VERONA (ITALPRESS) – Healthcare needs data to optimize operations, govern innovation and improve the overall system of care. But what tools and methods can be used to collect these data for optimal use at the technical level? And how can these “numbers” be transformed into useful information for the NHS? To answer these questions, the Italian Association of Clinical Engineers is offering its 4th National Meeting “What Data for Technology Governance in Healthcare” (Dec. 12-13, Verona, Chamber of Commerce), a two-day event of dialogues and insights developed by AIIC with the collaboration of all system stakeholders and with the inaugural participation of the mayor of Verona, Damiano Tommasi, Callisto Marco Bravi (General Director Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata – Verona), Massimo Pulin (President Confimi Sanità ) and Guido Beccagutti (Confindustria Dispositivi Medici).”The AIIC Meeting traditionally wants to delve into a specific topic related to our profession,” specifies Lorenzo Leogrande, president of the IV AIIC Meeting. “This year in Verona we have chosen to focus attention on the importance of the data most directly related to the management of technologies, the authentic heritage of our daily activity, and how these can be central and supportive for the governance of the individual Health Care Company and, consequently, of the NHS. The questions we wish to answer are numerous: how can data from equipment support strategic decisions in technological innovation, helping to optimize operations, govern innovation, and make innovation consistent with care pathways and real health needs? Why is the information obtained crucial to the operational management of a hospital facility? How can we effectively integrate all the information making it useful for the central decision-making level as well? Through the speeches of authoritative speakers in the field and the analysis of present and future scenarios, we wish in Verona to define a reference path that can be useful to better address the continuous evolution of the health care system.” “The Meeting is part of the set of AIIC activities with its own specificity,” stresses Umberto Nocco, president of AIIC. Clinical engineering for years has been developing a reflection that involves all the technological and innovation hubs that invest the NHS, because we know that the improvement of national healthcare passes precisely through the ability to bring all these paths back to a single place of governance. That is why today the in-depth study on data is part of a homogeneous and coherent global pathway that our Association is pursuing, always in close collaboration with all other professionals and with national and regional agencies. “The Verona Meeting is divided into four sessions. 1st session – What data for governance? With the participation of Simona Ravizza (Corriere della Sera), a representative of the Health Planning Office of the Ministry of Health, and Enrica Giarmoleo (Agenas); 2nd session – Regions and healthcare data, with Roberto Toniolo (Azienda Zero Veneto), Nicola Amadori (Human and Instrumental Resources Sector, Infrastructure, Health Technology and HTA Area, Emilia-Romagna Region), Adriano Leli (Azienda Zero Piemonte, President FARE), Marco Niccolai (Tuscany Region); 3rd session – Clinical engineering: Quality of information and its use at the local level, where the experiences of AIIC members using data collected through CMMS will be presented, providing feedback on the quality and efficiency of the information and its use. The fourth and final session of the meeting will present the work of clinical engineers and lead to the development of an AIIC position paper intended as an association guideline on how data should be integrated and used in a systemic way. The day will also include an international lecture offered via video link from the United States, by Binseng Wang (BSI), among the founders of the American College of Clinical Engineering. The AIIC event will open as early as the afternoon of Thursday, Dec. 12, with nine technical workshops that will delve into solutions and best practices inherent in the Meeting’s focus theme.
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