
Run your trials inside your Italian hospital.
How ZINOS fits AIFA review, Italy's territorial ethics committees, and the rules on research use of health data.
Trial approval in Italy.
AIFA authorises the trial, and one of 40 territorial ethics committees, or a national committee, gives the opinion.SourceAIFA, list of territorial committees, 3 November 2025; Gazzetta Ufficiale, 7 February 2023
- Protocol and dossier
- Submission through CTISSourceema.europa.eu
- AIFA assessmentSourceAIFA, list of territorial committees, 3 November 2025; Gazzetta Ufficiale, 7 February 2023
- Territorial ethics committeeSourceAIFA, list of territorial committees, 3 November 2025; Gazzetta Ufficiale, 7 February 2023
- Trial conduct
Italian rules, and how ZINOS fits.
- Electronic consent, if the ethics committee approves: eICF with audit trailSourceAIFA, Linee di indirizzo per la raccolta del consenso informato, v4
- Retrospective research: safeguards and a published impact assessmentSourceGarante, 9 May 2024 and newsletter 21 May 2024
- Public-sector cloud qualification: on-premise deploymentSourceACN cloud regulation, 27 June 2024
Where the record sits in Italy.
With on-premise deployment, AIFA and the ethics committee receive what the rules require, and the trial record stays inside your hospital.SourceAIFA, list of territorial committees, 3 November 2025; Gazzetta Ufficiale, 7 February 2023
- Hospital information system
- Laboratory system
- Imaging and pathology
- Identity and access
- Site operating system
- Data hub
- Local AI node
- Audit trail
Scoped access
- Ethics committee
- AIFA
- Sponsor
- Monitor
Italian requirements, mapped to ZINOS.
| Requirement | Rule | ZINOS capability |
|---|---|---|
| Ethics opinion before start | Ministry of Health decree, 26 January 2023SourceAIFA, list of territorial committees, 3 November 2025; Gazzetta Ufficiale, 7 February 2023 | Approval tracking in the site file |
| Electronic consent | National consent guidelines, v4, May 2026SourceAIFA, Linee di indirizzo per la raccolta del consenso informato, v4 | Tablet eICF with audit trail |
| Research without consent | Privacy Code, Art. 110; Garante, May 2024SourceGarante, 9 May 2024 and newsletter 21 May 2024 | Configurable pseudonymisation, logged access |
| 25-year trial file retention | Clinical Trials Regulation, Art. 58SourceRegulation (EU) No 536/2014, Art. 58, eur-lex.europa.eu | Configurable retention and archival |
| Each row states a design fact about ZINOS, not a compliance claim. | ||

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