The EPIC project in Savona: an example of dissemination of an EU-AIM project at Municipal level

We present a local dissemination of EPIC, a project which has been devised to support health and social primary care by an information system. One key point of the EPIC project was a standardisation effort at European level, providing a standardised basis for a management system based on client needs for planning and man power control. Whilst EPIC has been designed as a general community information system, the main EPIC applications focus on the care of the elderly. Savona is a middle size Italian town with a high elderly people percentage and has already had an experience of integration of health and social care within an Italian project. It has therefore been regarded as a suitable site for the dissemination of EPIC. The EPIC application solved some of the information problems which emerged during the validation of the previous Italian project, such as the definition of the requirements; the collection, processing and retrieval of the clinical/social data; the definition of responsibilities and relations of the operators