The Importance Of Health Monitoring

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In the world today, many people are suffering from diseases because of poor healthcare. With the government desperately trying to find solutions to this problem, they called for the Engineers and computer scientists to help, who are doing their best in solving the problem. The engineers are building machines to monitor the patients either at the hospital or in their homes. Meanwhile the computer scientists are focusing on developing programs that can help anyone check their health not to mention also seeking help if they need it. In addition to these improvements, the general health care must change its method with dealing with the problem so that they can help anyone before they might get themselves in danger. However, without good general …show more content…

Real time monitoring can provide enormous benefits to doctors for example, it can warn doctors if anything happens to the patients and it will keep a record so that we can understand how to tackle these diseases (Wakefield, 2012). According to Menachemi and Collum (2011), real time monitoring can help with increasing hospital’s database. While patients are being monitored, the data about the disease is stored electronically in a database which then can be accessed by doctors to improve their ability to cure the disease if it occurred again. Real time health monitoring can inform anyone nearby how the patient is doing and to see if the patient needs any medical care (Herzog, 2015).although having real time health monitoring is better than nothing. Kakria, Tripathi, and Kitipawang (2015) stated that the time it takes to send the data to the hospital can take more the 6 minutes, which is under acceptable range in American heart association. . While it is a simple equipment that can be attached to a patient, it can track any vital, mental and physical changes that can be fatal to the patient and notifies the doctors so that they can act on the patient as soon as possible (Herzog, 2015). Other method that computer scientist can do to improve health monitoring is by the internet. Herzog (2015) stated that by using the internet patients can …show more content…

Engineers can help with building some devices to help patients to check their health or improve their houses to suit their needs. One of the ways to improve patient’s health is by replacing torn off limbs. According to Grovette (2016), advance in prosthetics can improve the lives of anyone that had his arms or legs damaged or was born without any, it is now possible to replace the damaged limbs with advanced prosthetics that a human can control using the nerve system. However, prosthetics limbs can also be harmful to anyone wearing it. Not only that the prosthetics are expansive, prosthetics can harm the patient more than help the patient if attached incorrectly (Brian, 2010). Another major discovery by engineers is with the possibility to regenerate lost tooth. Grovette (2016) stated that a team at Harvard has successfully regenerated rats and human lost tooth by using low powered lasers to stimulate the stem cells and grow new teeth. In addition, a new type of light bulb is being developed to disinfect and kill bacteria. The new type of light bulbs will be similar in size and shape of a regular light bulb, but it can continuously disinfect the room by preventing the bacteria from repopulating in the room. This light bulb can help hospitals with keeping the hospitals clean and disinfected for the new patients. Another way for engineers to improve health monitoring and general well being

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