Intercept the need earlier. Guide it towards the right pathway.
In little-diagnosed conditions, the problem is not only finding the patient. It is connecting signals, professionals and centres in good time.
The point is not increasing accesses indiscriminately. It is activating the appropriate people towards the appropriate pathway.
Late diagnosis often arises from connections that do not happen.
The patient may not recognise the signals. The physician may encounter few cases in their own experience. Information may be fragmented. The specialist centre may be distant or little known.
In rare, complex or underdiagnosed conditions, improving the pathway means working simultaneously on awareness, diagnostic suspicion, educational tools, centre mapping and referral methods.
Screening and early activation do not replace the clinical evaluation. They serve to make the encounter between need, professional and specialist pathway more likely and more timely.
Identification of the steps in which delays, dispersion or failure to refer to the specialist are generated.
Content and campaigns aimed at citizens to increase knowledge of the signals and encourage dialogue with the healthcare professional.
Materials and activities aimed at physicians and other professionals who can intercept the need early.
Content, non-diagnostic decision algorithms, checklists and validated educational materials to support the recognition of cases to investigate.
Identification of the facilities and professional networks relevant to the condition and the territory.
Definition of the useful steps to direct the patient towards the appropriate professional or centre.
Collection of the information foreseen by the project and initial guidance, without replacing the clinical evaluation.
Support in managing the organisational activities foreseen by the programme and in connecting with the centres involved.
Monitoring of the steps from the campaign to interest, from interest to contact and from contact to the activation foreseen by the project.
Merqurio can integrate the HCP community and the DottNet database, digital campaigns, scientific information, medical content, surveys, helpdesk, agenda and relationships with specialists and centres.
The previous Referral Program Merqurio already included educational campaigns on rare diseases, support for diagnostic suspicion, centre mapping and involvement of professional networks. This new page extends that capability by including screening, organisational pre-triage and early activation in a single measurable pathway.
