title: [Technology assessment and operating procedures for the technological resources in the new Community Health Service].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The main purpose of this contribution is to set today's situation of technology assessment and point to some organizing and integrative ways with the evolution concern ASL (Local Health Firm).
  
  
  METHODS
  We outline main critical processes that fix correct management of technological resource thought data available in national and international literature. We single out more common methods to quantify, evaluate, control and manage biomedical technologies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We expound decisional process that lead Viterbo ASL (Local Health Firm) to a progressive controll of tecnological resource and its management after aggregation of the five USL (Local Health Units) that constituted Viterbo ASL and describe procedures assumed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We underline the importance of full and complete information in business and decisional process. Inside the complexity of italian view, we outline an organizative solution with a low economic impact and with a high technical content.
authors.affiliation: Polo Ospedaliero Centrale, Viterbo, Italia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Manzi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goletti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bossi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grasso
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004389:Durable Medical Equipment / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data