Moratti: “Clinical engineers protagonists of the technologically advanced system”

“The importance of applying biomedical technologies to support care is evident today and will be increasingly so in the near future. The adoption of the Health Technology Assessment, a scientific approach that allows you to assess the impact that a technology could have in a specific context and to determine the priority of the interventions, already guarantees today that the technological and human health resources are assigned to the most efficient sites in the provision of services. And the Lombardy Region strongly believes that among the ‘new’ professionals involved in the processes is The importance of the clinical engineer is unquestionable, who will play an absolute leading role in the panorama of this new healthcare that the Lombardy Region will build for its clients as of now “. So Letizia Moratti, Vice President and Councilor for Welfare of Lombardy, in a long message that opened the 21st National Conference of the Italian Association of Clinical Engineers (Aiic) in Milan. Among the topics dealt with also the consequence of funding on health thanks to the NRP: “They immediately appear evident – said Moratti – and will contribute not only to modernizing the building and technological infrastructure of our health and social and health structures, but will determine a real revolution Copernican of our organizational systems, which will guarantee a greater capillarity of services in favor of the citizen, who will often be able to use them directly at their home or near it, thus facilitating that access to the health system that still sometimes appears more an obstacle than a right “. Words also taken up by Umberto Nocco, president of Aiic, who in his inaugural speech of the event – to which more than 1,500 specialists are enrolled – recalled that the profession of clinical engineer is one of the centers of gravity of the digital ecosystem of health Italian, “a figure who no longer deals solely with single solutions ni, networks or equipment, but contributes as a protagonist to the conscious creation of the interconnected technological pillar on which to develop the entire building of the National Health Service “.