AN INTEGRATED DIGITAL SOLUTION TO IMPROVE THE GOVERNANCE AND THE MONITORING OF LOGISTICS FOR MEDICINES AND MEDICAL DEVICES

Paolo Locatelli, Federica Cirilli, Antonio Jacopo Scardigno
2019 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Applied Computing 2019   unpublished
In the last years, global healthcare is going through a consistent growth and a significant transformation of its information systems and supply chains. This evolution affects the traditional medicines and medical devices logistics and operating models and the integration of healthcare systems and healthcare information management systems. Digital solutions show to play an important role in tackle the abovementioned issues but these applications are generally focused on one or few specific
more » ... ts. The project "LIFEMED -Integrated Logistics of Medicines and Medical Devices" aims at introducing an innovative integrated platform that manages all the logistics components of medicines and medical devices and enables an improved clinical governance. In particular, together with a set of telemedicine, traceability, clinical management and transport monitoring platforms for the monitoring and management of the logistics and clinical processes, the solution will be also characterized by an evidence-based decision making system and by an effective risk management module so to strategically analyze all the gathered data. In this regard, attention must be paid in considering the wide heterogeneity of the processed data and the privacy, ethical and security implications.
doi:10.33965/ac2019_201912p042 fatcat:xc26npji7vg4jk3r4fapogxs2e