Auser Valle d'Aosta, 'it is essential to activate telemedicine'

"Considering the impending crisis in which the current Italian and local health system is in" Auser Valle d'Aosta believes "of fundamental importance the activation of telemedicine in Valle d'Aosta, using innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence". It is as can be read in an open letter in which it is underlined the importance of telemedicine "in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the local health system". In this regard, the association has also developed a document. "Considering the new frontiers of medicine that uses increasingly innovative technological tools such as intelligence artificial - it is written - the opportunity must be evaluated for Telemedicine to create and train a new figure professional called 'facilitator', expert in technology and expert in the health system, with the specific task of help and assist users who are unable to log in with the its own means at the service". Furthermore, it is emphasized that "the Telemedicine is not designed to replace or save money on the current health system, but It is conceived as an addition to the current state, with the primary objective of improving its efficiency and effectiveness, to the benefit of the quality of life for all users: the idea of ​​Telemedicine was also born with the intent to overcome the current barriers of time and space and the limits of a objectively lacking medical knowledge for reasons of territorial peculiarities such as in Valle d'Aosta".