Technology in Healthcare

Technology in Healthcare is going to shape the health delivery process globally. Technology in Healthcare can start as simply as taking a phone call to a doctor, up to building a seamlessly integrated healthcare workflow. On the one hand, IT functions as an enabler in delivering faster and more accurate medical information to end users and at the same time reducing the manual labor-intensive process. Technology will probably never be able to replace a doctor’s judgment or a nurse’s touch. But it can help tip the balance by improving workflow and making manual and routine tasks more efficient. The automation of tasks such as temperature taking will free up time for other nursing tasks. Also, with a rapid decrease in hardware size and increase in mobility and connectivity, doctors will always be in the know.

Technology will increasingly be deployed right next to clinical care and the patient in a number of ways. Using biometrics, RFID, and barcode to establish patient identity before treatment administration. Bedside clinical information displays to keep patients engaged in their own care. Computer navigation via integration of a multitude of medical imaging datasets through the real-time display of anatomy during surgery. This will be taken further via telemedicine, head up displays and hepatics feedback technologies. Knowledge bases will increasingly be deployed to bring about best evidence healthcare. Evidence-based driven guidelines will bring about rule-based diagnosis and treatment. Algorithm-driven diagnosis is already well tried and tested and will be implemented in EMR to bring about cost-effective diagnosis and increasingly, the same will apply to the treatment of chronic diseases.

With the increasing use of electronic medical records, there are many advantages to their use in patient care. When looking at electronic medical records and patient safety, using this technology can reduce the amount of medication errors and better organize patient information. The use of remote health monitoring through telemedicine has changed the way in which health care professionals are able to provide care to people living in rural locations. The professional will use a variety of telemedicine remote monitoring tools to monitor the person's health.