PRECIPITATING FACTORS FOR THE
REGGIO EMILIA VNA:
The optimal clinical pathway for our province often moves patients from one
of our 10 rural hospitals to the hub hospital, and then back to their peripheral
hospitals or even to their homes. This clinical pathway requires increased
collaboration among geographically distributed clinicians, each of whom needs
access to the complete patient record.
Reggio Emilia was asked to resolve a multitude of small IT data requests, highly
specialized, mostly media or specialized data sets—complex, yet too small to be
handled economically one at a time.
Regulatory—European legislation requires ready availability of all data—upon
patient request. Growing patient interest in acquiring this data leads to the need to
store it intelligently.
Evidence-based medicine and research puts increasing demand on availability of
original data.
BRAINSTORM: VNA—in one elegant sweeping solution—could resolve all
these needs—economically and expeditiously!