Health Dossier in Italy: Elements for Reflection, What’s New, What Are Possible Improvements

Abstract

In recent years the European Union and Italy are calling for a new healthcare attitude in response to the strong growth of health needs; eHealth may be a tool to facilitate change in a view of connected health; in order to properly manage information, it is necessary to realize a substrate of data, information, and knowledge, shared among all the actors in the social and health system, to obtain a holistic view of the most relevant business processes. We applied the method of use cases to define the functional requirements of a platform for continuity of care. As an example of application, we present an analysis of the Italian FSE (health dossier) and discuss its limits and its evolution.