Alberto Sanna got his Nuclear Engineering degree at Politecnico di Milano in 1991. He is involved in healthcare process re-engineering projects at Scientific Institute H San Raffaele (HSR) since 1989, when he joined for completing his degree thesis on automation in production of radiopharmaceuticals in the Nuclear Medicine department.

In 1991, after the degree thesis, he was in charge of automation projects in the Nuclear Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine departments. The projects included designing and realizing robotic workcells that would be used in Patient/Operator safety and/or high throughput critical processes.

From 1992 to 1996, he was assigned to the Information Technology department, where his robotics experience was merged with process analysis and Information System analysis, design and implementation.

From 1996 to present, he has been in charge of Laboratory Information System and Process Technologies and in charge of The Healtech Group. The Healtech group is a team of engineers aimed at developing and engineering safe, secure and effective health process models and systems within the more general framework of a Patient-centric hospital re-engineering process. In particular, he is presently in charge of inter-service (Laboratory and Pharmacy) process integration projects, inter-hospital (Laboratory/Pharmacy and Clinical Ward) process integration projects, hospital-territory integration projects (laboratory report delivery in territory, on top of public internet infrastructures) and disease management decision support system.

He has been involved in various European R&D project (5th and 6th framework programs):

  • Since June 2001, Project manager of DRIVE: Drug in virtual enterprises, that is dedicated to the realization of a vertical integration in the pharmaceutical supply chain from manufacturers to bedside, on top of the e-commerce infrastructures;
  • Since 2003, Project Manager of PIPS: Personalized Information Platform for Life and Health Services (IST 507019): an e-health integrated project, aiming at the provision of innovative services to the citizen in his/her daily life. Services are personalized and based on preventive/predictive medicine, ranging from drug compliance to continuity of care and impact on life styles;
  • Since 2003, Healthcare Partner of PRIME: Privacy and Identity Management in Europe (IST 507591): an integrated project in the area of trust and security, aiming at the realization of a multi-sector and large scale-sustainable approach to privacy and identity management
Since 1996 he is an active expert in the European Standardization Body CEN TC 251 Health Informatics WGIII - Safety Security and Quality, in which he is the project leader of the SAFE-ID work item “Safety procedures of identification of Patients and related objects”, approved September 19, 2000. He is active in other international scientific associations and in ISO TC 215 Health Informatics WGIV on Security.

He is active in publishing/presenting activities in more than 50 national and international congresses about automation, information technology and e-commerce topics in healthcare and he is co-inventor in two patents aimed at healthcare process innovations.

He has recently been appointed as a Professor of Dependability of Information Systems by the University of Milan, Department of Information Science.