Technology 's Impact On Healthcare

Sports have been around for ages and technology has greatly affected them. Technology has made sports easier to play, coach, and officiate. Advancements in technology has drastically changed the Olympic games, the equipment used by athletes, training, and athletics as a whole.

2012) Electronic whiteboards in one of the well-known wireless technologies being used in hospitals to help locate patients test results, equipment and room status. (Larsen, Marc G. 2012) Wireless technology is at almost every healthcare organization from my experince, they are as advance as their budget will allow them to be.

Technology plays a critical role in the twenty-first century as it continues to improve everyday life. Technological benefits have expanded into the healthcare setting and has greatly impacted the medical field. Specifically looking at the nurse’s role, technology has eased interdisciplinary communication, accurate documentation, and reduced medical errors-at least that is the idea. Since a large portion of the nursing population was neither raised nor educated with technological knowledge, this raises a very interesting question. In acute care nursing, how does a negative perception of technology advancements compared to a positive view of technology effect patient care? Researchers wonder if these advancements have really improved their work performance as intended or if it has hindered it by lack of acceptance among the nursing staff. The research in this paper came from three different nursing journals that discuss technology advancements and nurses’ perception of this modern day tool.

Three of the telecommunication giants have stepped into wireless healthcare management arena in efforts to provide advanced medical care through new digital delivery systems. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have created partnerships with health care monitoring vendors to provide in home services to

While advancements in technology have positively impacted the nursing field, it has also created huge concerns with patient privacy and sharing of protected health information leading to detrimental effects to patients and their families. Indeed, technology is changing the face of healthcare with positive innovations to reduce medication errors and documentation errors. However, technology at our fingertips has created immense concerns with sharing of protected health information of patients via social media, email and other means of communication via technology. This paper addresses why I feel the advancement of technology has numerous deficits that need more research and implementation of new laws and policies to safeguard the

The first impact that comes to mind is higher spending costs. The development of new treatments for previously untreatable conditions, including long-term maintenance therapy for things such as diabetes and AIDS increases the overall costs of health care. . As we see

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.

The first article I reviewed outlined the history of the EHR and discussed the possible future directions of the EHR while the second article measured the successes of the CPOE and new avenues for hospitals with the CPOE.

The advance in technology is so fascinating. We live in a world of smart phones and computers. The advancement in technology is enabling providers to reach out to those who would normally not seek traditional health care settings, especially the millennium population. A quick google search using key words smartphones and healthcare provides a wealth of information related to some of the up and coming ways healthcare providers are instituting.

Technology has been advancing with the years, and it has changed how people live, communicate, travel, and learn. In particular, healthcare has changed due to the continuous technological advancements. Robotic advancements specifically have been transforming the health care industry. It is becoming noticeable that robotics are now being used for a variety of purposes in healthcare including drug making, moving supplies, administering drugs to patients, and monitoring patient vitals. A progressing form of robotics in healthcare is robotic surgery. One of the top functioning robotic surgery devices is the da Vinci Surgical System. Since 2000, surgical device has completed over 20,000 surgeries, which has set up the movement of using

Nursing of the future builds on old technology and new innovations to continue to grow towards a common goal. Nurses are just starting to see some of the changes happening in their workplace. Laptop computers on wheels aka (Cows) have been implemented to make the recording of patient data happen at the bedside. Larry Flynn and Dave Barista (2005) reported that “Wireless networks allow nurses to continue the care to the patient and not the chart. This is where nursing informatics plays a key role in hospital based technology and implementation of such technologies.

905), they write “Technology has transformed the nursing practice in the workplace, not only in terms of machinery and equipment, but the skills we have developed and the knowledge we master, the values we advocate, and the importance of nursing for society.” The authors do a great job summarizing in this statement the impact that technology has had on nursing care. Now nurses are being taught how to use newer types of machines, new electronic health record systems, and many other skills they were not used to using before. For younger nurses, this is no feat because they have been raised in a technologically advanced world. For the older nurses however, this presents a large challenge and can sometimes lead to error. The article by Casaril et al continues and explains (p. 905) “A study conducted with health professionals in five hospitals in Brazil and the Netherlands shows that the time of deploying something new generates increased physiological and psychological/emotional burden, especially due to the need to familiarize with the new situation.” So it must be understood that while new technologies may in fact improve nursing care and workload, there is going to be a transition period that may be rather difficult for nursing staff to adjust

What if a patient were to come into trauma with broken bones and needed surgery as soon as possible? The patient would first have to see a radiologist to get x-rays or other types of imaging to see what tasks the surgeons would have to complete during the surgery. Since this is an emergency, the doctors would have to be able to communicate quickly. A way that they could make that happen is by the use of cell phones. The radiologists could easily send the x-rays to the surgeons by a cell phone or an iPad, in which both consist of text messaging, e-mail, or even an app that the doctors could all use for communication in the hospital.

In an era where we are required to travel to see our doctors and specialists; would you have ever imagined the return of a time where services or the physicians themselves would come to you without being forced? Telemedicine through Cellular technology has helped advance health and medicine by allowing health care professionals the ability to communicate with each other seeing real time images and allowing them to better collaborate on the patients’ medical condition.

Technology and innovation have transformed the way people function personally and professionally. In the past, writing and mailing a letter was standard but now most people send electronic messages and text messages to phones. Healthcare has been changing tremendously as well, not only are paper charts and records becoming obsolete, but now many facilities are sharing test results, visit information details, and prescribed drug lists. This move into the digital age has helped improve healthcare by cutting costs in the long-term, increasing efficiency with decreased wait times, and reducing medical errors. This evolving technology expansion, commonly referred to as nursing informatics has created many