How technology has transformed healthcare | Halemind EHR
Technology is the driving force behind improvements in healthcare and, when you look at the rate of change, recent innovations, advancements in healthcare, many find it hard not to align with that observation.
Advancements in medical technology have allowed healthcare providers to diagnose and treat their patients better since the beginning of the professional practice of medicine. Credit to the continuous advancement of technology in the medical field, numerous lives have been saved and the overall quality of life and healthcare continues to improve with time.
Better and More Accessible Treatment
Technology has forever changed the face of modern healthcare industry. Availability and accessibility of treatment options is one of the prominent changes that technology has bought into the modern healthcare. IT in health opens up various avenues of research that allow experts, scientists. Healthcare providers to make healthcare effective patient centric.
Improved Care and Efficiency
Patient care is of utmost importance in the context of modern healthcare. The use of IT in healthcare has made patient care safer and more reliable. Being able to store lab results, records and other critical patient data into one centralized area has transformed the level of care and efficiency a patient receives when they enter the healthcare system.
Improved communication
With the modern day busy schedules and limited free time, as well as the huge number of patients requesting care, doctors can be difficult to get hold of. As a result of this, there is an undesirable communication barrier between the patient and healthcare provider. New developments in technology have focused on this point and are designed to improve the link between patients and doctors
Remote monitoring
Remote monitoring technology is one of the most useful and practical innovations in recent years in healthcare technology. Home monitoring systems/portable devices can be used by patients in the comfort of their home to reduce the time, costs, boredom and hassles associated with recurring visits to the doctor. Using a small device designed to measure a specific health issue, remote centers can analyse a patient’s data and alert them if something’s not right.
Portal technology for patients
With rapid new advances in portal technology, medical providers are now able to provide better visibility to patients and their caretakers, something that has long been missing from the early hospital setting. By designing more patient centric health portals, patients can now get access to their personal information remotely, which enables them to take greater control of the treatment process and effectively their entire health. Benefits of this technology include fewer errors in prescription, continuity of care, easier collaboration between healthcare provider and patient. Patient portal technology empowers the patient and adds a degree of power in care where they can become an active participant.
Mobile/Web apps
In the technologically advanced healthcare sector, there’s a mobile app for almost everything. Doctors, healthcare providers, tech geeks and patients are all joining forces to discover new ways to monitor personal health. If you have a smart mobile phone, then you can now track your daily sleep patterns, count calories, research treatment options, schedule appointments and even monitor your heart rate by using various apps designed specifically for the function mentioned above.
Electronic Health Record(EHR)
Thanks to innovation in digital technology field, the advent of EHRs’ are picking up pace. The relentless passion of young minds is reaping dividends across the healthcare sector. With the advent of EHRs’, maintaining a patient record is no longer a tiring task. In the healthcare industry, data is everything and everywhere. From analyzing diagnostic reports to filing patient treatment histories, healthcare facilities are bursting at the seams with information. With the help of EHR all the past medical records of a patient can be accessed with a single click, making the life of both the patient and the healthcare providers easy.
Technology is paving the way for a better tomorrow. We’ve witnessed numerous positive changes technology has bought in the healthcare sector and with time, things are only going to be better. We can only hope for better innovations where patient is given full control over his/her health.
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