TY  -  JOUR
AU  -  Liguori, Giorgio
AU  -  Belfiore, Patrizia
T1  -  Health Technology Assessment (HTA) 
e Horizon Scanning (HS): strumenti-chiave 
per la gestione ottimale delle risorse in sanità
PY  -  2014
Y1  -  2014-01-01
DO  -  10.1716/1422.15745
JO  -  GIMPIOS
JA  -  Gimpios
VL  -  4
IS  -  1
SP  -  26
EP  -  31
PB  -  Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore
SN  -  1122-407X
Y2  -  2026/04/22
UR  -  http://dx.doi.org/10.1716/1422.15745
N2  -  In a climate of spending review, Italy like other European countries, is showing great difficulties about the sustainability of the National Health System (NHS) because of the increasing discrepancy between limited resources and growing needs. Ensure the right to health means concretely offer services, activities and services necessary for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, but at the same time it means to ensure that such activities, services and benefits should be provided how, where and when the target population needs them, and their quality should be high. In this perspective, our country, in line with the European debate and international bodies, tends to use the health system as a real asset to contribute to the economic and social development of its territory, making it available to collaborate in the field of health and medical research with most European partners. This could favour the development and the continuous and sustainable well-being sought by the rule of law. In such a scenario, technological innovation has taken a strategic role in health setting, as the implementation of new technologies allows us to offer qualitatively better and more effective diagnosis and treatment. Innovations such as new drugs, new vaccines, diagnostic tools, procedures and guidelines, brought substantial benefits to patients and, simultaneously, allowed producers and governments to improve effectiveness, safety, efficiency and quality of care. In view of this, anyone involved in health policy faced new challenges to ensure innovative and high-quality care within the constraints of budget: this implied the birth of Health Technology Assessment (HTA).
ER  -