ROMA (ITALPRESS) – It is the local health company of Salerno to win the eighth edition of the Lean Healthcare Award 2025 with a telemedicine project for the management of the stroke. The prize of Italian public and private health excellence was withdrawn during a ceremony at Palazzo Brancaccio in Rome.
With the project “Telestroke: the network of acute ischemic stroke” the ASL Salerno is the reality that this year has better represented the spirit of the Lean Healthcare Award, whose aim is to promote an efficient patient-friendly health. This award, now a reference point for the sector, enhances the adoption of the Lean and Value Based methodology, aimed at reducing waste and inefficiencies while increasing the value offered to the patient.
The topics covered in the 2025 edition (which counts 250 projects submitted by 93 companies from 11 regions) range from hospital-territorial integration to emergency management, through technological innovation, the safety of care and the introduction of AI in healthcare.
The ASL Salerno has developed an organizational model of digital health based on the equity of access and timeliness of the intervention, revolutionizing, with its project, the path of the patient with time-dependent pathology, integrating teleradiological solutions and innovative processes that have made the patient more rapid, safe and coordinated. But there are numerous projects presented and arrived from all over Italy, ranging from the optimization of the path of the patient to the digitization of the processes, from the socio-sanitary laboratories of the future to the organizational efficiency of the logistics and the materials.
Among the projects in the race, also the development of wearable and intelligent technology for patient-centered care and the management of complexity in the surgical planner through Artificial Intelligence. In the gala evening, which took place at Palazzo Brancaccio in Rome, the winners of the main categories and special prizes were also awarded.
With “Network Surgery” the ASL 3 of Nuoro was ranked first in the category Integration Sociosanitaria, which includes Integration Projects Sanitaria Member who produced results or are in progress. Specifically, Nuoro’s ASL 3 has redesigned the territorial surgical network, improving the organization of the routes and the use of resources.
First place in the Lean Companies section at the Hospitaller-University SS. Antonio and Biagio and C. Arrigo of Alessandria, thanks to the development of a widespread and multi-year lean model, which integrates governance and optimizes staff training. Winner of the IA & Digital section the AUSL of Reggio Emilia, with a system that introduces Artificial Intelligence in surgical planning, improving efficiency, reducing waiting lists and ensuring equity in access to care. In Rome, the Umberto I Hospitaller-University Company ranks first in the Lean Projects section with a model that sustainably reorganizes the outpatient path of the oncoematological patient, introducing standardized and shared practices that strengthen the alignment among professionals.
Finally, it is the Rhodense Territorial Health Company to win in the Lean Ideas category; a recognition for developing a system that optimizes the surgical path, integrating doctors of general medicine and using the Electronic Health Paper 2.0. “The eighth edition of the event was a great success. The appointment of Rome and the projects presented now represent a point of reference for companies in the sector: a way to see, compare and understand how and where to improve services for citizens.
“The Lean Healthcare Award – commented Alessandro Bacci, Lean Management professor at the University of Siena and scientific director of the award – was born with this spirit: enhance good practices, promote sharing of experiences and stimulate a culture of continuous improvement. In a complex health environment such as today, it is necessary to organize, prepare and engage in ensuring an effective response to health problems, affecting organizational processes to ensure an ever better and accessible health offer to citizens.”.
The ceremony of Rome is the culmination of an eight-month journey, during which the finalists worked to innovate and improve their processes, always with the aim of ensuring a health system more effective and sustainable for all. The selection of winning projects has been entrusted to a jury of about 70 general directors of public and private health companies, university professors and CEOs of the Healthcare sector. The Lean Healthcare Award 2025 is promoted by EY-Telos, in collaboration with Fiaso, Federsanità, Simm and Università di Siena.
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