Telemedicine services

The investment aims to:

1. support projects enabling remote doctor-patient interactions, in particular diagnostics and monitoring;
2. create a national platform for screening telemedicine projects (in line with investment 1.3 of mission 6 component 2 - Strengthening the technological infrastructure and tools for data collection, processing, analysis and simulation);
3. Promote ad hoc research initiatives on digital technologies in health and care.

To better support patients with chronic diseases, with a focus on the over-65s, by improving their care through the use of telemedicine.

Target provincial
chronic patients to be followed by telemonitoring:

• 292 by December 2024;
• 1,915 by September 2025;
• 4,560 by September 2026.

The Autonomous Province of Trento, as beneficiary, avails itself of theAzienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari (APSS) as delegated subject.

The implementation of the NRP in Trentino fits coherently into the programme framework for sustainable provincial development, according to the policies identified in the provincial Economic and Financial Document and its Update Note.

PNRR funding of € 7,606,715.66

The Telemedicine Operational Plan has been approved (Resolution no. 712 of 28 April 2023), which, making the most of what has been developed to date at provincial level, envisages

• theimplementation of telemedicine services in the areas envisaged by the Guidelines for telemedicine services, approved by Decree-Law no. 4 of 27 January 2022, particularly for the management of patients suffering from the main chronic diseases (diabetic, cardiological, respiratory, oncological and neurological)
• full integration of the services already in place with the national telemedicine enabling platform, to ensure inter-regional operability.

Furthermore, the first version of the organisational model of the telemedicine service of the Autonomous Province of Trento was approved (Resolution no. 1167 of 30 June 2023), the main elements of which are

• consolidation of the organisational model adopted
• adoption of telemedicine when fully operational, in particular for the management of chronic patients;
• development and integration of technological solutions for all telemedicine modalities (telehealth, teleconsultation, first- and second-level telemonitoring, teleassistance);
• ensuring the use of telehealth, teleconsultation and telehealth potentially for the entire population and telemonitoring especially for patients with chronic diseases.

In June 2024, the outline of the agreement pursuant to Article 15 of Law No. 241 of 7 August 1990 was approved, to be entered into with the Lombardy Region as the lead region for the management of the procurement procedures for vertical telemedicine projects.

In April 2025, the outline of the agreement pursuant to Article 15 of Law No. 241 of 7 August 1990 was approved, to be entered into with the Region of Apulia, as the lead Region for the acquisition and maintenance of workstations and related logistics.

The 2024 target was reached and the 2025 target is on track.