[The new culture of dematerialized health]

With the Electronic Health Record, which has been provided by law by the Italian State, all health data and information regarding the citizens are dematerialized and move within regional networking eHealth graphs, which are interoperable at the national and then European level. Data generated by the interaction between a patient and a doctor - through a visit, a diagnostic exam or a hospitalization - are shared at the speed of light among all the professionals who are interested in the patient's care pathway, and then with the citizen, in a process producing his/her empowerment.This personalized information, stored and enriched online throughout one's life, makes it possible to reconstruct and actualize the clinical history of the assisted person's, through the demolition of space and time barriers. The interaction between the doctor and the assisted user is thus supported by the communicational power of Health networks, generating powerful data fluxes along the care pathway and serving the purposes of assistential continuity.