The strategic nature and centrality of digital are therefore now recognized by all clinical and decision-making professionals in healthcare, as well as by institutional levels, and the crisis resulting from SARS-Cov-2, has further eliminated any doubt in this sense, even to non experts: only through the full use of digital technologies is it possible to make quick and quality decisions for the health of citizens.
In organizational terms, one of the most representative examples are, for example, the new models of assistance and care that redesign and integrate the “roles” of the hospital and the territory, in which the achievement of the health result of the citizen-patient is commensurate with the resources used from the system, referable to a single health intervention or to an entire care path. These models can only be enabled and supported through digital technology, with which the complete information catalog on patients (clinical history, care pathways in which they are inserted, existing therapies, etc.) and IT tools can be made available to the system actors of advanced care, ie real “digital assistants” who work alongside professionals in diagnosis and treatment choices.