Hospitals between present and future

What role will hospitals play in the future of the healthcare system, and how this role will be changing? Hospitals of the future will confront difficult challanges: new kinds of disease, rapidly evolving medical technologies, aging of the population and evolving budget restrictions. All features that make it difficult to foresee the hospital of the future. The aim of this paper is to analyze the different challanges that hospital have to face in a modern scenario of evolution of public health services.