Tratto dal libro “Verso e-Health 2020 – Casi di successo italiani ed
esperienze internazionali”, di Pasquale Tarallo, edito da “Gruppo 24
Ore” nel febbraio 2012.
"The Villa Maria Group"Part
3 - Back on the other hand the use of technology in healthcare, it is
firstly noted that every year GVM Care & Researchn devotes
significant resources to new innovative projects of strategic interest,
as well as to update the big machines in their facilities . From this point have been set up technology centers that operate through the use of sophisticated machinery of last generation.The Maria Cecilia Hospital in Cotignola, for example, uses the Sterotaxis and Philips Ingenia. The
first is a system for the magnetic navigation of ablation catheters in
together with the arrhythmology MediGuide cardiac mapping system based
on the principle of the use of a magnetic field to the location of any
object the size of several millimeters within the heart or arteries. This
technology allows to achieve more precise targets within the heart
sick: navigating to the targets is driven by a display like the one used
by topgun in modern warfare. This
system - which is part of a collaborative project with the technology
research centers in Israel - is the only one to be installed in Italy
and second in the world. Philips
Ingenia is instead a machine for the execution of diagnostic magnetic
resonance images with a particular focus in the field of cardiology.In
Bologna, at the Villa Torri Hospital was recently renovated the entire
fleet, including one NMR, a CAT scan and an angiography of the latest
generation. This
improved technology platform in the European premiere thanks to a
partnership signed with Toshiba as a group of Italian reference for the
latest news in the field of large equipment and innovative applications,
engages nell'alveo of Technology Assessment activities that GVM Care
& Research seeks to promote through those solutions are not yet on
the Italian market that will become reality in the near future
diagnostic and treatment health care provider. Among
these are: treatment guided focused ultrasound to MRI, the integration
of ultrasound and cardiac catheterization, the diagnostic laboratory
notebook, tele-cardiology and tele-medicine internationally.Finally,
special attention deserves the pole of the Arrhythmia Maria Cecilia
Hospital in Cotignola, scientists led by Carlo Pappone, a pioneer in
high-tech life-saving interventions for arrhythmias and heart failure. This
is a project dedicated not only to diagnosis and treatment of diseases
aritmologiche, but also the development of new technologies to simplify
the therapies currently in place. For
the first time technologies very complex communicate with one another
without wires and are ordered in an environment architecturally designed
to measure. The
operators work in operating rooms where space is designed for
physicians, nurses, researchers and scientists can easily communicate
and interface with the machines. A
Cotignola are active three operating rooms, one dedicated to navigation
systems, one for robotics and interventions for hybrids. In
them is the reconstruction in detail of the heart chambers and the
electrical conduction system of the heart in three dimensional space. Such
systems work inside of electric fields and magnetic fields created
opportunemente to obtain levels of precision, both in the navigation in
the achievement of pathological sites, microscopic, to be achieved
within the heart. Fluoroscopic
systems of electric and magnetic communicate for the first time as
integrated units and no longer independent of each other. Super computers coordinate the activities of the machines and operators, the space is equipped with electrostatic panels. Rather
than operating room is an environment which integrates the best of
existing technologies, but also exploring new horizons for the
application of nanotechnology to the treatment of chronic arrhythmia,
not only on a macroscopic anatomical but also molecular. The center is linked via satellite and Internet networks with important specialized research centers worldwide. These communications will allow the repair, but also the development of machines, even after several thousands of kilometers. The
software and the components are continuously monitored by remote
centers, with the aim of improving the technological capabilities of
precision and speed. The
operating rooms are also surrounded by open spaces that allow viewers
to see in real time operation of these technologies on patients. Ultimately it is a veritable laboratory of the future!In
conclusion, I believe that e-Health is now an integral part of the
scenario of healthcare in our country and I am proud to represent,
through the facilities of the Group that I lead, an important outpost of
the most innovative and avant-garde experimentation.
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