Healthcare Professionals Identification at regional and local level: an RFId integrated scenario based on synergic experiences

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Healthcare Professionals Identification at regional and local level: an RFId integrated scenario based on synergic experiences

Publication Date: 30 January 2009

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Author: Elena Sini | Paolo Locatelli | Nicola Restifo | Massimo Torresani

Topic: Computer assisted surgery, Electronic health records, Hospital information systems, Regional/national Health Information Networks

Country: Italy

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<p>This paper presents a perspective scenario which ties closely a couple of top tier projects related to identification provisioning and traceability developed in the Lombardy Region, Italy.</p>

The Regional Government of Lombardy is promoting an important renewal of the regional healthcare information system, as well as of the IT portfolio in local organizations. The aim is to digitalize processes and data regarding healthcare services in order to improve controlling capabilities, integration among institutions and completeness of information. This will enable new services to citizens and foster cost-effectiveness of care. The new Regional Healthcare Smart Card is a key element: it is a contact card which enables secure electronic identification and access to the new regional healthcare platform. Citizens/patients can access to online services and care providers, pay for analysis, state their social security number and basic medical data. Healthcare professionals and GPs can now digitally sign reports and documents, get access to patients' data from other hospitals, and so on.

In Milan, the Fondazione Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (the Italian National Cancer Institute), is promoting together with Fondazione Politecnico di Milano and other Institutions a platform for safety and traceability of clinical processes (e.g. transfusions, chemotherapy, medical devices, tissue bank operations) based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFId) technology. Organizations are moving towards RFId in many clinical areas.

Knowing that the Regional Government is exploring scenarios of RFId evolution of the actual contact cards, we have outlined a scenario in which the Istituto could perform an early assessment of the effectiveness of RFId in staff identification and access to clinical applications. The use of a sole card with certified data could solve emerging issues related for example to multiple-provisioning of secure staff identification means, considering the spreading of RFId applications in healthcare. Besides, this could be a chance to enhance overall platform capabilities and move towards and effective system to provide also mobile applications with reliable information on users' identity.

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