Analysis: How Technology Is Transforming Healthcare
How Technology is Transforming Healthcare
Angela Carter
HCS/212
December 19, 2013
Linda Morrow
“How Technology Is Transforming HealthCare”
Technology in healthcare has been increasing in an alarming numbers over the last decade. It has become a race to treat more patients rather than to treat the issue and educate the patient to prevent further issues. Doctors years ago, spent more time educating their patients then the doctors do today. There appear to be more students entering medicine for the money rather than the love of the practice. Every minute spent educating a person on their health is a step closer to preventing the current issue and others to affect the patient. There is an old saying that says “sharing is …show more content…
caring.” If the doctors are not sharing this information it makes society wonder if they even care.
The article that was selected is called “How Technology Is Transforming Healthcare”.
This article highlights many devices in healthcare we use today, how we benefit from them and the path technology is leading us to. There is attention getting phrase in the beginning of the article that stated the world has been “Schumpetered.” This term is in reference to Joseph Schumpeter. (1) He is an Austrian economist that popularized the term ‘’creative destruction” to denote transformation that accompanies radical innovations. There will always be an individual using their unique mind for creation. The question is, “Does this invention help society, hinder society or is it a combination of the both?” This article does a great job sharing the opinion many others share as well. It captures the reality behind the glory of technology in …show more content…
healthcare. This article can be summarized in a four word phrase listed in the article. It states that society has been radically transformed but creatively destroyed. It speaks about how medicine has transformed and has been so conservative to the point of being ossified. It points out how the government is confused about approving a medicine for the way it is developed or being commercially approved. It mentions the overuse of one of the most popular devices in technology, our cellular phone. Cell phones are also often used to relay medical information and make suggestions when the doctor is away from the patient. The article also highlights many of the electronic gadgets the doctors and nurses are dependent upon to perform simple procedures even vital signs. Medical professions very seldom take even a manual blood pressure. Technology in healthcare is in the process of digitizing humans. This means that we can monitor the activity of the body in action with a computer. It suggest that eventually printing organs will be a reality at the rate we are moving. The most interesting part of this article spoke about genome sequencing. There are 6 billion letters of a person’s genome sequence that can be read with a digital device. This is everything we need to know about the structure, the operation process to tell us how that person’s body functions. It can be referred to as the instruction manual of an individual.
There is no doubt that society has evolved an enormous amount in the last two decades.
Society has become addicted to the gadgets that were created to help us. This addiction has grown from trying to create a device that will help to learn more about the human body. A device that can help us to learn about an individual. We are all created differently. This means that everyone’s body cannot be treated the same. Technology should never be uses as our sole source of information. However, it should be used when the doctors are unsure how to cure or treat a person do an unknown disease the body has encountered. Genome sequencing is revolutionary breakthrough in the healthcare industry. We may all need to depend on this at one point in our life. (2) The article “How Technology Is Transforming Healthcare” comes to a conclusion saying, “We definitely need medicine to be Schumpetered, to be radically transformed.” Technology is healthcare is necessary. However, education is also vital to our survival. Several of the infections and diseases we come in path with can be prevented. There are also some that cannot be prevented but we can lower our risk of allowing them to invade our bodies. It is important to educate society that being healthy starts with our lifestyle. Technology used in healthcare should be a bonus. Allowing it to be our sole source of information is setting us up for
failure.
References
(1)- Topol, E. (2012). The Creative Destruction of Medicine. Basic Books. Retrieved from http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2013/07/12/how-technology-is-transforming-health-care?page=1
(2)- Topol, E. (2012). The Creative Destruction of Medicine. Basic Books. Retrieved from http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2013/07/12/how-technology-is-transforming-health-care?page=3
Angela Carter
HCS/212
December 19, 2013
Linda Morrow
“How Technology Is Transforming HealthCare”
Technology in healthcare has been increasing in an alarming numbers over the last decade. It has become a race to treat more patients rather than to treat the issue and educate the patient to prevent further issues. Doctors years ago, spent more time educating their patients then the doctors do today. There appear to be more students entering medicine for the money rather than the love of the practice. Every minute spent educating a person on their health is a step closer to preventing the current issue and others to affect the patient. There is an old saying that says “sharing is …show more content…
caring.” If the doctors are not sharing this information it makes society wonder if they even care.
The article that was selected is called “How Technology Is Transforming Healthcare”.
This article highlights many devices in healthcare we use today, how we benefit from them and the path technology is leading us to. There is attention getting phrase in the beginning of the article that stated the world has been “Schumpetered.” This term is in reference to Joseph Schumpeter. (1) He is an Austrian economist that popularized the term ‘’creative destruction” to denote transformation that accompanies radical innovations. There will always be an individual using their unique mind for creation. The question is, “Does this invention help society, hinder society or is it a combination of the both?” This article does a great job sharing the opinion many others share as well. It captures the reality behind the glory of technology in …show more content…
healthcare. This article can be summarized in a four word phrase listed in the article. It states that society has been radically transformed but creatively destroyed. It speaks about how medicine has transformed and has been so conservative to the point of being ossified. It points out how the government is confused about approving a medicine for the way it is developed or being commercially approved. It mentions the overuse of one of the most popular devices in technology, our cellular phone. Cell phones are also often used to relay medical information and make suggestions when the doctor is away from the patient. The article also highlights many of the electronic gadgets the doctors and nurses are dependent upon to perform simple procedures even vital signs. Medical professions very seldom take even a manual blood pressure. Technology in healthcare is in the process of digitizing humans. This means that we can monitor the activity of the body in action with a computer. It suggest that eventually printing organs will be a reality at the rate we are moving. The most interesting part of this article spoke about genome sequencing. There are 6 billion letters of a person’s genome sequence that can be read with a digital device. This is everything we need to know about the structure, the operation process to tell us how that person’s body functions. It can be referred to as the instruction manual of an individual.
There is no doubt that society has evolved an enormous amount in the last two decades.
Society has become addicted to the gadgets that were created to help us. This addiction has grown from trying to create a device that will help to learn more about the human body. A device that can help us to learn about an individual. We are all created differently. This means that everyone’s body cannot be treated the same. Technology should never be uses as our sole source of information. However, it should be used when the doctors are unsure how to cure or treat a person do an unknown disease the body has encountered. Genome sequencing is revolutionary breakthrough in the healthcare industry. We may all need to depend on this at one point in our life. (2) The article “How Technology Is Transforming Healthcare” comes to a conclusion saying, “We definitely need medicine to be Schumpetered, to be radically transformed.” Technology is healthcare is necessary. However, education is also vital to our survival. Several of the infections and diseases we come in path with can be prevented. There are also some that cannot be prevented but we can lower our risk of allowing them to invade our bodies. It is important to educate society that being healthy starts with our lifestyle. Technology used in healthcare should be a bonus. Allowing it to be our sole source of information is setting us up for
failure.
References
(1)- Topol, E. (2012). The Creative Destruction of Medicine. Basic Books. Retrieved from http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2013/07/12/how-technology-is-transforming-health-care?page=1
(2)- Topol, E. (2012). The Creative Destruction of Medicine. Basic Books. Retrieved from http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2013/07/12/how-technology-is-transforming-health-care?page=3