About the Authors

Rosa Gini

rosa.gini@ars.toscana.it

Affiliations Agenzia regionale di sanità della Toscana, Florence, Italy, Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Martijn J. Schuemie

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Paolo Francesconi

Affiliation Agenzia regionale di sanità della Toscana, Florence, Italy

Francesco Lapi

Affiliation Società italiana di medicina generale, Florence, Italy

Iacopo Cricelli

Affiliation Genomedics, Florence, Italy

Alessandro Pasqua

Affiliation Genomedics, Florence, Italy

Pietro Gallina

Affiliation Unità Locale Socio Sanitaria Padova, Padua, Italy

Daniele Donato

Affiliation Unità Locale Socio Sanitaria Padova, Padua, Italy

Salvatore Brugaletta

Affiliation Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale Ragusa, Ragusa, Italy

Andrea Donatini

Affiliation Assessorato Politiche per la Salute, Bologna, Italy

Alessandro Marini

Affiliation Zona Territoriale Senigallia, Senigallia, Italy

Claudio Cricelli

Affiliation Società italiana di medicina generale, Florence, Italy

Gianfranco Damiani

Affiliation Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Mariadonata Bellentani

Affiliation Agenzia Nazionale per il Servizi Sanitari Regionali, Rome, Italy

Johan van der Lei

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Niek S. Klazinga

Affiliation Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

Genomedics is a commercial company, and authors IC and AP are employed by this company. Author FL is also a consultant for this company as well as a consultant for Agenzia regionale di sanità della Toscana. Author MJS is no longer an employee of the Erasmus Medical Center of Rotterdam and is now employed by Janssen Research and Development LLC, which is a commercial company. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG PF FL GD MB. Performed the experiments: RG AP DD SB AD AM. Analyzed the data: RG AP. Wrote the paper: RG MJS MCJMS NSK. Developed software program: RG AP. Reviewed the manuscript: RG MJS PF FL IC AP PG DD SB AD AM CC GD MB JvdL MCJMS NSK.