Rotary Club Morimondo Abbey

[Article by Silvia Lodi Pasini published in "Settegiorni"] – Healthcare challenges in the time of AI. A topic as suggestive as it is qualified and interesting, thanks to the speaker who was a guest of the Rotary Club Morimondo Abbazia on Wednesday: Federico Riboldi, councilor for health of the Piedmont region. A highly respected politician, who for twenty years was administrator of the City of Casale Monferrato, first as District Councilor, then Vice President of the City Council, then Councilor and, last but not least, Mayor, elected in the first round in 2019. Since 2023 he has been Deputy Regional Secretary of Fratelli d'Italia. As Councilor of the Piedmont Region, Riboldi is highlighting his undoubted qualities as a politician also in the healthcare sector. And precisely about this, in the presence of Abbiategrasso Councilor Valter Bertani, delegated by Mayor Nai, he spoke on Wednesday in Morimondo, highlighting the undoubted potential that AI reveals with respect to the improvements that the sector has been waiting for for years. "The regional healthcare system manages resources worth billions of euros and involves tens of thousands of operators. The main challenges concern the reduction of waiting lists, the construction of new hospital structures and the implementation of local medicine. The PNRR funds represent a historic opportunity to strengthen the Piedmontese healthcare network, but also Lombardy and beyond" declared Riboldi. “Good local medicine is one that knows how to establish itself and is put in a position to work well and, as I have already had the opportunity to declare to the national press, I reiterate that the PNRR will give us a big hand in this." “In Piedmont we have 200 thousand performances in the evening, on Saturday and on Sunday: Minister Schillaci cites us as a virtuous example. It is a result achieved thanks to the 5000 committed healthcare workers who made the action possible. The work is still long and some lists are still too crowded, but one step at a time we are making up for years of backlog. In this, the use of AI can be of great help to us, since, by intersecting the data between bookings and cancellations, it not only allows us to avoid unnecessary and costly duplications with respect to certain pathologies, but above all it allows us to shorten waiting times".