Authors:
Rosa Marina Donolo
1
;
Paolo Collarile
2
;
Ilaria De Maria
3
;
Marta Donolo
4
;
Enrico Filippi
5
;
Maria Rizzo
6
and
Domenico Spagnolo
7
Affiliations:
1
Le Belle Imprese S.r.l., Rome, Italy
;
2
Public Health Care, Unit n.3, Prevention Department, Gemona del Friuli, Italy
;
3
San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital, Complex Operating Unit, Oncology Department, Rome, Italy
;
4
LUISS University, Management and Enterprise Department, Rome, Italy
;
5
Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
;
6
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Trento, Italy
;
7
National Superior Institute of Public Health, ISS, National Centre of Chemicals, Rome, Italy
Keyword(s):
Spatial Data Science, Geographic Information System (GIS), Health GIS, Immuno-Oncology (I-O), Clinical Epidemiology, Clinical Governance.
Abstract:
The purpose of this project is to exploit the potential given by the connection of two fields apparently distant in which research is recently making very rapid progress: Immuno-Oncology (I-O) and Spatial Data Science. The connection of these two fields has led the research group to propose the building of an I-O Geographic Information System. In section 1 of this paper, we explain the advantages of linking I-O and Spatial Data Science, in section 2, we explain the purposes and the objectives of the project, in section 3, we describe the phases of the Geographical Information System (GIS) implementation and in section 4, we indicate some main issues and future perspectives. In particular, in section 3.1 we describe some preliminary steps in the building of the project’s database such as the collection of the Italian I-O Network Projects and the I-O excellence centres.