The Italian Association of
Clinical Engineers (AIIC) on Friday launched a Social Manifesto
at its 23rd national conference underway in Florence to promote
the implementation of technological innovation to guarantee the
right to health as enshrined by the Constitution, targeted
investments for the benefit of all, the use of healthcare
technologies as a tool for proximity healthcare and a review of
training for healthcare workers using new technologies.
The Manifesto, titled 'Technologies as a Social Challenge: 8
Goals for Technologically Advanced Healthcare', is the result of
a collaboration with Cittadinanzattiva and aims to draw the
country's attention to the challenges that need to be addressed
for balanced, timely and useful system development.
"We have worked together in order to bring together the
sensitivity of professionals in the field with that of civic
activism," commented Stefano Bergamasco and Giovanni Guizzetti,
who led the AIIC team that worked on the Manifesto. "We felt it
was necessary to offer a concrete perspective for work following
our 2023 conference, a perspective of clear commitments that
might be a platform for socio-political engagement for all those
who care about the real implementation of technologies to serve
health needs."
Elio Rosati, Cittadinanzattiva Lazio coordinator who oversaw the
creation of the Manifesto, explains that the association has
"long been present on the issue of healthcare technologies and
the digitization of healthcare, and we are convinced that we are
facing a pivotal moment: a correct and 'social' implementation
and diffusion of technological innovation can make the
difference and allow even today's less performing territories to
offer healthcare services of the highest quality. But for this
to happen, the eight points contained in the Manifesto, which in
our opinion are the indispensable steps to achieve a new Italian
healthcare, must be implemented".
For AIIC President Umberto Nocco, these are "inalienable steps
that we intend to take together, including also in the immediate
future, because the messages that have been launched by our
conference are intended to remain over time, creating positive
action at the level of central and regional institutions,
representatives of the professions and the whole of healthcare."
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