“Understanding what is the recipe for the successful introduction of innovative technologies in the healthcare sector”. This – he explains Leandro Pecchia, full professor of Biomedical Engineering and president of the Master’s Degree Course of the same name at the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, on the occasion of stage in UCBM of Build Your Future, the meeting program created by Intesa Sanpaolo. – the objective of the Global Health Observatory presented today in Rome, on the occasion of the UCBM stage of Build Your Future, the meeting program created by Intesa Sanpaolo. The Observatory, supported by the European Commission and the Ministry of University and Research, will be directed by Pecchia.
“What we observe – he continues Pecchia – is that we have many technologies that are coming out but these technologies do not always reach the real needs of citizens and patients. We, therefore, will study what are the conditions that have favored the introduction, and therefore the greatest possible impact, of these technologies in successful cases and we will try, if possible, to formalize and help in their transfer to other realities where these conditions do not yet exist. We will deal a lot with innovative medical devices, artificial intelligence, therefore digital health for the transformation of the reorganization of the healthcare system which otherwise remains unsustainable, and then also with Biotech Deep applied to health and well-being. We will do all this with a very careful eye on global trends, therefore not on a national or regional scale, but by comparing Italian excellence with what we see in other countries that are doing very well, trying to understand how we can bring this stuff uniformly across the country and into those regions of the world that need support.”
How did the idea for this Observatory come about?
“The idea comes from my work experience because during Covid I was the innovation manager of the World Health Organization of the Department that dealt with infection control and management, a department that was very busy. Working there I I realized that there are gaps between innovation and the real need of citizens and, therefore, this is an effort to fill those gaps While we were trying to understand and develop Covid therapies and devices individual protection, we saw that there was a lot of research, a lot of innovation, on the one hand but on the other the needs remained uncovered. In a moment of crisis, as often happens, I saw and experienced firsthand how much disconnect there is between study, research, innovation and real world needs. This is why the observatory aims to understand to what extent we can fill these gaps.”
