The SISAPU project intends to requalify and reorganize the healthcare services of Bari and Taranto (the project takes the name respectively of SISA-BA and SISA-TA), in compliance with art. 71, paragraph 1, Law n. 448 of 1998. Such project has been predisposed by ISBEM (Euro-Mediterranean Scientific Biomedical Institute) on behalf of the Puglia Region and has been introduced by the latter following the Decree 15,09,1999 " Criteria, modalities and terms for the formulation and the presentation of the projects, in compliance with art. 71, Law 23 December 1998, n. 448 ".

The SISA-PU project intends to supply the citizens of the Puglia Region, in this specific case starting from those of Bari and Taranto, with the integration of social-healthcare services and with a series of new interventions aimed at creating an efficient system, so as to improve the quality of life.

The Project - devised by the Puglia Region, with the aid of ISBEM (Euro-Mediterranean Scientific Biomedical Institute) – aims at overcoming the critical state of the cities’ healthcare system, on the basis of:

  1. Principles of the National Healthcare Plan and Regional regulations;

  2. Centralness of the Cures Continuity;

  3. Approach to systems centred on the patient and on the clinical files (the Patient Orientation).

Global purpose of the project is the reorganization and the requalification of the social and healthcare assistance. The project has been articulated on three distinguished levels, according to the three intervention typologies that have been detected (directive, connection and specific). Such levels can be substantiated in three specific subprojects:

  1. Management and Methodological. Such subproject is realized in the constitution and in the functioning of a coordination for the interoperability of the healthcare services, that supervises the management of the SISA-PU project, common for both the cities of Bari and Taranto, so as to avoid the risk of a plan turning out from the mere sum of the single interventions, and thus guaranteeing the coordination of strategic choices that follow a logic referred to the entire city and to all the services safeguarding health. In particular, it will control the management of all the lines of action and it will experiment functional and regulation models pertaining the methodological initiatives.

  2. Infrastructural Telematic. Problems concerning the accessibility and the assistance continuity on the territory will be faced with the experimentation of a series of harmonized measures, aimed at developing diversified managerial models for the reorganization of the existing territorial Healthcare Services and Hospitals of Bari and Taranto. In this specific case, all this will be achieved through the integration of institutional, private and public subjects, such as the Local Health Units, the Hospitals of Bari and Taranto, the General Hospital, the Scientific Nursing Homes, the Communes of Bari and Taranto, the service industry and the enterprises of the social-healthcare and biomedical sector.

  3. Structural-technological. This subproject intends to bring about specific interventions that, whilst considering the characteristics, the necessities and the opportunities of the metropolitan areas of Bari and Taranto, will allow a more immediate accessibility and availability of the healthcare services.

The necessity of the Region to address the citizen towards appropriate healthcare services (territory spreading information, cure continuity) and to have tools necessary for the  formulation of healthcare policies (awareness of the demand, of the potentiality and of the binding forces of the offer), on one side imposes the strengthening of the technological and structural equipment, as well as the creation of new standardised communication channels fit for the citizen, on the other side it demands to think a management that, from the point of view of integration and management of the knowledge, is able to look for, to process and to address useful information for the project at issue, for the Citizen and for the Region itself. For the attainment of the above mentioned purposes, the SISA-PU is articulated on three distinguished levels, that can be substantiated in three specific subprojects: Management and Methodological, Infrastructural and Structural-Technological (see fig. 1).

  • Management and Methodological Such subproject is realized in the constitution and in the functioning of a coordination for the interoperability of the healthcare services, that supervises the management of the SISA-PU project, common for both the cities of Bari and Taranto, so as to avoid the risk of a plan turning out from the mere sum of the single interventions, and thus guaranteeing the coordination of the strategic choices that follow a logic referred to the entire city and to all the services safeguarding health. In particular:

o       It will experiment functional and regulations models

o       It will be in charge of the management of all the lines of action  

 

Furthermore, the CISS (Coordination for the Inter-operability of the Healthcare Services) will be in charge of detecting the infrastructural prerequisites pertaining the coordination and the inter-operability of the healthcare services, without interfering with the daily work of each Service and  Hospitals of the National Healthcare Service and without weighing on the work they carry out. Such prerequisites are: the optimisation of healthcare runs, guidelines, the monitoring of the quality and of the safety, the work environment, the existence of a Registry of the healthcare resources which is integrated, dynamic and has geographical references, as well as the professional training of healthcare staff  according to the Healthcare Communication rules.

  • Infrastructural Telematic Problems concerning the accessibility and the assistance continuity on the territory will be faced with the experimentation of a series of harmonized measures,  aimed at developing diversified managerial models for the reorganization of the existing territorial Healthcare Services and Hospitals of Bari and Taranto. In this specific case, all this will be achieved through the integration of institutional, private and public subjects, such as the Local Health Units, the Hospitals of Bari and Taranto, the General Hospital, the Scientific Nursing Homes, the Communes of Bari and Taranto, the service industry and the enterprises of the social-healthcare and biomedical sector. In particular, the following infrastructural interventions are foreseen:

-    The creation of  Assisted Nursing Homes, with a particular attention towards elderly people and  disabled, in order to control both the human and the economic costs of the hospitalisation, limiting it to the treatment of acute states in compliance with what has been established by the National Healthcare Plan 98-00. The creation of an Open  Polyvalent Centre is also foreseen, in order to guarantee multispecialistic, rehabilitative, psychological and cultural socialization services. Moreover, so as to enrich the alternative solution to the hospitalisation, it will be necessary to adopt the telematic monitoring system, thus allowing the remote control of the chronic phases of the patient’s pathology.

-    The creation of a mobile network, the establishment of maps with geographical references, as well as the improvement of both accesses and runs.

-    The planning and the implementation of a computer system able to connect, within a special network, general practitioners with the Local Health Units and to realize a system of clinical files (in conformity with the guidelines suggested by the subproject ”Management and Methodological”). Therefore, doctors will have at their disposal a series of services, from the patient’s healthcare registry, to the possibility of booking examinations via a telematic access to the Sole Reservation Centre, from the use of diagnostic-therapeutic guidelines (decided by the subproject ”Management and Methodological”), to the automatic verification of the pharmacological compatibility, from the consultation of clinical files, to the use of automatic " flag " warnings that signal the opportunity to perform preventive analyses (mammographies, dental visits, blood tests, etc).

-     the creation of inter-company operating units for:

1.   The management of departments for clinical specialties such as: Cardiovascular and Endocrino-Metabolic Diseases, Neurosciences, Maternal infantile and woman’s health with the integrated management of biomedical technologies and information technology, so as to guarantee the communication among the clinical inter-company departments and the access to clinical information;

2.  The implementation and the management of integrated computer clinical files in which it should converge the entire clinical history of the patient, so as to render it accessible - to authorized healthcare staff – whenever there is the necessity (lack of communication due to the patient’s trauma or psychological uneasiness, necessity to operate a quick monitoring of a pathology’s evolution or necessity to have an overall picture of the situation, etc);

3.   The implementation of a telematic monitoring system in order to control the pathologies’ chronic phase, so as to enable a clinical survey in non hospital structures, such as  houses, Assisted Nursing Homes, general physician’s surgeries, etc

4.  The accomplishment of a metropolitan Sole Reservation Centre that will allow the citizens of Bari to gain access to any specialist service existing within the city’s Health Unit. In this ambit, under the coordination of the Puglia Region - that with the Ministry of Health has started projects based on the Former art.12, paragraph 2 letter B of the Legislative Decree 502/92 and further modifications – it is possible to register initiatives of the Local Health Unit, of the Hospital and the General Hospital in order to determine common diagnostic-therapeutic protocols that favour the exchange of information and the univocal treatment of some pathologies of interest for the departments mentioned at the point 2.a.

-    The identification of a permanent social-healthcare observatory for disabled and underprivileged subjects, and the location of a data bank of all the services’ activities, that act as a base, both for primary and secondary prevention initiatives, and for a standardization of the information most suitable to favour a correct method of assistance, as well as a proper healthcare and social support for such subjects.

  • Structural-technological. This subproject intends to bring about specific interventions that, whilst considering the characteristics, the necessities and the opportunities of the metropolitan areas of Bari and Taranto, will allow a more immediate accessibility and availability of the healthcare services. The structural interventions should be made more evident and it should be made clear how much the SISA-PU project considers the characteristics and the necessities of the city of Bari, where the attention is mainly focused on the San Paolo district, in which the rate of social deviance is high because of the infrastructural degradation and because of the lack of social-healthcare and productive structures. In particular the project foresees:

-     The city requalification of the San Paolo district by means of:

1.  The creation of an events’ centre so as to have an attraction pole for conventions, professional training stages, etc. The operating units dedicated to the integrated management of biomedical technologies and information technology, as well as those dedicated to the epidemiological observatory of weak subjects, will be located in the same centre.

2.  Interventions on the insufficient road network that does not allow an easy access to the San Paolo Hospital from the State Roads 16 and 16 bis.

 -   Interventions on the practicability all around the Hospital " Fallacara " of Triggiano;

-    Requalification of the centre of assistance " A. Moro " belonging to the Opera Pia " Di Venere " former IPAB (Ceglie del Campo), to be used as an Assisted Nursing Home.

q      Strengthening of the territorial services in order to favour the access to primary services;

q   Development of activities oriented to the prevention and to the improvement of the quality of life;

q       Promotion of the actions that enable to meet the needs of those categories more at risk;

q   Requalification and arrangement of the estates belonging to the healthcare system for its better management.

for further information please contact:

Dr. Elena Gianicolo

tel.  +39-0831/507338

email:  gianicolo@isbem.cnrsm.it

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