South Korea Paves The Way For Digital Healthcare Innovation

(ANSA) – FLORENCE, MAY 10 – Innovation, sustainability,cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, telemedicine andEuropean regulations are just some of the topics to be addressedduring the 23rd conference of the Italian Association ofClinical Engineers (AIIC), which opened in Florence on May 10.The event, running at the Fortezza da Basso under the title'Innovation and accessibility: the governance of healthtechnologies as a social challenge' until May 13, aims to launcha professional, cultural and political message linkinginnovation to the Constitution, since technology is not only atool for improved healthcare but also necessary to ensure theright to health enshrined in Italy's fundamental Charter.AIIC's 23rd conference also coincides with the 30th anniversaryof the association founded in 1993, at the dawn of thetechnological revolution in health care delivery."The Association is celebrating its 30th anniversary and it isdoing so with a conference with breakthrough content, becausethe focus is always on the technological innovation available tohealth care and never on the fact that these technologies canfulfil the right to health care in a much broader way than inthe past," said AIIC President Umberto Nocco."AICC wants to draw the attention of institutions, experts,clinicians and policy-makers to the fact that making the besttechnologies available across the territory represents a realsocial challenge involving patients, clinicians, researchers,public managers, companies and institutions," he added.Roughly 2,000 people are expected to attend the conference inFlorence.A selection of the best projects developed by researchers andteams in the field of health technologies will also receive theAICC awards recognizing industry excellence, while Innovationawards will be presented to the most innovative technologies inengineering and biomedical fields submitted by the manufacturingworld.Further, the 'Social Manifesto' on technologies, created inpartnership with Cittadinanzattiva, will be launched.The fact that "technology can also represent a critical problemwhen it is not accessible to all, not properly managed and notintegrated into the pathways and specific context of reference,is a new matter for attention that, as insiders, we feel needsto be highlighted", said Conference President Lorenzo Leogrande.(ANSA). #J-18808-Ljbffr