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XIVth SISMEC National Congress - Book of Abstracts - Vol. 21 Supplementary Issue 1
2026PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES (PROMs) IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Role and Challenges of the Biostatistician in Elevating the Patient’s Voice
24-25 SEPTEMBER 2026 – PARMA
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing how we evaluate clinical outcomes and quality of care.
In this scenario, Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) represent a valuable and still partially unexplored resource. The congress brings together Italian experts to explore the potential of AI applied to patient-centric data, focusing on predictive methodologies, integration into care pathways, and ethical and clinical perspectives.
The intersection of PROMs and AI offers significant opportunities, but it also poses methodological, ethi-cal, and practical challenges that require a critical and rigorous contribution from biostatisticians. The pro-gram pays special attention to data quality, model validation, reproducibility, transferability into clinical practice, and national and international research projects. -
XIIIth SISMEC National Congress - Book of Abstracts - Vol. 20 Supplementary Issue 1
2025INNOVATIVE DATA AND METHODOLOGIES: A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF MEDICAL STATISTICS
9–12 SEPTEMBER 2025 – PAVIAArtificial Intelligence has now forcefully entered the medical world. So far, data analysis has fall under the domain of Medical Statistics — but that is no longer the case.
Traditional approaches to data analysis are now facing competition from new technologies that often outperform them when it comes to managing large databases, generating data, and integrating diverse data sources.
But that is only a part of the picture.
The actors have changed, methodologies have evolved, yet the core interest remains the same: understanding the causes of diseases, evaluating treatment effectiveness, improving diagnostic strategies, and identifying new ones — working from Big Data as well as from small-scale datasets.
• How can we address methodologically the emerging challenges?
• How can we translate omics-based evidence into population-level insights?
• How should we address the issue of transportability?
• How do we integrate data from multiple sources?
• How should synthetic data be handled?
• Is it merely a matter of methods and tools, or also a question of ethics?This Congress will offer an opportunity for professional growth, thanks to the contribution of leading experts who will help us explore these questions. It will also provide a valuable forum for discussion among professionals who work daily as statisticians and epidemiologists.
Guest editors of the volume were Simona Villani, Università degli Studi di Pavia and Rosaria Gesuita, Università Politecnica delle Marche, under the supervision of the Editor-in-Chief, who retained the final decision on the publication.
