Fondazione San Raffaele is a private non-profit foundation that runs one of the most important Italian hospitals (San Raffaele Hospital in Milan) and several outpatient facilities in Milan, as wel as in Italy and abroad. HSR serves also as a University in the fields of Medicine, Psychology, Philosophy and Communication; as a very active Scientific Institute in the aerea of basic research in biotechnology (genetics) and in clinical research; and as a very active Science Park to enable technology transfer and tight co-operation with pharmaceutical, medical and technological industries.

The Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor, through the activity of the CeSREM (“Centro Studi San Raffaele Rischi Errori in Medicina”, transl. “San Raffaele Center for Clinical Error Risk Studies”), has joined with other Italian hospitals, in collaboration with the Tribunal of Patient Rights, to the experimentation of the “Safety Card in the medical practice and assistance”. Moreover it takes part, together with 9 other regional hospitals in the project “Quality and Health in Lombardia Region, development projects of a system of accreditation for the Excellence in the Healthcare structure of the Lombardia Region”, in collaboration with the Joint Commission International – JCI.
Since 1997, HSR added among its significant assets a specific Unit oriented to Information Technology applications in health domain. This Unit, called e-Services for Life and Health is specialized in the delivery of services internally to the hospital infrastructure (person identification systems, process re-engineering) as well as oriented to innovative domains and disciplines (interactive television, educational games). The unit has been active in the 5th FP, being the project coordinator of DRIVE (DRug in Virtual Enterprise) IST-12040, and in the 6th FP, being the project coordinator of PIPS (Personalized Information Platform for life and health Services), as well as participating to the projects PRIME (IP) and ANGEL (STREP). In FP7 the unit is participating to the project MASTER (IP).

role in the project: HSR is together with the hospital in UNIVR responsible for the patient safety definitions, providing medical competence of all kind thoughout the project. It si also responsible for validation of the developed methods on surgical phantoms and animals and involved in surgeon training.