Improving Patient Care with AI: Valeria Sandei’s Intervention on Giornale Radio’s ‘Check up’ Program

On the microphones of Giornale Radio, our CEO, Valeria Sandei, participated in the program “Check up,” hosted by Lucia Tironi, explaining how artificial intelligence is a driver of innovation and change even in the healthcare sector.

“Velvet is a generative language technology that allows, through voice, easy access to all information while significantly improving many processes. For example, administrative ones, simplifying waiting lists. But not only that: it is also a valuable tool to support clinicians in patient care, information retrieval, diagnoses, content navigation, and medical record management,” Sandei states.

“Healthcare facilities are already launching AI projects in different directions. Beyond all the activities described, predictive algorithms allow increasingly targeted diagnoses in areas such as diabetology, cardiology, or oncology. These technologies, if properly applied in compliance with regulations and privacy, can improve quality of life, free up doctors’ time, and optimize work, allowing them to focus more on patient care.”

All this takes place within the European regulatory framework: “The AI Act is a regulatory framework that must be respected by both producers and users. It defines criteria and rules aimed at protecting data, intellectual property, and preventing so-called biases that may be present in these technologies.

In the healthcare sector, being such a sensitive and relevant area, it is essential to manage these technologies with rigorous criteria and full compliance,” Sandei adds, concluding, “My personal hope is that these tools will allow all doctors and clinicians to work better, more effectively, and with greater peace of mind, offering increasingly personalized support to a growing number of people. In professions as delicate as that of a doctor, artificial intelligence can only be an aid to improving clinical activity. The final decision, in fact, always remains human, as also established by the principles of the AI Act. What changes is that, thanks to AI, doctors have access to more complete information, analyzed more effectively and promptly, to make better-informed decisions.”

Listen to the full interview at minute 28:53.