Portrait of Angela Ironi

Dr. Angela Ironi

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Dr. Angela Ironi serves as the head of the Sharon district of Maccabi Health Services. In the last decade, she held senior management positions at the Maccabi headquarters as the head of the Nursing and Medical Centers Department and as the founder and director of the Tele-Health Center. Dr. Ironi led innovative projects in the field of telephone monitoring and remote care for different populations (e.g. pregnant women, chronic patients, etc.). She also led significant strategic programs dealing with home hospitalization, innovative models of community care, implementation of medical service applications and more. During the COVID19 period, she was a member of the National Forum for the Fight against the Plague. She also serves as the Israeli representative of IMIA – the International Association for Medical Informatics.

Education

Ph.D.
Department of Management, Bar Ilan University
.M.P.H
Department of Public Health, Ben Gurion University
B.A.
Society and Life Sciences, College of Judea and Samaria
.R.N
Nursing, Schienbrun School of Nursing,

Teaching Areas

Telemedicine, tele-nursing, digital health, medical and nursing informatics, implementation of technologies in health systems.

Research interests

Telemedicine, Tele-nursing, COVID-19, Telemedicine, home hospitalization, community care models.

Selected Publications

Shoer S, Karady T, Keshet A, Shilo S, Rossman H, Gavrieli A, Meir T, Lavon A, Kolobkov D, Kalka I, Godneva A, Cohen O, Kariv A, Hoch O, Zer-Aviv M, Castel N, Sudre C, Zohar AE, Irony A, Spector T, Geiger B, Hizi D, Shalev V, Balicer R, Segal E. A Prediction Model to Prioritize Individuals for a SARS-CoV-2 Test Built from National Symptom Surveys. Med (N Y). 2021 Feb 12;2(2):196-208.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2020.10.002. Epub 2020 Oct 10. PMID: 33073258; PMCID: PMC7547576.
Irony, A., Magnezi, R., Vilensky, Y. (2021). Self-Efficacy Effects of Maccabi Telcare Center Diabetes Mellitus Intervention: Do Men and Women Benefit Equally? Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, DOI: 10.1891/RTNP-D-20-00083
Shapiro Ben David, S., Cohen, D., Karplus, R., Irony, A., Ofer-Bialer, G., Potasman, I., Greenfeld, O., Azuri, J., & Ash, N. COVID-19 community care in Israel—a nationwide cohort study from a large health maintenance organization. J Public Health (Oxf). 2021 Mar 5 : fdab055. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdab055
Irony A, Abu-Hussain H, Nigel Y, Nachman A. From fragmentation to integration – the \"unseen\" patient 3600. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2019;19(4):259. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.s3260
Porath, A., Irony, A., Borobick, A.S., Nasser, S., Malachi, A., Fund, N., Kaufman, G. (2017). Maccabi proactive Telecare Center for chronic conditions - the care of frail elderly patients. Isr J Health Policy Res. 11;6(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s13584-017-0192-x.
Shapiro Ben David, S., Shamai-Lubovitz, O., Mourad, V., Goren, I., Cohen Iunger, E., Alcalay, T., Ironi, A., Greenfeld, S., Adler, L., & Cahan, A. (2023). A Nationwide Digital Multidisciplinary Intervention Aimed at Promoting Pneumococcal Vaccination in Immunocompromised Patients. Vaccines, 11(8), 1355.
David, S. S. B., Shamai-Lubovitz, O., Mourad, V., Goren, I., Iunger, E. C., Alcalay, T., Irony, A., ... & Cahan, A. (2022). 98. A nationwide intervention to improve pneumococcal vaccination rate among immunocompromised individuals. In Open Forum Infectious Diseases (Vol. 9, No. Supplement_2, pp. ofac492-176). US: Oxford University Press.
fects of Maccabi Telcare Center Diabetes Mellitus Intervention: Do Men and Women Benefit Equally?. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice.
lus, R., Irony, A., Ofer-Bialer, G., Potasman, I., ... & Ash, N. (2021). COVID-19 community care in Israel—a nationwide cohort study from a large health maintenance organization. Journal of Public Health, 43(4), 723-730.