Buzz Technology We live in a world referred to as the “Age of Technology”. Since mankind has been in existence, our people have found many ways to improve life to make things easier. Everyday new inventions are being created. Technology has impacted our lives so much until the point where we cannot imagine a life without relying on this necessity. Technology has went far beyond our imaginations. As we proceed through the centuries technology continues to blow the minds of everyone. In 1818, Mary Shelly wrote about how,” a world run by technology will be destroyed by the very same technology man has strived to create”. What if we did lose technology and how will that affect us? Today we use technology to carry out the simplest tasks like: turning …show more content…
Technology plays a huge role in medical care, health procedures, and medical system today. Have you ever typed a paper and the computer turned off, and you automatically have a mini heart-attack when you think all your hard work was not saved? Well, if we have a blackout that is all our medical history going in jeopardy. The computer stores all our medical history. Even our blood pressure is taken with a machine, not many places take the blood pressure manually. Medical technology has advanced so much. For example, needle-free Diabetes care, the pain free monitor sensors the level of insulin through the skin. It is a major advancement from using needles. These new technologies are allowing health care doctors to offer cheaper, easier, and more efficient patient care. Everything from artificial hearts to electronic aspirin. As we look, medical technology is on a rise but all these things have something in common. If the electricity and “advanced” technology shuts down patients would be devastated. In Paul Walker’s 2013 film Hours, his baby is born and a few hours later, Hurricane Katrina hits, leaving the hospital in the dark. Walker stays because his baby is on a ventilator. The ventilator went out, the back-up generator went out so he is forced to use a hand-crank generator in order to keep the ventilator battery
Our banks, favorite restaurants, insurance, even our money is sent to us digitally. We can learn anything we want online. We are dependent on technology to live our everyday life. Is this necessarily a good thing? For example, when a person is born in the united states they are assigned a social security number. This 9 digit code is that person's entire life, it's what identifies them. If this code gets placed in the wrong hands it can ruin your entire life. Due to the lack of security within technology, every day someone gets their identity stolen because the wrong person hacks into their computer and finds their social security number. Technology has the power to destroy our entire life and there is not a thing we can do about it. Furthermore, not only is our identity at risk, even our safety is at risk. Most countries military is built off and reliant on technology. Technology has helped countries win many wars, however what happens when the war is against the very technology we rely on to keep us safe. Smart Drones, Self guided missiles, Satellite imagery, even nuclear missiles all controlled by technology. Hypothetically, if technology gained a mind of its own and revolted against the human race would we really stand a chance? We may try but in the end we would most likely become enslaved to something that we humans created. Technology has full control over our lives and has left us helplessly dependent on
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.
Some might even go as far to say that technology may be the death of mankind. There is also the chance that once the human race is wiped out, technology will continue to live on without us. Then it all comes down to the final question, do we really need to keep improving technology? Let's take a closer look. Technology makes humans lazier and antisocial.
In today’s hospital environment, our main focus is placed on technology, medications and treating a diagnosis. Often patients are wheeled from one examination to another with little personal interaction received from their healthcare provider. Patients are hooked up to monitors alarming endlessly due to staff being either unavailable to silence them or not having the compassion to comfort. Technology has become so dominant in hospital settings that we have lost sight of providing the
In Med Surg I, I was assigned to Harford Memorial Hospital. I was really excited to be back in the hospital setting after fourteen years of working in an outpatient surgical center. I previously worked in the Intensive Care unit at Fallston General Hospital for ten years as a critical care tech so I was really looking forward to caring for patients in the hospital setting. I was assigned two patients for which I had to perform a level two assessment on as well as their care. It was a rude awakening for me to discover that the nurses had to wear a phone and that it constantly rang while they were in the patient’s room trying to care for them. Also, all medical information and treatment was now in the computer and you had to scan their identification band and search for information throughout their chart. It appeared to me that some of the nurses never once looked their patient in the eye when they spoke to them, instead they stared at the computer. It made me feel a little uncomfortable the nurses’ main focus seemed to be on the computer and not on the patient lying in the bed. Brown (2011) agrees that individuals are continuously challenged with advancements in technology that can
A smart, scholarly and skillful author named Aldous Huxley once said “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards”. The advancement, improvement and the wrong use of technology has affected the world in a really negative way. When technology first started to improve and become more advanced was during the WW1 and WW2, which caused the most destructive wars in human history. For example the wrong use of technology led the Americans to produce one of the most destructive bombs that killed about more than 80,000 innocent people in Japan, Nagasaki. Another perfect example could be the production of nuclear weapons and missiles in Russia and Iran, which are made to eventually be used in another
There is the risk that technology or its power source will fail. If technology would fail it would lead to the problem of not having the machines available to do the different tests needed in a hospital. There is also the problem that with all electronic charting, if the system would fail they would not have the patient information readily available. The risks and potential problems associated with technology can also be flipped to look at the positive side. When the machines are working properly the test and scans that can be generated in a matter of minutes are vital to diagnosing critical patients. The electronic charts also help access patient charts from anywhere in the hospital and allow the doctors to look up patient information quickly. In this particular episode, no problems are shown with the technology but the risks and benefits stated are shown throughout the 10 seasons that the show has
Civilization today has become almost completely reliant on technology. Almost the entire planet is connected by phone lines, roads, air travel, or the internet. People converse with others thousands of miles away through modern connections, watch live broadcasts of news in foreign lands, or talk on wireless phones by use of satellites. We are governed by laws designed to protect us. We live in heated homes with fresh water and electricity. We commute to work by car or mass transit. We live by rules, values, and ideals that keep the peace. Our world is organized, convenient, and technologically advanced. What would happen if suddenly our civilization
Technology has been the focus of healthcare and we trust that technology will be the solutions that will help us progress in our patient care. Patient care and safety have become so complex because of technology because it facilitates how physicians communicate among them, help reduce medication errors, tracking them then reporting medicine, and allows physicians and organizations to have medical information at their fingertips and promoting quality patient care. I choose to review an article on ways that technology has to improve patients’ safety and care by Christine Queally Foisey, CEO of MedSafe and some of the highlight points are as follow:
Health care providers are depending too much on their equipment, thereby missing out on some important elements that computers does not understand.
Just think of it. This time twenty years ago we were not able to do the unthinking able. Now we can do and able treat and heal patients in their time of need. Technology has helped us go from the old school way of thinking to now being able to access something a mainframe to diagnose and care for our patient in their critical time of need. When you’re nurses you must learn to comfort and ease any pain that your patients may feel and help the family members. With technology, we have better understanding of the issue and how to approach it. We are able to give kind words of encouragement or even sympathy to the family member to express their concerns and also provide the next steps to help the
In today’s culture, nearly everyone is using technology. Healthcare industry is well-known in using advanced medical technology-the goal is to improve quality of life, provide best care and save lives. This paper will discuss some challenges using technology and how it affects patients and clinicians in the health care setting. The purpose of this paper is to provide crucial information of particular challenges that health care industry is experiencing using technologies.
Growing up, Buzzy was absorbed into the musical world and loved performing and listening to music. The history of recorded music started long before Buzzy was born in 1870. It was essentially the first non-print form of mass communication for the public. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, which allowed people to record telephone messages. Later, Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Tainter upgraded Edison’s creation by inventing the graphophone, which instead of using tinfoil like Edison, used beeswax to record sound. Soon after, companies began forming, such as The Columbia Phonograph Company that sold records on wax cylinders and the Victor Talking Company, which used the gramophone invented by Emile Berliner. Then, in the 1950s,
the same factor. Neurological surgery is extremely dangerous, complications post-surgery are common and can be life-threatening, leading to disabilities and comas, or worse, death. As medical technology aids the healthcare industry, everyone is to benefit from it. In that, with enhanced hospital treatments, surgical results, and lower mortality rates, the reliance upon medical technology is critical to millions of lives. Without this development of technology, one can conclude that many lives would be affected by increased trauma, casualties, and longer hospital stays. Medical technology
Advancement in medical technology is happening every day. Doctors are looking for the best and most modern methods to help them take care of their patient’s needs. The advancements in medical technology have been immense in the last decade, and they are only going to keep advancing. Medical technology incorporates a wide variety of healthcare tools and is used to diagnose, monitor and treat diseases or medical conditions. These technologies are intended to improve the quality of healthcare delivered through earlier and quicker diagnosis, less intrusive treatment options and reduced hospital stays or time spent in rehabilitation. Medical bills can be expensive, as well as health insurance premium and copays, and running a health care facility is not cheap either. The most recent advances in medical technology have focused on cost savings, which in most cases is some patient’s main concern when planning and scheduling visits to a doctor or specialist. Medical technology largely includes medical devices, information technology, and many other healthcare services. Also, some technologies that better the lives of patients, things like better prosthetics, prototypes for robotic arms, newer and improved heart stints and many other innovations in the medical community. There are many forms of technology, something as small as implants to machines that can do full body scans and even conference calls from across the world to diagnose a patient.