Open Fiber will make its resources and skills available for an experimentation relating to telemedicine with the precious collaboration of the Milan Polyclinic, already a pioneer in e-health.
The ongoing evolution of demographic dynamics e changing lifestyles of the population, pose major challenges for the National Health System. First of all, the need to guarantee an improvement in the patient's living conditions and at the same time increase the efficiency of public health expenditure, ensuring its sustainability over time, through the reduction of hospitalization that is not strictly necessary.
The trial will involve a group of patients from the Polyclinic, who will be monitored at home and will be able to interact with their doctors thanks to the Open Fiber network. In particular, the project plans to involve various leading disciplines of the Polyclinic, from rare diseases to the care of chronic and frail patients. The hospital, as a national and international point of reference for many pathologies, can make available the widest range of patients, combined with a strong link between clinic and scientific research: the Polyclinic is in fact the first public institute for quality and quantity of the research produced.
The new innovative technological solutions of telemedicine play a key role in guaranteeing complete access to treatment for everyone, allowing monitoring, assistance and remote intervention which is essential for communication between patient and clinician in real time. The Open Fiber fiber optic network is an enabling element for home hospitalization and has the objective of improving the relationship between patient and care by guaranteeing a system of continuous services.
Ultra-broadband connections are stable, less prone to service interruptions and technical problems than more obsolete technologies. Reliability, high resiliency and low latency are inherent characteristics of optical fiber and an essential prerequisite when it comes to health.
Thanks to the characteristics of the Open Fiber network, which guarantees equal speed and large data transmission and reception capacity, it will be possible to monitor the conditions of a patient with chronic pathologies with high quality video in real time, continuously with minimal impact on his life. Through the application of wearables solutions (wearable garments with sensors capable of detecting vital parameters), for example, it will be possible to carry out an integrated analysis of the data by doctors who will be able to respond simultaneously.
