Throughout the previous 5 weeks I have tried to bring attention to the importance of technology in the heath care profession. I have discussed its merits, including financial, efficiency, and quality of care through the increase of an ePCR system with digitized health records. I have discussed the new technologies, such as DNA sequencing, that can make medicine more personable and more efficient as well as current technologies (such as social networking) that I believe will have an even greater impact as we move forward. I have pointed out that an integrated healthcare infrastucture is in the best interest of this country and that the time is now to implement it. The healthcare field is one that has extremely traditional roots, and one that the common person thinks has a large precendence to call upon. It was my goal with this blog to demonstrate that this is a fallacious argument and one that is outdated and antiquated. Modern medicine (in my opinon) has yet to be demonstrated, until medicine embraces the technological revolution and innovation really takes hold, it will still be lagging behind.
The future of technology and Healthcare is very exciting, as innovative and dedicated people apply existing technologies( like using cell phones and SMS technology to increase participation in AIDS education and testing in Africa or to provide rewards for taking tuburculosis medicine via cell phone minutes), or the creation of new and novel technologies. I think the greatest advances will come from the former, as the technological revolution still has not completely been embraced by medicine, and once they begin adapting technology that has been used by government and business for some time (such as digital conferencing technology) we can really reap the benefits.
I think that also important is the consumer perception of technology in medicine, I think like many other industries that have orginally seen some resistence to the implemation of technology, medicine has seen this, but as people get used to seeing a computer in the exam room instead of a pad of paper, they will begin to see the benefits and the demand for the technolgy will increase and become part of our society. Technolgy and medicine are completely intertwined, and while the impletmation process might not be completely smooth, it is imperitive that goverment and private practice work together to create healthcare 2.o for the next generation in American medicine.
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