In Bergamo the spotlight is once again on the changing healthcare system: from governance to drugs to AI

In Bergamo, the spotlight will soon be back on the changing healthcare system between increasingly urgent health needs and a governance that needs to be revised to manage the push of increasingly innovative and expensive drugs and devices and with technologies such as artificial intelligence and telemedicine that are knocking on the door in a forceful way. This is the "vocation" of the second edition of Prospettiva Salute , the initiative promoted by Ats Bergamo , Areu Lombardia and Fondazione Charta , in collaboration with Anci Lombardia Salute and the Federsanità of Piedmont, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia. It is an open space for discussion between institutions, professionals, businesses and local communities, with the aim of co-designing innovative governance and assistance models, promoting good practices and strengthening collaboration between the levels of the healthcare and social healthcare system. The second edition of Prospettiva Salute - presented today at the headquarters of Agenas (the Agency for Regional Health Services) - will take place on 13 and 14 October at the Bergamo Fair , divided into 19 thematic sessions, with over 100 speakers and hundreds of professionals expected from all over Italy and abroad.

The two-day event features a rich and varied program, ranging from the major themes of healthcare governance to the most advanced clinical practices. As mentioned, there will be a total of 19 thematic sessions ranging from more strictly healthcare-related topics - such as the role of the Regions or that of supplementary healthcare up to the governance of spending on drugs and devices - to more medical-scientific ones or those linked to new technologies that are becoming established such as telemedicine and artificial intelligence, but also to sports and prevention. Each session will be built as a space for dialogue and co-design, with the participation of national institutions, regional representatives, academics, healthcare companies, foundations, the third sector and the business world. An international session is also planned, in which it will be possible to listen to the contributions of professionals from European companies. Among the new features, there is also the launch of the Premio Progetti Prospettiva Salute, an award that will promote the best digital health solutions implemented by public and private healthcare companies in Northern Italy. Prospettiva Salute will promote operational solutions capable of improving efficiency, access and socio-health integration. The awarded projects will be published in a leading scientific journal; everyone will be guaranteed publication in an online book, with distribution on the institutional websites of the organizers. Space will also be given to the progress of the experimental projects launched in the 2024 edition and the presentation of the pilot projects of 2025, the result of the meeting between the business world and the public realities of the health and social health world.

For Massimo Giupponi , General Manager of Ats Bergamo, Prospettiva Salute expresses the “vocation” of Ats Bergamo to “involve local, national and foreign stakeholders, with interesting Public-Private meeting points, to create concrete and feasible projects, promoting the support that new technologies are and will increasingly be able to give us. The goal is always the well-being of the community, the common thread that led us to structure this path.” Giulio Siccardi, Acting General Manager of Agenas, instead underlines how “the participation of entities such as Atalanta Calcio and the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo demonstrates how crucial it is to address the issues of prevention and health in every phase of the life of citizens and patients”. For Massimo Lombardo , General Director of Areu Lombardia, we must continue to "look with great interest at Prospettiva Salute as an important opportunity for discussion between those who work in the world of healthcare. This year we are putting the spotlight on transplants: a topic that is too often underestimated. The Lombardy data for 2024 speak clearly: 881 transplants from deceased donors and 51 from living donors. Growing numbers, which confirm the efficiency of the system but also call for the collective responsibility to promote the culture of donation". While for Francesco Conti , President of Fondazione Charta, with the second edition of Prospettiva Salute "we wanted to put the role of the Regions in the governance of drugs and medical devices at the center of the discussion, a crucial topic for ensuring sustainability, equal access and innovation in healthcare systems. The dialogue between institutions, healthcare professionals, businesses and the important presence of patient associations is essential for building shared and truly operational models." Finally, for Paolo Franco , Councilor for Housing and Social Housing of the Lombardy Region, Prospettiva Salute, "it is a project that must have moments of synthesis on what has been done and start with new initiatives. Also as the Department of Housing and Social Housing of the Lombardy Region, we are working and will bring to Bergamo during Prospettiva Salute in October the many initiatives that, as a Region, we are implementing to respond with pragmatism to the housing emergency".