Requirement for Assessment of the Technology on Healthcare. An Opportunity for Start-ups and Spin-offs
Requirement for Assessment of the Technology on Healthcare. An Opportunity for Start-ups and Spin-offs

Author(s): Anselmi Luca
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management, Accounting - Business Administration
Published by: ASERS Publishing
Keywords: healthcare services; assessment of technology; start-ups; Health Technology Assessmen
Summary/Abstract: One the most important issues in the healthcare system is the definition and application of a systematic methodology to assess the effects of the introduction of new technologies. This process implies a significant degree of uncertainty arising from issues related to subjectivity and exogenous factors. In particular, this research project aims at defining and implementing an appropriate methodology to relate the incremental contribution arising from the use of innovative technologies to the costs associated with their introduction. The context and scope of our analysis are quite complex because they need pre-determined evaluation algorithms associated with the difficulty of representing, by using a standardized process, the variety of cases considered, with the peculiarities of the organizational fields and with the edge of discretion in the diagnostic process. As a consequence, from a methodological point of view, the approach of our research is based on the necessary empirical testing of hypotheses associated with a careful process of interpretation aimed at verifying the consistency of the results obtained against the investigation context and historical and doctrinal continuity. The research was completed by experts, scholars and researchers based on multidisciplinary knowledge in order to catalyze the different skills that may be involved in a contextual and systematic study of health technologies, thus offering a scientific contribution to theory-building and impact several technology application areas. New start-ups sponsored by Hospitals, Universities, Regions and Local Health Authorities may conduct assessments of how technology investments impact on healthcare organizations. The business model could be based on the perceptions of the providers and users of these technologies, on the actual use and degree of implementation of technologies in connection with the skills to be developed for a full exploitation of potential applications, and on the increase of (expected and actually achieved) performances compared to instrumental and procedural alternative solutions, by using assessment processes calibrated according to preset cognitive purposes.In healthcare, assessment of technical innovation could represent an opportunity to: a) pursue quality improvement of the healthcare services and economic sustainability and b) to disclose interesting business opportunities for startups and spin-offs.

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