A conference in collaboration with ISPE Italia and Gamp

July 5, 2018 - The digitalisation of the healthcare sector is a moving train that is moving ever faster. Italy can boast a thriving and growing sector, with investments that in 2016 alone amounted to 10 percent of total turnover. But the entire sector, from pharmaceuticals to hospitals, would need an overall project: a 'Health Plan 4.0' which, like the Industry 4.0 Plan, is capable of transforming the value chain of the entire production chain. These are some of the topics addressed during the conference "Healthcare 4.0: the challenge of digitalisation from the pharmaceutical industry to the hospital" held on 3 July at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in collaboration with Ispe Italia and Gamp.

The digital revolution in the pharmaceutical sector has already begun but in the coming years, with the entry of technologies such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, the changes will be such as to transform current medicine into truly 'personalized medicine'. The role of data and above all their use will be fundamental, bringing advantages both for the company and for patients. An epochal change that will mean an increase in the quality of increasingly personalized medicines and greater effectiveness and efficiency of the production process, as well as a generalized reduction in costs.

In this context, the contribution of research can be fundamental UCBM where the digital switchover is supported by the HANSEL (Health AutomatioN SystEms Laboratory) project. Funded by the Lazio Region under the INTESE plan, HANSEL aims at technology transfer in industrial automation for Hospital 4.0 and Pharma 4.0. Technologies supplied by numerous national and international industrial partners have been integrated with methodologies and algorithms developed by the Automation Engineering research group. Here the production realities will be able to create an ideal environment to experiment with the typical approaches and solutions of Industry 4.0. It will be possible to carry out tests to verify the functionality and compatibility of technologies and to carry out showroom and training activities, as well as for the analysis of cyber-security problems. 

*In the photo, from left: Roberto Setola, Director of the Complex Systems and Security Laboratory UCBM; Elio Catania, President of Confindustria Digitale; Teresa Mineo, Italian ISPE President and Chair of the European Affiliates; Elisabetta Pozzetti, Farmindustria.