Restart key industrial sectors for the country's economy and development, such as the pharmaceutical sector, to prevent the crisis from continuing to endanger health services. This is the objective of 'Lean Six Sigma', the organizational method aimed at producing excellence in companies, presented in Rome by the MSD Foundation and the Italian Federation of Healthcare and Hospitals (Fiaso).
A method that combines the power of statistical data analysis in order to eliminate waste and reduce time. The partnership between the Msd Foundation and Fiaso will materialize in the future also with the launch of regional 'clinical governance' projects, or rather pilot projects in local health authorities or hospitals. "Health is an element of social and industrial policy - says Pierluigi Antonelli, president and managing director of Msd Italia - so we need to optimize processes and improve the appropriateness of services".
The project is ambitious: to promote an alliance with the institutions and transform the healthcare system according to criteria of quality and excellence. "I hope for virtuous meetings with private actors - says Giovanni Monchiero, president of Fiaso - but also for health planning aimed at triggering processes to improve company performance".
"The economic crisis – argue the organizers of the event – is undermining the competitiveness of sectors such as the pharmaceutical one. With an annual production of 25 billion euro, exports of 61%, 2.4% of annual investments and 65,000 highly qualified employees, including 6,000 researchers, the sector is being severely tested by a dangerous succession of corrective manoeuvres".
It is estimated that the impact of these measures, between 2006 and 2010, was more than 11 billion euros, and that it will be called upon to contribute, for this year alone, 40% to the recovery of healthcare resources, against a weight of pharmaceuticals on total healthcare expenditure equal to approximately 16%. "If &eg
