatment for a specific condition. • ROL: Oncology Network• EPINETWORK: Epilepsy Network• REL: Hematology Network• Rare Disease Network

Aims: Definition of a Minimum Data set of information to be included in a

disease-specific Health Record.Structured documents to be share.

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Current activities and prioritiesContributing to enhance eHealth as an enabler for cross-border healthcare: regional alliances

Veneto – 2007 Health care system innovation Sustenebility of HealthCare systems Cross-border cooperation

Rhone Alpes - 2008 eHealth services and tools Electronic Health Record EU initiatives

Andalusia - 2008 eHealth services and tools Cronic diseases Electronic Health Record

Friuli Venezia Giulia - 2009 Socio-Health care systems benchmarking Continuity of care, telemedicine, eHealth Network of excellence, EU initiatives Interregional cooperation

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Current activities and priorities

Contributing to enhance eHealth as an enabler for cross-border healthcare: EU projects

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Current activities and priorities

Contributing to enhance eHealth as an enabler for cross-border healthcare: EU projects

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Contacts:Claudio Beretta claudio_beretta@regione.lombardia.itRoberto Zuffadaroberto.zuffada@cnt.lispa.it

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