ICT for Health

ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically pointed out the next urgent challenges of digital medical technologies: telemedicine, e-health, m-health, smart hospitals, digital homecare. Expectations about the potential driving role played by 5G technologies are great. After exploring the medical requirements of the considered scenarios, the PhD student is expected to develop technological solutions based on next generation 5G networks, in the context of telemedicine (e.g., digital homecare and monitoring) and smart hospitals (e.g., monitoring of isolated patients).

Available

Can be assigned to one doctoral student of cycle XXXVI

OBJECTIVES

• Comprehensive analysis of medical requirements of e-health systems in an epidemic scenario
• Comprehensive analysis of ICT requirements in the context of telemedicine and smart hospitals
• Development of m-health technological solutions fruitfully exploiting the features of 5G networks

ABSTRACT

One of the fundamental challenges in healthcare management is to achieve an efficient utilization of expensive resources, while maintaining or increasing the quality of care. Quantitative decision tools, extensively used in the industry, are not yet widely applied in the health care sector. In this context the development and usage of of decision support tools for planning and management is a challenging task.

Available

Can be assigned to one doctoral student of cycle XXXVI 

OBJECTIVES

The main objective of the research activity is the development of new support tool for solving decision operational and tactical healthcare management problems, mainly related to personnel scheduling, timetabling and scheduling and utilization of the limited resources (rooms and facilities) of an hospital.

ABSTRACT 

In the last years logistics has gained a strategic role in the management of hospitals. Managers are moving towards the use of various optimization tools, software and methods to achieve improvements in the offered services, and significant results were obtained in reducing errors, improving process quality and reducing waiting times. However, internal and external activities still require a significant effort to be re-designed and optimized for the complexity of the hospital system, the variability and unpredictability of the patient profile and the high demand for care.

Available

Can be assigned to one doctoral student of cycle XXXVI 

OBJECTIVES 

Main aim is the development of decision support tools for: designing and optimizing the healthcare integrated supply chain or parts of it; analyzing the relationship between workplace characteristics and health care cost containment practices.

ABSTRACT 

The replacement of the real world with a simulated one has found, in recent years, thanks to the innovations of ict technologies, wide spaces in different application fields ranging from micro-simulation of medical procedures to the support of cognitive rehabilitation techniques through serious games.
Application areas, apparently very distant, have in common many technologies and methodologies that represent the baggage of skills that the student will have to enrich in his training 

Available

Can be assigned to one doctoral student of cycle XXXVI 

OBJECTIVES 

A professional able to design software applications and contributing to research and technological innovation in order to reproduce real world events related to clinical procedures, healthcare organizational models or rehabilitation contexts for the education of health professionals or young people with cognitive or communication disorders .