Centers

Advanced technology in health and well-being

team-item

Director

Alberto Sanna

MORE

Armenise harvard

Since 1997, Ospedale San Raffaele added among its significant assets a specific research unit oriented to Information Technology applications in the health domain. Today the Advanced Technology in Health & Wellbeing (previously called eServices for life and health) is a research center of Ospedale San Raffaele in Milano (Italy), whose mission is to design, develop and demonstrate the ethical, scientific, economic and technological feasibility of innovative personalized services aiming at promoting well-being and informed choices in daily life. The center for Advanced Technology in Health & Wellbeing are a suite of personalized and trusted added value services delivered on state of the art web-based information platform. The center aims at lowering the invisible cultural, organizational, economic and environmental barriers that hamper stakeholders’ effort towards healthier, greener and fairer behaviours in everyday life, both for Individuals and business/social actors.

Organization

Designing and implementing technologies capable of collecting user information, ensuring data privacy and security, and delivering personalized experiences requires a wide range of expertise. For this reason, our center fosters a unique multidisciplinary environment where researchers from diverse backgrounds collaborate closely.

Our team includes engineers, developers, technicians, designers, nutritionists, and psychologists, all working together to advance innovation in the fields of health and wellbeing.

Research

Its unique environment has been field of international ICT research projects in 5th, 6th. 7th and now H2020, European Commission Framework R&D Programs and Italian/Lombardy Region R&D Programs since year 2000, nurturing intense cross-disciplinary collaborations between medical and healthcare professionals, designers, engineers, scientists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs across a number of life and health-related fields:

  • SMARTer and SAFer HOSPITAL R&D Program for Patient Safety and Healthcare Process Efficiency: analysis, design, development, pilot testing and technology transfer of innovative safe, efficient & trusted hospital healthcare processes based on pervasive Information Technology, Automation & Robotics, Modeling & Simulation in cooperation with leading industries in the medical, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, information technology markets, scientific research institutions and policy makers  - started 1993.
  • HEALTHier and GREENer LIFE R&D Program for Disease Prevention and Well-Being Promotion: analysis, design, development, pilot testing and technology transfer of innovative personalized and pervasive e-Services-based processes and business models in the Health and Well-Being behavioral economy (ranging from adherence to prescribed pharmaceutical therapies to promotion of healthier lifestyles in nutrition, physical activity, health edutainment and social relationship) in cooperation with leading industries in the pharmaceutical, food & beverage, multimedia, information technology markets, scientific research institutions and policy makers - started 2003.
  • HEALTHier and GREENer CITY R&D Program and Living Lab for the City of the Future: e-Services re-engineering of the urban environment in the perspective of Internet of Services and Service Robotics, to enable and promote personalized healthier and more eco-sustainable Citizen lifestyles in domains such as automotive and mobility, real estate and hospitality, leisure and tourism, culture and art, energy and critical infrastructures - started 2013.
  • HEALTHier and GREENer COASTAL ECOSYSTEM R&D Program and Living Lab for the Sea of the Future: e-Service re-engineering of the coastal environment in the perspective of Internet of Services and Pervasive Service Robotics, to enable and promote sustainable development of the Blue Economy - started 2023.

In our research lab, we created NEFFIE - the NeuroAesthetic Photography Platform - to experiment and explore a fragment of the future today. This innovative experiential laboratory brings together Art, Photography, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, NFTs, and the Metaverse, offering a unique space to study how visual arts can influence emotional and cognitive processes.

The seminar will feature a direct experience with NEFFIE's photographs, designed to trigger complex emotional-cognitive responses.

As we deepen our expertise in Digital and Visual Arts, we are challenging the NEFFIE platform in new application domains, including a clinical trial aimed at evaluating its theragnostic potential for the early prediction of Alzheimer's disease.

NEFFIE represents a bold step into the future of neuroaesthetic technologies, where art and science converge to redefine our understanding of human perception and interaction.

Since 2018, our research center has had the opportunity to collaborate on two prestigious HORIZON Europe projects, EDIT and PHIRE. We have been dedicated to creating the communication and dissemination material tailored to the public or stakeholders, contributing to the spread of acquired knowledge and promoting innovation in the field of diagnostic imaging and nanomedicine.