Research

Training

UPMC Italy provides ongoing educational and training resources to its medical, research, and administrative professionals. Its goal is to contribute to the growth of the national health system by spreading UPMC’s know-how, and becoming a regional and national center of reference for CME, with educational events and continuing education for external health care providers.
Training programs organized, promoted and supported by UPMC Italy involve:

  • Promoting behaviors and initiatives that support the creation of patient-focused hospitals
  • E-learning educational programs for patients and clinicians
  • Developing regenerative medicine spin-offs
  • Training for graduates on how to develop research lines in regenerative medicine and transplant medicine

Research projects

UPMC Italy collaborates with local, national, and European institutions for the development of integrated health and telemedicine projects that could result in new services and advanced care for patients. UPMC Italy regularly launches national and international research projects, investing in the most valued scientific and technological areas. Research projects are another example of how UPMC Italy aims at integrating multidisciplinary skills. UPMC Italy’s most important projects include:

  • Transplantation and end-stage organ failure
  • New surgical, diagnostic and endoscopy techniques, and interventional radiology
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Clinical immunology and immunotherapy
  • Infectious diseases and molecular medicine
  • Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health care
  • Research laboratory networking and digitalization
  • Studies on the economic impact of UPMC centers on the community

Quality and innovations

All diagnostic, interventional, and laboratory procedures are performed with a vast array of high-quality equipment.
The equipment available at IRCCS ISMETT-UPMC allows the use of all the diagnostic and laboratory techniques required to assess and follow-up relevant clinical cases, and performance of high-specialty surgical and interventional procedures. At ISMETT, clinical and experimental research is also done thanks to equipment dedicated to scientific activity. The clinical governance system supports the clinical staff’s active participation in quality-control initiatives, providing the necessary tools and encouraging continual input, with special focus on appropriate care and patient safety. UPMC Hillman Cancer Center at San Pietro FBF and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center at Villa Maria are equipped with a latest generation linear accelerator and CT scan. 

Health care information technology

UPMC’s health care Information Technology (IT) team works with hospitals and health systems around the world to improve patient care and clinical research through technology. UPMC collaborate with his partners to develop and implement IT solutions that help doctors and nurses achieve better health outcomes by conveying important health information to the patient, aligning technological best practices with clinical needs, and optimizing research. Depending on his clients’ needs, UPMC experts customize, implement, and manage electronic systems that transform the way patient care is delivered. UPMC leverage the experience in Pittsburgh and around the world to provide an extensive range of services to manage complex IT systems, including assessment and strategic planning; assistance with hardware and software procurement; development of customized programs; data governance and analytics; and on-the-ground project management and technology support. UPMC has expertise in developing electronic medical record (EMR) systems focused on patient care. The process includes creating and implementing EMR systems, establishing governance, facilitating adoption and practicing informatics—the merging of systems with clinical medicine. At UPMC, every collaboration is a chance to provide solutions that make care more effective and more efficient, but also more human. Through collaboration with UPMC, the partners are positioned to improve patient care, reduce redundancies and errors, and promote real-time clinical decision support. UPMC also coordinate with large companies under contract and/or already operating information technology systems for health systems. UPMC provide these existing engagements and structures with his implementation expertise and in-country presence.

Services offered (information technology):

  • Management of vendor procurement process, including specification development, vendor pre-qualification, vendor evaluation and contract negotiations
  • IT strategy and implementation planning
  • Project management and oversight
  • EMR implementation, including assessment and strategy development, design, build, testing, conversion, and optimization
  • Data governance
  • Data analytics
  • Health information exchange
  • Specialized IT oncology services, including medical and radiation oncology EMR
  • Additional technology services, including single sign-on (SSO), closed-loop medication administration, mobile messaging, high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR), remote access, medical device integration, and application performance optimization
  • The Living Lab, a fully configured clinical information system environment that serves as a reference tool in the EMR design process