In March, the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, spoke about the new guidelines of health and its future, introducing the concept of data-driven healthcare, that is, a healthcare driven by data and information. Data and their processing represent the future of every sector, not just healthcare, since they allow the introduction of new management tools and the development of predictive capabilities: just think of those deriving from the possibility of accessing epidemiological databases fed in real time.
Information of this type can clearly never replace classical clinical research, however, access to these data – which represent what is now commonly called real-world evidence – and the analysis of their clinical significance allows us to objectify clinical choices. through access to large databases. For example, a dentist who has to evaluate and decide on an implantology job in a patient could know, in real time, the success rate in relation to age, gender and bone density of the patients of other colleagues. Furthermore, these digitally organized data can go to compose one evolved medical record useful not only to the dentist, but also to the patient in monitoring the status of the implant.
Within the dental offices there are currently various technologies capable of processing data: photographs, radiographs, impressions. There are, in fact, many technologies, but the use of cloud based software has not yet spread. The ability to access real-world evidence data thanks to a software cloud based and shared is of particular importance in the field of implantology: it is well known, in fact, that implant success and survival rates, as well as the success of entire prosthetic rehabilitations on implants, are attributable to both the patient and the surgeon, as well as to the materials and techniques used. It is precisely in the presence of several factors that the statistical analysis of a significant amount of data, especially if performed using advanced algorithms, can further objectify clinical protocols and, of course, direct the execution of new research protocols.
It is in this context that IDI Evolution created Alfred: an advanced digital system, capable of applying sophisticated calculation algorithms to a database of implant insertions that is fed in real time by the same clinicians who adhere to the project, at the very moment in which they perform implant placement surgery. The database constitutes a database that allows Alfred, thanks to the application of specific predictive algorithms, to provide the surgeon – already in the planning stage – with precise guidance on what to expect during the surgery, how to carry it out. in the best way, without unpleasant surprises for the clinician nor for the patient.
A digital butler at the service of dentists
“We launch the Beta version of this platform with artificial intelligence destined to introduce a series of innovations in the sector such as greater transparency with patients, greater control, better results, less time in the chair and the possibility of setting more interventions for the clinician, digitization of the entire treatment process ” – declares Andrea Piantoni, Chief Innovation Officer of IDI Evolution. In fact, by putting data analysis in common, Alfred becomes not only a digital storage space, but a system capable of guiding clinicians step by step, step by step. This platform is currently already in use in 117 dental practices for a total of 2600 patients.
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