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This
part of the research aims at evaluating, under a financial and
economical perspective, the effects of new technologies in surgery.
We enrich the analysis of the technological and technical-surgical
dimension of new technologies in surgery with the economic dimension, in
a comparative perspective with traditional medical procedures treating
the same pathologies. |
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This
analysis is carried out also using new tools such as cost management
applicable to the process analysis and the therapeutic process
assessment.
The
use in health care of an economic perspective and of tools like cost
management, may actually help find the right solution in eliminating
waste of resources and redundant activities (cost reduction), in order
to have resources ready to satisfy the new demands of patients (users).
In
following the managerial approach it is possible to reorganise health
care processes in order to increase the satisfactory outcome of the
process itself, with positive results (benefits) including service
quality and surgery performances (i.e. reduction of waiting lists,
better functioning of machinery, etc.).
The search for articulate and multi-disciplinary information is called
for, even more so, in the scenario of excellence, where new surgical
initiatives are experimented determining new mechanisms both from the
managerial and the organisational side. Consequently the need for an
integrated vision of different information arises and can be satisfied
through cost management tools. |
