Digital technology pervades our lives in an increasingly organic way and we at Tredipi are always at the forefront regarding the development of IT solutions that transcend IT security alone, also reaching the field of security. In particular, today we talk about Health Technology Assessment when we refer to a multi-dimensional and disciplinary approach to carry out various types of medical analysis through a very specific digital technology, in order to keep costs low but increase the quality of the intervention, thus managing to reconcile the patient's needs to obtain a successful intervention for his health, without weighing too much on the national health system.
According to the World Health Organization, any medical and surgical device - which can also be a vaccine or a procedure - intended to guarantee the improvement of health or completely save the patient's life is considered a health technology.
According to this vision, the objective of the Health Technology Assessment is to be able to evaluate the potential effects of digital technology - by putting together analysis models to also evaluate the real ones - from the moment of introduction. In particular, they take into account the values relating to safety and costs, as well as the social impact, ultimately leading to drawing up an objective opinion accompanied by facts on what the benefits and savings have been that the entire life cycle of digital technology has brought about on the economy and the national healthcare system in a moment of profound crisis for the sector.
According to the directives of the Ministry of Health, the AIFA and the AGENAS, all HTA procedures must be regulated by these same bodies, in order to evaluate the benefits and negatives of this system, in order to catalog the probability of adverse effects, the onset of resistance or tolerability and ease of use.
The concept of Smart Health derives from HTA, i.e. that of intelligent healthcare. To find an application for this concept, however, it is necessary for the devices to be within the Internet of Things, or internet of things, applied to medicine. In this sense, the objects that are used to carry out the various cures or treatments must be equipped with sensors that communicate with each other and respond to doctors' external stimuli, in order to help them diagnose a disease earlier and better. All this is only possible through the use, even massive, of elaborate algorithms and a well-developed artificial intelligence which can, in some cases, even predict future events such as a heart attack or a sudden illness.
In this sense, the Italian Government has decided to allocate the first 8 billion of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan for healthcare, in order to strengthen the national healthcare system and enhance care for all those who need it, both in the primary and intermediate phases, while still taking care of those who are most fragile and in need of an eye to be able to best safeguard oneself from any type of emerging or future unexpected event, full of various types of unknowns.
In this sense, the PNRR aims to develop local assistance and innovation, where the technological modernization of both public and private healthcare facilities are in first place. It becomes essential for all those who offer medical services to find the best artificial intelligence systems applied to smart health, so as to be ready when the funds become available to be invested.
For healthcare, the PNRR provides for a global improvement in the services provided in the territory, pursued through the strengthening and creation of various territorial facilities, capable of providing home assistance and telemedicine, with remote assistance. The most important measures, however, remain those aimed at strengthening health equipment and infrastructurefrom a technological point of view, investing in new techniques for the treatment and diagnosis of pathologies, such as those of HTAand Smart Health.
In this sense, key points will be established for scientific research which will be based not only on the development and research of new methods of medical intervention but also on the preparation of training programs for staff.
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