CARDIOTECH- TeCnologie Avanzate per l’innovazione e l’ottimizzazione dei pRocessi DIagnOstici, Terapeutici E di training dedicati alla gestione Clinica, interventistica e riabilitativa dei paziente affetti da sindromi coronaricHe acute.

The aims of this project will be to establish a patient-centered process for cardiology and interventional cardiology to optimize the processes of diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and training through the development, implementation and testing of the following innovative technologies: - Automatic Identification System through the patient's active implementation of new technologies like RFID and QrCode, for patient’s automatic mapping (intra and extra hospital) in order to avoid mistakes in patient identification and exchange of identity, allowing its rapid geographic location, the automatic and fast data covering the full medical history of each patient; - New systems for remote control of diagnostic and therapeutic processes of high complexity for the management of critical cardiac patients, ie integrated systems that automatically acquire patient data (electrocardiogram, laboratory-troponin, etc-, with Xray data) entered into a software which, starting from international flow chart, will design a diagnostic-therapeutic strategy, optimized in the individual patient and in the single local environment. This automatic control system of a healthcare professional that will be created by building appropriate software, will be very useful especially in hospitals / ER with low cardiac expertise. It might be useful also for checking the quality of care delivered and to reduce the malpractice. - System for continuity of care of cardiac patients and for controlled access and distributed to health data. We will create a hardware / software through to create a “virtual doctor” for the individual patient that will accompany him for life (before and after hospitalization) with direct access to all data in different formats (pdf, video, audio, DICOM, AVI, MPEG, etc.), to have access to images (coronary angiography, CT, endoscopy) in time real. The system will work on the web for rapid, controlled, ubiquitous access of patient data. - Device front-end innovative, technology-based multi-touch and voice and gesturerecognition, for cardiac imaging, cardiology diagnosis and prognosis; These innovative imaging systems will be the backbone of the station equipment (Cardio Control Station) which will be done in the Campus of Germaneto and that will serve to integrate the different languages and different formats of existing data for individual patients. - New technologies in interventional cardiology (angiography integrated system); The project will involve research and development of new innovative technologies such as design and implementation of a new angiographic arch "U" type, an injector to visualize the arterial tree using CO2, a system for magnetic navigation of catheters. - Design and assembly of a control station (Cardio Control Station) that would virtually duplicate a room located at a distance in an innovative project for remote control of Cath Lab with active mentoring and management of remote images in order to "help" peripheral centers in interventional cardiology procedures. - Virtual reality system for interventional cardiology planning and remote tutoring. - Integrated system for monitoring the rehabilitation process of the program of health education and food and follow-up. Technologies for diagnosis, therapy and training in interventional cardiology will be integrated into a service center called Cardio Control Station (CCS), to locate at the new campus Germaneto in Catanzaro, who already has advanced technologies and suitable areas. The cardiac rehabilitation support systems will be located at a service center at Villa del Sole of Catanzaro.