The Lombardy Regional Government, in these last years, has introduced a new organizational model for the health-care service, based on the acknowledgement of the freedom to choose between public and private facilities.Furthermore, the new regional social-health plan foresees an experiment to transform a number of public hospitals into foundations.

The group also participated to numerous European and national projects in the health-care field, a brief list follows: Co-Co, HECTOR, HANSA, STAR, Cardlink2, Remedes, RHINE – AM, KIRHA Key Indicators for Regional HeAlth, DIDE DIdactic Distributed Environment, CAROLIN Cooperative Application for Remote OnLine INteractive diagnosis,
VEPSY, CHARM, C-CARE; among them two are most significant: INTERCARE, The Interworking and Interoperability of networked services for Healthcare using Internet-based technology, and SUN2, an integrated IT system for health functionalities.

Role in Remine Project
Lombardy Region is chosen as pilot thanks to its advanced IT infrastructure and its past experience.
Being Lombardy Region the greatest one in Italy and having all territorial data, the Lombardy Region Government will locate two final pilots, one of which will be in Tuscany and regulated by an agreement with Tuscany Region.

Contact Person
Fabio Pignatelli
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