Maneuver, exams by the family doctor as spirometry and ecg to cut waiting lists

maneuver, news also regarding the exams that you can do from family doctor. Go to the study of family doctor and be able to do a electrocardiogram or one spirometry. And in cases of necessity, being able to perform these exams directly at home always thanks to the general practitioner. Soon it will be possible and this, in addition to providing a more targeted assistance to the patient, will also allow to reduce waiting lists as the general practitioner may have ad hoc tools available to perform first-level diagnostic tests.

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The novelty comes from the last draft of the maneuver, which allocates 235 million to the need for medical equipment. The goal is, in fact, «to improve the process of taking care of patients and to reduce the phenomenon of waiting lists». Already by the end of the year, the Ministry of Health, in agreement with the Regions, will set the parameters to draw up a plan on the needs and then activate the transfers to the Regions.

A turning point, as Health Minister Roberto Speranza makes clear: "It is – explains La Stampa – tools with a low cost of up to 1,500-2,000 euros, but which would allow us to investigate some situations directly in the study without starting the patient directly reservation by means of Cup of one specialist or an assessment that is perhaps more complex and expensive "and would be a way to" contribute to attack the waiting lists».

Moreover, the undersecretary Sandra Zampa announced, "the Ministry of Health has started a reconnaissance of the mammography in Italy and intends to ask the State-Regions Conference for the 2 billion earmarked for health care buildings and technologies to be destined primarily to improve this equipment ".

Very satisfied i general practitioners: "It is an important signal – says the secretary of the Federation of general practitioners Fimmg, Silvestro Scotti – because it is the first time that in a budget law an ad hoc investment is made for general medicine, recognizing its central role in the territory ».

But what will change in practice? «Diagnostic tools such as the one will come to our studies spirometer to measure respiratory capacity. With this simple examination – he explains – we will be able, for example, to make a timely diagnosis of a respiratory disease such as Bpco, widespread among smokers and the elderly and often not diagnosed, with savings in terms of therapies and hospitalizations ". Not only: «We can also have dermatoscopes, for the early diagnosis of skin cancer, ed electrocardiographs to carry out electrocardiograms».

But the novelty is also another: «These new devices will be connected to our smartphones and this will allow us – says Scotti – to put the data on the network and share them for example, if necessary, with the reference specialist». Furthermore, they will be 'mini' tools: "Thus the doctor's bag is enriched, which inside will no longer have only a stethoscope but also specific diagnostic tools, and this will allow us to carry out these first exams even directly at the patient's home, in case of bedridden or elderly subjects. We could also have new ones holter BP is glucometers to be delivered to patients and whose data can be sent directly to the doctor's database for constant patient monitoring ". The next step, he concludes, "is to define agreements with hospitals and the territory, to make telemedicine consultations with specialists effective".

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