Digital Transformation Hub

The Digital Transformation Hub aims to support and shape, through research and other activities, the process of digital transformation that health and social care organizations and services are currently undergoing. It does so starting from the Italian NHS but contributes also to the international debate on the digital transformation of health and social care systems.
The Hub aims to gather a large community of diverse stakeholders interested in digital transformation including patients and their associations, health and social managers both in the public and private sectors, health and social care professionals, policy makers, and digital technology developers.
The research projects of the Hub deal with the integration in health and social care services and organizations of a variety of digital technological solutions including telehealth, applications (App) and mobile health, artificial intelligence, digital therapeutics, electronic health records and robotics in a variety of applications such as in chronic care, oncology, infectious diseases, ageing and impacting diverse type of services, including imaging, drugs logistics, laboratory information systems, emergency and non-emergency settings, primary and elderly care.
In the hub, CeRGAS researchers exhibit the research projects they are involved in, their main results and put forward their reflections on the topic of digital transformation applied to health and social care. The Hub produces also ad hoc analyses about the readiness, transferability and transformational impact of digital solutions, powered by the LIFT Lab of SDA Bocconi School of Management.
The Hub also connects whoever is interested in the topic of digital transformation in health and social care with other research projects carried out in the context of the CeRGAS Observatories and the educational activities promoted by researchers at SDA Bocconi School of Management.
The Hub is the result also of the work conducted by Bocconi researchers within the MUSA – Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action – Project, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment Line 1.5.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Teliot Project

TELIOT aims at evaluating the impact on patients and specialists of telemedicine and the use of an app in the care of a chronic condition, osteoporosis.

Lung Cancer App (LuCApp)

LuCApp is a mobile app developed to promote real-time monitoring and management of patients’ symptoms to ultimately improve the quality of life and the delivery of care for patients with lung cancer.

GerOnTe

Streamlined Geriatric and oncological evaluation based on IC Technology for holistic patient-oriented healthcare management for older multimorbid patients

Cinderella

Clinical Validation and multidimensional assessment of an AI-based approach to improve the shared decision-making process and outcomes in Breast Cancer Patients proposed for Locoregional treatment

mHealth apps and mHealth repositories

The mHealth apps project aims to determine stakeholder (clinicians, patients, healthcare systems, regulators, insurers, developers) needs in terms of information and evidence to find, assess, approve, prescribe and determine coverage for mHealth apps for uptake by patients and clinicians.

Sanità Digitale - Digital Health

Developing new digital care pathways and information systems in the Italian NHS

MUSA – Spoke 2 WP5 Task 3

Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action; Spoke 2: Big Data-Open Data in Life Sciences; WP5: Develop, implement and sustain technological innovation in health; Task 3: Support innovation implementation

COMED: Pushing the boundaries of cost and outcome analysis of medical technologies

COMED aimed at advancing scientific knowledge on medical devices by overcoming existing gaps associated with the evaluation of digital technologies, addressing challenges in the use of real-world data, and uncovering drivers of variation in access to medical devices across countries.

iARPlus Project

Towards multi-channel models. An innovative model for taking care of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

ShareView

Supporting shared decision-making and communication in metastatic breast cancer

POWER: Physical activity Outcome in hemophilia A patients Without inhibitors Evaluated in a Real-world setting

POWER is a multicenter, noninterventional, prospective study which aimed at evaluating the relationship between physical activity levels and bleeding in a target population of approximately 150 individuals aged between 12 and 50 years with severe/moderate hemophilia A without inhibitors against Factor VIII, also through the collection of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) via a mobile app.

APRI (Aids Plan Regional Implementation)

HIV and telemedicine in the perspective of patients

Area Sanità – Strategie per la salute del Paese

Developing a position paper on selected key trends and challenges in healthcare: Human resource management, digitalization, big data and AI.

Impact evaluation: Project Ciao!

Evaluation of the outcomes of project “Ciao!” implemented in Italian nursing homes

The Role and Impacts of Digital Innovations in Nursing Homes

Evaluation of the managerial impact of the introduction of electronic health records in nursing homes.

The eLMIS & EIR project

Evaluating the impact of electronic Logistic Management Information Systems (eLMIS) and Electronic Immunization Registries (EIR) in low- and middle-income countries