FORESEE the onset of a disease in a single person, as well as a health emergency. No, we are not (obviously) talking about divinatory arts but about artificial intelligence and big data: the two tools that allow us to build forecasting models, which are increasingly important to better manage health. Indeed, necessary, since 20% of Italians today are over 65 and almost 2.5 million are over 85.
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The interview with Fidelia Cascini
Fidelia Cascini, researcher and professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the Catholic University of Rome, interviewed in the second episode of the Roche Now talk about how to deal with the progressive aging of the population from the health point of view with the help of digital technologies and management software . “We must imagine artificial intelligence as an engine and big data as the fuel that powers it, to support the evolution of the role of medical science”, explains the digital health expert: “The information assets provided by the data are in fact processed from artificial intelligence, such as machine learning systems or neural networks, creating prediction models that can support diagnostics and prevention, and direct medical science more and more towards the personalization of care and precision medicine “.
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More and more technological hospitals and local medicine
More and more sophisticated technologies will also allow the patient to monitor the evolution of their state of health and the health system to deal more readily with emergencies such as epidemics, which arrive suddenly and require immediate adaptability. “The investments envisaged by the PNRR – adds Cascini – can make us imagine a future in which hospitals will be centers of excellence and high technological sophistication, flanked by a local medicine divided into different structures, in order to be able to follow the patient and reserve attention particular to the entire health path “.
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