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Vaccini, the scientific director of Lazio Ieraci: “Digital and territory for the medicine of the future”

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A “winning mechanism”. That combines the digital with a widespread organization in the area, which involves family doctors, pharmacists and even pediatricians. And at the same time “a flexible organization that in the coming months, depending on how the pandemic will go, will allow us to overcome the large hubs, set up for mass vaccination and focus on vaccination entrusted to the structures of the regional health system”. Roberto Ieraci works without pauses on the Lazio anti-coronavirus vaccination campaign, of which he is scientific director, in the face of his ten-year experience as head of vaccinations of the ASL Roma1. And it is already looking to the future, thinking of Covid but also of all citizens’ vaccinations, starting from childhood.

The formula: crossing the American model with the Israeli and British one

«We have crossed the American model. As for the digital platform, with the Israeli and English ones: we go to the people, to make it as available as possible, explain and convince ». It is that “proximity and personalized medicine that remains the main objective, in prevention, treatment, vaccination. The GP knows the patients, there are the frail, the immunosuppressed, the people who have undergone transplants. The knowledge of the data gives us an increasingly personalized approach. In this strategy the Region has had an enlightened attitude ».

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The importance of “treasuring” the experience of mass vaccination against Covid

And even the choice of open days on weekends responds to the need to facilitate access to vaccination, but the experience of these months must not be lost. Mass vaccination against Covid, explains Ieraci, has made it possible to acquire a series of data that will be transferred to the management of all vaccinations. The extraordinary commissioner received the indication to manage the recall game with the structure of the National Health Service: “this is the commitment, the large amount of data and the IT platform today allow us to reach many people and we will be able to overcome communication paper. Digital and, I repeat, proximity medicine », underlines Ieraci.

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Widespread teaching of vaccinology is needed

The scientific director of the Lazio vaccination campaign hopes for a widespread teaching of vaccinology, to give adequate skills to those who will be called to vaccinate: «it is a separate discipline, different from immunology. It should be studied, we must ensure that the new generation of doctors and nurses have the adequate knowledge to vaccinate, explain to people the benefits of vaccinations, with competence ».

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