How to break down waiting lists, improve the times and quality of health care? It can be done (also) thanks to medical devices. Gabriele Fischerto knows this well, at the head of Johnson & Johnson Medtech Italia, a company that almost 140 years ago invented and produced the sterile suture thread and which now prepares to ferry “assistance to doctors” in the world of artificial technologies.
FISCHETTO, where is the debate with the government on expenditure roofs?
“The recent news of the provision approved in the Council of Ministers raises the 75% discount relating to the Payback Medical Devices: it seems to me a decisive action of the government in facing the payback issue on medical devices and mitigating the impact on us companies in the sector. This marks a significant step that combines industry, government and regions and looking forward, I hope the immediate reconvocation of the technical table at the Ministry of Economy This rule by implementing the reforms necessary to guarantee a sustainable health system that at the same time promotes innovation and growth for our sector and quality health for Italian citizens “
What advantages can medical technologies bring to health?
“Many. An example in the orthopedics sector: with the use of our surgical robot for the replacement of the knee prosthesis, we calculate a 20% reduction in the post-operative hospitalization, a decrease of 53% of the hospitals related to the knee related to 90 days, a lower use of pain relievers”.
What are the advantages in prevention?
“We aim to encourage prevention for early diagnosis especially for oncological pathologies. For lung cancer, for example, we support the need to invest in the low -dose CT at the population at risk: the investment is only around 3 thousand euros per year”.
Will artificial intelligence help you?
And how. In the next 5 years everything will change and everything will be faster. Just think of the search: before we had to prototype a product and test it, now digital helps us to process a lot more information in less time ».
How many companies in the medical devices sector?
It has 4,648 companies, for a total of 130,520 employees, a market of almost 19 billion between exports and internal market. There are 1.5 million devices: from abassa language to robots, to laparoscopy devices ».