Improving the skills in the diagnosis phase, treating specific pathologies in a targeted and personalized way, improving health care. These are just three of the opportunities offered by the use of technologies in the medical and public health fields. The result is a cure that is closer to the individual, with personalized therapies and devices.
The practical implications are many: mobile medical applications, software that support daily clinical decisions, up to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to support diagnosis.
"The establishment of the Institute of Digital Technologies for Personalized Healthcare within the DTI," stated SUPSI Director General, Professor Franco Gervasoni, "is an important step in supporting SUPSI's strategy for the development of the Life Sciences sector. This sector will experience progressive growth in its associated research and training activities in the coming years, particularly through the development of synergies and collaborations with other SUPSI departments and institutes through concrete projects, as well as with local public and private entities and partners."
The new SUPSI institute
"The action of the SUPSI Department of Innovative Technologies in the interdisciplinary field of engineering applied to the biomedical sector has led in recent years to the birth of multiple skills and research projects in which we have increasingly witnessed an evolution of the possible uses of technologies ”, explain from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Italian-speaking Switzerland. "The new Institute of digital technologies for personalized health care (MeDiTech) will be a specialized unit, ready to carry out training and research activities focused on the use of digital technologies to support new and personalized methods of diagnosis and treatment in the medical field- sanitary ".
On the practical and immediate side, these activities find application in the development of digital healthcare platforms and in the design of diagnostic systems, in management information systems and in the resolution of complex decision-making sequences with applications ranging from diagnostics to personalized treatment methods up dispensing of drugs.
The institute will be organized around three interdependent research areas, each led by a person in charge:
- Biomedical Signal Processing - Dr. Francesca Faraci
- Digital Health - Eng. Alessandro Puiatti
- Medical Devices - Dr. Igor Stefanini
The institute will become a regional and federal recognized center in the design and development of digital solutions and medical, diagnostic and therapeutic devices, based on innovative technologies, through a national and international network and in close collaboration with public and private entities. . By leveraging the many relationships and projects already active, the institute will be able to strengthen the existing collaborative relationships, starting from the synergies with the biomedicine faculty of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and its affiliated institutes, as well as with the 'Cantonal Hospital (EOC) and the clinics present in Ticino, as well as companies active in the sector of interest.
“The start of the activities of the new institute - explained Prof. Emanuele Carpanzano, Director of the SUPSI Innovative Technologies Department - will make it possible to grasp the best synergies between the skills present in SUPSI in the field of medical technologies and related applications. The will is to intensify collaboration with public and private partners active in this sector, creating further synergies and developing training and applied research projects, with the aim of creating concrete solutions aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of diagnoses. and medical care provided through the support of innovative digital technologies ".
