Ferrari, new diagnostic centre with artificial intelligence
Carmaker strengthens health welfare, offering employees the opportunity to have examinations for prevention and treatment with state-of-the-art equipment
Magnetic resonance imaging, axial tomography, mammography and X-rays are among a list of diagnostic examinations that often require very long waits. To book them with the public health service. No longer for those who work at Ferrari, who to do them will have more comfortable latest-generation equipment, with low radiation doses and image acquisition times halved, thanks to software integrated with artificial intelligence. The car manufacturer has decided to strengthen its welfare, focusing even more on the health and well-being of its people. And not only that. In the Diagnostic Centre that opened yesterday, prevention and advanced diagnosis services will be provided both to the more than five thousand employees and to the territory, in some specific cases. In fact, a three-year agreement is in the pipeline with the Modena Local Health Authority to offer free mammography screening to women living in the municipalities of Maranello, Formigine and Fiorano to strengthen cancer prevention. Reporting will then be entrusted to Ausl specialists. These are examinations for which there is great demand, so much so that in 2026 alone, in the three municipalities involved, up to 8,300 will be provided.
For Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna, 'it is a concrete example of co-prosperity: it combines skills, resources and innovation to generate and share value between companies, institutions and the community. We have created in record time, less than two months, a structure in close collaboration between the public and private sectors. It is a project born for people and thanks to people, which has left us with important lessons. For this reason, I like to remember that it is not so much the objective of a work that counts, but what you become by realising it'. The management of the centre is entrusted to Med-Ex, Ferrari's historical medical partner, which uses the most advanced technology, such as Philips instrumentation. And Roy Jakobs, CEO of Philips, also stresses that the choice is strategic for the company because "Ferrari is synonymous with speed, precision and performance, values in which Philips also fully recognises itself. This project demonstrates how the combination of our leadership in innovation, solid execution capability and people-centricity can accelerate progress in healthcare, strengthening prevention, enabling earlier diagnosis and expanding access to high quality care".
The centre is also a candidate to become an epidemiological study centre thanks to the data pooling activity carried out by Med-Ex, and will offer remote clinical documentation analysis services (second opinion) in collaboration with the most accredited Italian public medical centres. Mattia Altini, General Director of Azienda USL Modena, speaks of 'a public-private partnership that strengthens the public system, because it takes on significant costs and allows resources to be reinvested in innovation, services and competitiveness. And this is exactly the type of partnership that the health system needs'.
For the equipment it is equipped with and for the collaboration with the territory, it is a unique centre in our country, which stems from the importance that Ferrari, with its attention to the quality of production spaces, the ergonomics of workstations, the careful use of natural light, and greenery as an element of wellbeing, has wanted to give to the health and wellbeing of its people. Also economic, if we think of the competitiveness bonus that in 2025 reached 14,900 euro for every employee in Italia, study grants, school textbook reimbursement, and the summer centre. All-round health and well-being have always been a staple, but have become a real priority since the Covid era. Welfare was born in Ferrari with the imprint of Enzo Ferrari and has continuously evolved, also through much medical prevention, for over 30 years. The Diagnostic Centre reinforces that health welfare that finds its expression in Formula Benessere, the programme that also includes an in-depth annual check-up that in 2025 was provided to over 4 thousand of the 5 thousand employees, and in Formula Benessere Junior, which offers medical assistance to employees' children. Here, too, the numbers are very high, so much so that more than 1,000 visits were counted in 2025.
Back at the centre, the equipment is state-of-the-art and features software with Artificial Intelligence integration. There is the Total Body MRI, the Spectral Computised Tomograph, the Mammograph with Tomosynthesis, the Digital X-ray with intelligent collimation and the DEXA Bone Densitometer. They all guarantee the highest standards, reducing radiation exposure, with more precise, faster and safer diagnoses. The Centre's peculiarity lies not only in its innovative dimension, but also in the fact that Ferrari will not retain any profit, because one of its objectives is to return value to the territory and promote the growth of local skills. The profit generated by the activity, for Ferrari's share, will in fact be reinvested in training activities for medical and technical personnel, as well as in scholarships for young healthcare professionals.
