The cardiovascular diseases with 217 thousand deaths per year (data from the Higher Institute of Health), they represent the leading cause of death in Italy. “However, access to care for these patients across the country is unfortunately not homogeneous.” Thus to Adnkronos Salute the president of the Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology (Sici-Gise), Francesco Saia, on the occasion of the debate ‘Health to the Fullest – Alongside patients between prevention, innovation and sustainability’, promoted by Abbott today in Rome. The meeting, which was held at the Roman Aquarium, was attended by the main health stakeholders, including representatives of the institutions and the academic world. Among the topics addressed ‘The importance of accessible health’ including prevention, patient journey, multidisciplinary approach, resource efficiency, technology and innovation; and ‘Best Practices and new challenges’ awaiting the NHS.
“There are still many unsatisfied needs of patients – explains Saia who is also responsible for Interventional Cardiology at the Sant’Orsola hospital in Bologna – even in a panorama of high-level therapeutic offerings like ours. Some pathologies, with a view to therapy tailored to the patient, require a certain type of equipment, including some devices, the purchase of which is however very constrained because they represent a heavy expense item which must rightly be kept under control as clinicians, together with administrators and politicians, to govern the introduction and implementation of these tools and manage their sustainability because only this can allow us to make very accurate diagnoses and therefore to establish personalized therapies”.
On the treatment front “we have recorded on several occasions disparities in the diffusion of the most modern techniques and technologies for the treatment of these patients on the national territory – underlines Saia – It is certainly very important to guarantee equal access for all”. Like Gise “we work on what are currently the barriers that prevent this from occurring. There are many possible interventions at different levels and certainly the key to solving the majority of problems is to have an interlocution between the professionals and the institutions that be continuous and address all the possible problems that currently prevent homogeneity of care, from tracking through appropriate coding, to reimbursements, to quality assessments of care”, he concludes.
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