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Academic and Medical Relationship
The University of Pavia (Lombardy, Italy) is one of the oldest universities in the world. It has at present 9 faculties, about 1000 teachers and about 25,000 students. It includes, among others, the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursery and other healthcare professions, biotechnologies, and engineering.
The Department of Computers and Systems provides most of the teaching support to the curricula of Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.
The San Matteo Hospital Trust is a polyclinic hospital with more than 40 clinics covering almost any medical specialty, a total of about 1000 beds, and a medical staff of more than 2000 professionals.
The departments of Oncohematology and Pediatric Oncohematology have more than 50 beds, respectively. Their isolation rooms host a total of about 60 patients/year, most of them during pre- and post- bone marrow transplantation periods.
The University of Pavia and the San Matteo Hospital closely cooperate in the organisation of the activities for the students of the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursery and other non-medical, healthcare related professions, such as biotechnology. Moreover a number of students of engineering, in particular biomedical engineering, have the opportunity to spend their apprenticeship period in the structures of the San Matteo Hospital.
One of the key-points of the mission of the San Matteo Hospital is the concern with the new possibilities offered by biomedical technology and ICT.
The strategic plan of the San Matteo Hospital in this field aims at a new hospital organization, basically:
In particular, mobile technology may become the pivot of this new hospital concept. It would make possible to connect almost any site of the hospital and any phase of the medical practice and healthcare activity to any other, regardless of their nature, location and typical features. The same would held for all the teaching activities related with the medical practice.
In this perspective, the collaboration between the San Matteo Hospital and the Department of Computers and Systems, where specific competences on biomedical technology and ICT are available, has a key, strategic role.
The Department of Computers and Systems provides most of the teaching support to the curricula of Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.
The San Matteo Hospital Trust is a polyclinic hospital with more than 40 clinics covering almost any medical specialty, a total of about 1000 beds, and a medical staff of more than 2000 professionals.
The departments of Oncohematology and Pediatric Oncohematology have more than 50 beds, respectively. Their isolation rooms host a total of about 60 patients/year, most of them during pre- and post- bone marrow transplantation periods.
The University of Pavia and the San Matteo Hospital closely cooperate in the organisation of the activities for the students of the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursery and other non-medical, healthcare related professions, such as biotechnology. Moreover a number of students of engineering, in particular biomedical engineering, have the opportunity to spend their apprenticeship period in the structures of the San Matteo Hospital.
One of the key-points of the mission of the San Matteo Hospital is the concern with the new possibilities offered by biomedical technology and ICT.
The strategic plan of the San Matteo Hospital in this field aims at a new hospital organization, basically:
- filmless (digital radiology and digital medical images)
- paperless (computerized patient records)
- wireless (WLAN and mobile ICT solutions)
In particular, mobile technology may become the pivot of this new hospital concept. It would make possible to connect almost any site of the hospital and any phase of the medical practice and healthcare activity to any other, regardless of their nature, location and typical features. The same would held for all the teaching activities related with the medical practice.
In this perspective, the collaboration between the San Matteo Hospital and the Department of Computers and Systems, where specific competences on biomedical technology and ICT are available, has a key, strategic role.
