The Importance Of Technology In Health Care

Technology is an important complement of our lives in 21st century. Technology helps our society advance and develop. Technology assisting health care to move forward; we cannot live without the advancement of technology, and I cannot imagine health care without advanced technology.

Recent years, technology has brought us so much advancement in what we can do for our patients. It has prevented so many diseases, treated may illnesses, and helped many patients to live a better and quality life that they want. I believe technology has great positive impact at the facility, Saint Luke’s health system that I am currently working at. In August of 2015, we have migrated from an outdated electronic medical records system to a well-known national electronic

We have started utilizing many devices, applications on smart phones to help us with diagnosing and capturing important information regarding patient’s disease. Livecor, a mobile electrocardiogram enable patient to capture their heart rhythm at the finger tips. All patients have to do is to place their fingers tips at the back of a smart phone such as an iPhone with the Livecor case attached to the phone. The patient’s rhythm will show up on the smart phone screen, if patients are having palpitations, they can easily use this technology to detect abnormal cardiac rhythms, and with a charge of fees, they can have the rhythm being reviewed and interpreted by a certificated cardiologist and obtain an official report. Technology like this prevents unnecessary emergency room visits and decrease hospital admissions, which overall decrease health care

We as future health care providers need to learn and adequate all the new technology and utilized these tools to assist us in providing evidence based care to our patients. We need to learn to manage our patients with the tools and not letting the tools to overtaken our ability to care for the patients. It can be very challenging to not be occupied and distracted by the technology that surrounds us whiling providing care to our patients. however, if we can utilize these tools sufficiently and adequately, we can make a great difference in people’s lives and have great patient’s