Il 23 marzo a Barcellona è iniziata la sesta conferenza internazionale sulla telemedicina eTELEMED 2014 organizzata dall'International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA), nel corso della quale si incontrano e si confrontano realtà di ricerca e industriali.
Francesca Frexia (CRS4) in continuità con i risultati del progetto Remote presentati lo scorso anno, il 27 marzo illustrerà altri aspetti della ricerca relativi all’analisi dei costi e benefici di un sistema di Telemedicina Real-Time.
Titolo del Paper: Preliminary Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Real-Time Telemedicine System
Abstract: Information and communication technology in the medical field has witnessed great advances at research level but it is still largely unapplied in routine clinical practice. Technology-driven solutions, proved experimentally effective, are not always efficient in the complex health world. Each form of innovation needs to be sustainable, from an economic and organizational points of view, if it is to progress from the prototype phase to become a practical element of the healthcare system. A cost-benefit analysis can help establish if this is the case. Here, we apply a preliminary cost-benefit analysis to the real-time telemedicine platform we developed. It has proven successful from a diagnostic point of view, but how does it perform from an economic perspective? Our analysis compares the overall cost of the platform to the economic savings made from its operational use - where unnecessary patients’ transfers are avoided. We estimate potential savings of about 66% of current costs.
Autori: Francesca Frexia, Riccardo Triunfo, Francesco Cabras, Cecila Mascia, Gianluigi Zanetti per Healthcare Flows Group CRS4. Sabrina Montis, Roberto Tumbarello per Cardiologia Pediatrica, Azienda Ospedaliera Brotzu.