Simulation and Optimization Laboratory of National Health Service (SSN) Services

(Head Prof. Massimo Maurici – Ing. Luca Paulon, PhD)

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The National Health Service (SSN) Simulation and Optimization Service (SOS) laboratory is intended as a technological and scientific support for research, through feasibility studies based on computer simulation and optimization, and possible improvements to SSN services provided by accredited providers.
Service modeling can be developed at different levels of detail to consider activities, resources employed and a three-dimensional and dynamic view of the model itself.
The main goal is to represent the assistance pathway of users of one or more providers - and the various constraints and goals to consider in identifying and designing improvement interventions, including health and economic ones.
 
Origin and projects of the laboratory
The SOS-SSN laboratory is born from the collaboration between Prof. Massimo Maurici, Eng. Luca Paulon (Engineer, PhD in Mathematical Models and Techniques for Technology and Society) and several entities operating in the Lazio Region within the SSN services.
This collaboration has been developing since 2002 through research projects on the simulation and optimization (including quality) of the SSN services that involve, in various respects, personnel from the Department of Biomedicine and Prevention and the following bodies:

• Fatebenefratelli Association for Biomedical and Health Research;
• Fatebenefratelli Isola Tiberina Hospital and Fatebenefratelli Villa San Pietro Hospital;
• Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for the Engineering (Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingegneria) of Sapienza University;
• Department of Automatic and Managerial Computer Science Engineering (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale) of Sapienza University;
• Several vaccination centers in three local branches (RMB, RMF, RMH) of the SSN (ASL) of the Lazio Region;
• Private company SilicondDev srl.

The Lazio Region, through FILAS spa, finances in 2013-2014 one of these projects, the BuS-4H, as part of the simulation and optimization of childbirth health care services and, in the 2012-14 Regional Vaccination Plan, attributes to another project, QuaVaTAR (Quality in Vaccination: Theory And Research), great value for assessing the quality of vaccine services.
The SOS-SSN lab is born precisely with the aim of not dispersing the energies and the skills so far developed in order to make them available to the SSN and to anyone who provides healthcare at any level.
 
The services of the laboratory
SOS SSN is able to implement:

• Collection of objective data on the provision of SSN services, including those derived from standard computer flows (GIPSE, RAD, CEDAP, SDO, etc.) and those relating to different performance indicators (KPIs) of specific interest;
• Collection of subjective data relating to the provision of SSN services, i.e. polls about opinion and/or satisfaction by various stakeholders, including service users and healthcare providers;
• Support and training to the encoding of the hospital discharge form to improve internal productivity;
• Support to the analysis of the organizational appropriateness of hospital admissions through current instruments (PRUO, etc.);
• Integration of data from health activities into a single database;
• Case-mix analysis;
• Analysis of alternative case-mixes in the presence of several conflicting objectives and economic and health constraints;
• Process analysis (activities and assets used);
• Cost analysis;
• Computer simulation of the services on which it is intended to intervene;
• Computer optimization of the activities and/or resources used in the services on which it is intended to intervene, in the presence of several conflicting objectives and of various constraints, including economic and health;
• Performance assessment, including cost, revenue and quality of services;
• Impact assessment of different types of intervention;
• Professional training of all stakeholders, targeted in particular at the empowerment of service users and at a more aware expression of informed consent.

Indirizzo

Simulation and Optimization Laboratory of SSN Services
Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Via Montpellier, 1, 00133 Rome (Italy)
 
Telephone and Fax (+39) 06 7259 6118
 
Web
http://biomedicinaeprevenzione.uniroma2.it/sos-ssn
 
Email
maurici@med.uniroma2.it
luca.paulon@gmail.com

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Altre informazioni sul laboratorio

Protection of woman and child
Improvement of birth centers: reduction of caesarean section and cost containment
The DLP4Health project
Resources of the lab
Internal staff
Collaborations with natural persons
Collaborations with legal entities
Attachments
Publications
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