Technology is a great advancement for the health fields, especially now that it is improving every day. Technology has become an important source to obtain medical information. Everyone is using technology on so many different ways. They are using it to reach “wider populations,” contact with patients, public awareness, community outreach, and any questions that you may have medically, you can chat with doctors and nurses online as well.…
Medical technology can help improve both patient and user safety, reduce medical errors when documenting patient information or using equipment, and also helping with employee job satisfaction which will in turn help the keep the staff employed at the healthcare organization. “One might not readily associate technology with work force shortage issues; however, it is an area rich with the potential for effective technological solutions.” (Larsen, Marc G. 2012) These kinds of improvements can only be achieved if a healthcare organization decides to change…
Technology has a great impact in all of the different health fields in the industry. Since technology is improving constantly the possibilities are endless as to what we can use it for. The most important part in regards to technology in Health Care is the ability to obtain very important medical information. Many different departments in the healthcare field are using technology a lot of different ways. The most common use is to reach out to the "broader populations," connect with patients virtually, and most importantly public…
According to Williams and Torrens (2010), technology is the driving force of health care. It helps in the storing and organization of patient records or information and gives access to doctors to medical records. Use of technology in health care allows better and faster diagnosis and treatments. The technology is very beneficial in overcoming communication barriers in health care. It has an impact in so many areas in the healthcare world such as economic, clinical, organization, and industrial impact as well as on patients and insurance beneficiaries, social, government and policy impact. It is a hope for a long, productive life for millions of people but it has to be properly implemented by trained individuals. Health care organizations must ensure that they hire the proper staff capable to implement it while providing security and protection of patients ' data. Proper implementation of technology allows capturing, track, record and recognizing illnesses quickly and treating them effectively. Technology lets people and communities to stay healthy by providing them access whenever it is needed. Moreover, it brings opportunities to wellness and will also be used to stabilize physiology, modify risky behaviors, design and field snap clinical trials advancing biomedical knowledge and care for individuals with health care challenges. Despite of all benefits that technology brings to…
Just as technology changes every year so does the way technology is implemented in the health care filed. Technology has greatly benefited health care in many ways from how fast a patient can be seen by a physician to how fast their medication can be in their hands ready for them to take. Technology is a tool that can be used to solve practical problems with the goal on increasing profitability. In health care this means that the more detailed and involved management becomes with new technology implementing , coordinating, planning, and simply managing all aspects of a new program or software implementation the better management will be at communicating to their staff their strategic goals for profitability.…
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Technology is the creation and usage of tools for achieving goals. In health care, technology is used for information purposes, to teach, and heal. We have computers that keep track of medical records. We have machines that can see through the human body. There are sensors that can collect data from a patient and transmit it wirelessly to a physician. There are even machines that aid physicians during surgery.…
Going back hundreds of years, we can trace the history of health care. Although it has evolved over the years, it all has a common goal; to heal those who are ill. Technology is one of the major evolutions and now plays a big role in the health care system. It helps patients to be more involved with their healthcare. They can make appointments, follow up on test results, and contact their doctors. Back then, they didn’t even have all the medicine we have now, let alone the technology. We can only imagine what is in store for the future.…
ealthcare facilities (buildings) can also be considered to be a form of technology. As with other forms of technology, physical facilities involve a mutual interaction between users of the technology and the technology Anderson & Wittwer, 2011). In healthcare contexts, the physical facilities are often intimately interrelated with the staff and other technology that the building contains (Munnelly & Clarke, 2007). Often, technology is integrated into the building itself. As with other forms of technology in healthcare, organizations spend significant sums of money on their facilities. If these funds are not spent wisely, they contribute to the rising cost of healthcare and can affect the financial or operational viability of the organization…
Being new to the health care professions I am not very familiar with most of the technologies used today in our health care system and have also been fortunate enough to not need much care beyond a checkup here and there. However, being very interested in science I know how great the benefits of medical technology advancements can be to our nation and the world. I am choosing to focus on the technology of electronic health records (EHRs) as I feel they will greatly help patients and physicians once the transition from paper records is completed. There are many articles on this topic, but I chose to use one that incorporated a bit of the new health care law that recently when into effect. That law is the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which is currently working to reform our health care system. The article The Affordable Care Act and Electronic Health Care Records: Can Technology Help Reduce the Cost of Health Care? is a good place to start when it comes to discussing desired affect EHRs could have on our health care system as well as the more likely reality. I chose this article because it discusses the costs of health care and how EHRs affect those costs.…
Discuss trend(s) that have directly impacted the U.S. population and health care over the last 50 years. Provide specific details.…
This definitely will have negative connotations for some people. Many find the technological changes to be irrelevant. Philip Darbyshire, a professor of nursing, states in a study about the matter that “Technological ‘solutions’ to health care problems are endlessly seductive and easily entrance policy and decision makers.” In his study he used CPIS (Computerized Patient Information System), which many clinics use in order to gain the patient’s basic information, surveying to see their opinions. While someone outside of the field might find these advancements tremendous and making huge beneficial steps in the medical community, they can not see the bane of it. Darbyshire explains that technological ideas might make a board member googly-eyed over how much they can save with the budget, but it can negatively affect the nurses and even patients. From Darbyshire’s study he found that the participants disliked the the system. It lacked the “...ability to capture ‘real nursing’...” This belief is a major argument against improvements. With automation, newer generations of nurses and doctors will lose critical-thinking skills. As Nicholas Carr explains in The Glass Cage, “... we’ll be compelled to adapt our own work, behavior, and skills to the capabilities and routines of the machines we depend on” (41). Despite advancements being able to make diagnoses more accurate, this can lead to a less thoughtful generation of nurses. What if a robot malfunctions, leaving a nurse to make a quick decision which could lead to life or death? While nurses now would be able to make an efficient fix, could a nurse of the future be able to change their routine as quickly? Hopefully, like pilots being told to fly manually in order to maintain their skill, nurses will keep their medical procedures…
As a young child, I tended to become ill often. The doctors blamed my weak immune system on the fact that I contracted mononucleosis and was hospitalized for two months at a young age. The consensus was that over time my immune system would improve and I would outgrow any other issues. I continued to get very ill with bleeding sores constantly lining my mouth and throat throughout my elementary schooling. I noticed my condition was drastically worsening as I ended my sophomore year of highschool. I entered my junior year chronically ill. I missed over thirty percent of the year due to being so ill. I went almost all of junior year teaching myself the information my peers were able to learn in class. I became so physically tired that even getting out of bed was exhausting. I was living with such pain that my parents decided to seek the top…
In addition, we don’t have just negative results of people’s obsession with technology. There are some good effects that are important too, like to have a comfortable life, to communicate, to have a better organized life, to change life constantly, to have a better access to learning, and better production in factories. It’s good to add that it helps in having a better equipment in hospitals.…
The medical side of technology is another scenario where medical technology is so important. Without the improving of medical instruments and machines, many people would have lost their lives. Over the years, there have been fantastic medical findings that are a result of numerous years of research.…