And Advancements Of Medical Technology And Its Advancements

In today’s generation technology is the key point in all of our lives. With all those new technological inventions a huge percent of those inventions refer to the medical field.

Innovation- We will strive to do things better by doing things differently, considering the complexities of the health care delivery system and a team of critical but progressive thinkers.

One technological change that may have the largest effect on our lives today is the rapid growth of medical technology development. Three main effects that medical technology has impacted our modern society are prolonging lifespan, improving quality of health care and promoting nation’s economic growth. The three stages of medical technology are review by regulatory agencies, technology assessments by insurance carriers, and review by purchasers, clinicians, and consumers. Review by regulatory agencies is the most recognized of the three stages and is administered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health by regulating pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Each product must go through a series of approvals, clinical trials, and post market surveillance protocols in order to ensure its safety and effectiveness. www.nap.edu

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.

Medical technology encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases or medical conditions that affect humans. This may included but not limited too, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. Such technologies are intended to improve the quality of healthcare delivered through earlier diagnosis, less invasive treatment options and reductions in hospital stays and rehabilitation times. Recent advances in medical technology have also focused on cost reduction. Medical technology may include medical devices, information technology, biotech, and healthcare services. The impacts of medical technology may involve social and ethical issues. For example physicians may seek objective information from technology rather than listening to subjective patient reports. A major contributor of healthcare expenditure in America is the advancement of medical technology. According to several studies it is shown that there is a correlation between the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) and money allocated to healthcare. One of the leading theories is that medical technology is growing faster than expected.

Technology permeates every domain of critical care and has contributed to rising survival rates. The technological innovation grew out of boundaries, changing all industries involved. In health care, the advancement in science and technology play an important role in almost all process from patient registration to data monitoring, from lab tests to self-care.

An article entitled, Leading Innovation in a Risk-Averse Healthcare Environment, by Michael O’Brien describes how decisions in healthcare innovation are being decided by hospital CFOs because budget plays such a large role in the ability to make health care advancements. Innovation is present on all levels, practitioners are creating new innovative medications and techniques that can boost research funding, CFOs are looking at innovative ways to restructure budgets to meet the rising cost demands and nurses and/or therapists are looking for innovative therapy applications to improve patient outcome and support successful healing once discharged from the hospital. Disruptive innovation is constantly present in medicine since this science is only a practice and is constantly evolving in the presence of new research. As a healthcare leader I encourage my peers to constantly be trying to find innovations in their practice. When a practice becomes stagnant there is limited chance for growth and an individual's motivation can be stunted. “Innovation requires that organizations let go of old work and take on new” (O’Brien, p.113)

that whatever illness befalls them, there is will be a treatment regimen that will bring relief.

Contemporary scientific progression and discourses allude to the emergence of an increasingly technological future. Implicit within this notion is the premise that emerging technologies can be used to open new frontiers that benefit and promote human advancement. Intuitively, this stipulation can be extrapolated to medicine where present technologies play a critical mantle in upholding the therapeutic and traditional aims of medical doctrine. But beyond conventional medical applications of technologies, many have begun to recognize their underlying potential for not only treatment, but enhancement of our present biological state.

After listening to Mr. Whitney, I was nervous about my professional future, considering I work in healthcare. However, after I got home and actually thought about what he said, I realize that the changes in healthcare are leading the shift towards disruptive innovation. However, disruption is necessary to get the necessary changes and improvement our healthcare system so desperately needs (M. Whitney, personal communication, May 21, 2016).

As inVentiv Health continues to grow there have been the inevitable traps that occur with a fast paced growth organization. These traps center on establishing a solid foundation of resource

As our world progresses, new technological inventions are being created to help better and improve the state of not just our environment but us as individuals. As an engineer, my job is to not only envision the next big change to lives in healthcare but to also to start engineering them. These technological advancements could be creating a personalized medicine for people that need it and in by doing so, would serve the exact purpose for the individual to which it was designed for.

In light of the various issues raised in the previous meeting and following Dr. Blau’s assertion of a choice between him and Dr. Zafar, I would like to recommend that the leadership team allow me a limited period to implement the new approaches to healthcare. As highlighted in the team meeting, the new approaches are not a replacement of the traditional healthcare approach embodied at Brooks Union but rather complementary offerings. The healthcare industry is evolving and as much as the traditional health approaches remain relevant, providing the complementary health offerings supplements

Technology contributes greatly to the field of medicine. The medical field has been improved tremendously by the use of technology and new data that has been researched. Throughout the last century, scientists and researchers have been able to understand more about diseases, viruses, and vaccines. Doctors are now are capable of treating diseases with antibiotics to cure them and new vaccines to prevent several diseases and viruses. Using the new technology that has been created in the past few years, we can now perform surgeries that are safer and more effective. A fairly new way of obtaining organs for transplants and surgeries is using organs that have been printed out from a 3D printer using recycled cells. Overall, the medical advancements that have been created over the last several years have improved the medical field immensely, in several ways.

Over the course of many centuries, medical technology has developed to a great extent. Studies show that recent equipment has evolved more in the last ten to twenty years than in the past thousand years. Before human time, people learned to treat themselves by just using natural substances. Now-a-days, our hi-tech systems in the medical field have been created for the most effective tools for a high level of patient care. While they advance the tools, it will then allow for quicker diagnosis, less pain, and fewer costs, which in the end will help save more lives. Some people are accepting that modern technology can buy them more time to live while others might find it quite alarming because they fear