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Health and Technology
Majorly, the changes being experienced in the health care sector are due to technology development. In the last few years, a great transmission has been made in the field. The new high-tech innovations for health are producing a big range of benefits for the sick and the medical professionals as a whole.
Principally, the current year is of great importance for every health care provider given the fact that all medical records need to become electronic. It has been made a rule for every health care provider to demonstrate the use of electronic medical records by 2018 and those who will not comply will face legal action. The electronic medical records solutions are utilized from market leader Epic by most healthcare providers. It has been a significant workload for them, but it comes with a long-term benefit which is limitless. When all medical searches, treatment choices, and patient history is electronic, it can be analyzed and calculated in real-time to make better diagnoses.
The most challenging thing in the health sector currently is providing patient care in rural and remote geographical areas. The challenges are due to few medical professionals. This makes the patients who live in long distant locations to move longer distances to receive health care or the doctors to make long trips to go and treat patients which is tiresome and time-consuming.
American Well and Health Presence has provided solutions to patients since they can connect with doctors from their homes (Holden 2010). These solutions are not available everywhere due to various state laws, but where they are available, the benefits are substantial. Patients from far distances save on travel costs and emergency room visits. Doctors can, therefore, treat more patients using virtual solutions as remote consultations are not suitable for every medical condition. They are useful for many conditions or follow-up consultations.
Apart from providing patients with easier access to medical professionals, the new emerging technologies are using technology to consult and abide with other medical expert and peers. Medical consults is common in health care where professional meets with another medical professional to review patients case and discuss treatment, procedures, and diagnoses (Holden, 2010). The widest spread solution is using video and the web conferencing and to provide medical professionals with the ability to meet in person with other experts where they share patients records and charts. This allows medical professionals to consult with anyone in the world. Furthermore, they are used to bring local medical experts in the operating rooms during the procedures.
Moreover, the consumer market which is rapidly growing utilizes wearable mobile devices that track and monitor your health. Other wearable devices monitor a patient’s heart rate, sleep patterns, types of exercise and caloric burn. It is not the only fast-growing mobile device markets and also contains mainstream manufacturers such as Samsung and Nike. The importance of these is that it has made it easy to monitor heart rate and activity than ever before and it is projected to advance in the next few decades. Consecutively, this idea allows individuals to set goals to improve their health.
Patients utilize tools to create the social communities (Ruiz, 2012). They can read about the signs of their illnesses and the excellent treatment; this even makes it hard for doctors who steal from patients by giving them the wrong drugs and diagnoses for the incorrect diseases to earn their living. Further, the internet also enables people to come together as most cases of ill health never reach clinical records because the affected can potentially find solutions and solace online.
Genbank together with other comparable databases of data on the structure of atoms is helped by the new data on quality working (Street, 2013). This kind of science makes sense of which qualities are powerful in various prosperity and disease states. Some quality activities are more insistently insightful of their response to treatment. The clinical tests now performed are x-pillars, blood tests, and tissue examination under a magnifying lens.
The innovation determined builds the quantity of particular sorts of infections and the quantity of treatments to be made in a segment (Street, 2013). This makes it easy to curb the spread and treat diseases effectively. Therefore, lowering the pain patients go through.
Technology is changing health care for all ends of medical spectrum leading to empowerment of the patients. They have easier access to the doctors though the technology. It may also open new possibilities to how diagnoses are handled and proper treatment. Provision of wearable health care creates awareness and motivation to improve health. These innovations have therefore led to improved medical attention and standards currently and probably it will be more efficient in future.
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- Ruiz, J. G., Mintzer, M. J., & Leipzig, R. M. (2012). The impact of e-learning in medical education. Academic Medicine, 81(3), 207-212.
- Street, R. L., Gold, W. R., & Manning, T. R. (2013). Health promotion and interactive technology: Theoretical applications and future directions. Routle