Hospital 4.0 and Its Innovation in Methodologies and Technologies

The hospital is a center of healthcare services that, nowadays, can be considered as a highly technological corporation. In this work we introduce the Hospital 4.0 frame-work, discussing the innovation it would bring both at the methodological and technological level. Transforming the hospital organization from a multi-functional center where the patient is treated by different therapeutic units to an integrated center able to provide the patient with a personal care service, involving the patient as an active subject, represents the innovative challenge for the forthcoming years.