Digital healthcare at no cost to the public comes from the private sector

Starace (CEO CEO Seven Holding): we offer our technology for free

ROME – “We make our digital health projects available to public universities and hospitals together with our technology, studied, produced and paid for by the private sector. All free of charge, in an experimental phase, with the aim of creating integration between public and private healthcare. We are ready to transfer our discoveries in digital health and the latest generation tools regarding telemedicine. There will be no cost to public health.” The offer, aimed at institutions, arrived as part of the Forbes Healthcare Summit, fromRiccardo Starace, CEO of Seven Holding, which controls 11 companies involved in the social and healthcare sector and producers of to provide assistance services. We therefore provide a turnkey digital health and telemedicine system. Thanks to continuous investment in research supported by private funds, we have created a center for innovation and development in the field of digital health where fifteen international researchers work – added Starace – Our technology allows the integration of different care settings , 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, control of health parameters through a device, listening center, telemedicine, televisits, home care and outpatient clinic services, to revolutionize the approach to care. We still have a hospital-centric vision, for any health problem we are used to turning to healthcare facilities, to the emergency network, but the digitalisation of systems can help us in assessing the patient at home, reducing the load on the hospital system and unnecessary visits by chronic patients to emergency rooms, restoring centrality to the proximity network represented by family doctors and pharmacies”.
“Innovation is changing the way in which healthcare is provided, allowing us to rethink the care models with a view to greater efficiency and accessibility of assistance – he explained – The growth in digital spending in Italy continues, in 2023 it amounted to 2.2 billion euros but the rates of use of telemedicine are still occasional, for technological and organizational reasons. Many medical specialists still do not have adequate digital tools. Yet some recent data demonstrate that in the last year only 8% of patients used televisit services with the specialist and 11% used telemonitoring of clinical parameters, but with a level of future interest in using these services close to 80%”, he added.
According to Starace “the contribution that can be offered by digital healthcare is significant but it is necessary to continue investing in research so as to encourage the development of care formats that improve the therapeutic aspect. Italian healthcare can grow above all if a strong integration is created between public and private that allows us to look at innovation in a unique way, reducing hospitalization through the offer of efficient integrated home care. There are already sophisticated and tested tools that allow us to intercept the needs of patients in their homes but we need to make the best use of them, integrating them into a new care service”.