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Technology Trends in Healthcare: Telemedicine

Angelina Avetisyan

University of Phoenix

Technology Trend in Health Care

There are several technology trends that have come and have been invented over the years. Each and every trend that has been able to be invented has its own functions as to why it was invented. Each of them is used in the various organizations that use them to perform the various functions in the organization as they are needed to do so (Devaraj & Ezra, 2011). In the health care sector, there are some technologies that have been invented hence enhancing the medical sector.

Telemedicine

Description

This is a type of technology that has been invented enhance the communication between a patient and the doctor. They are able to communicate even though there is a distance between them. They get to pass the information across them that enhance treatment to the given patient without necessarily to physically go to the doctor (Li, 2013). The patient might need for the doctor to be able to consult them on the various issues. With the telemedicine that has been invented, it has made the patient to easily reach the doctor that they need to consult them on the various issues of their interest.

Effect

It has a positive effect on the health sector. It largely assists in making it easy for communication between the patient and the doctor. There is no barrier that is created between them as the patient can easily consult the doctor on various issues that might be affecting them. The doctor in the other hand can also assist the patient in easy way without them to physically move to the places where the patients are.

The other positive effect is that it improves communication between the patient and the doctors. Some of the areas that might be far from the health care centers do not necessarily need to go these centers for them to get the facility that they need (Devaraj & Ezra, 2011). They can just use the invention by communicating with the various doctors on the various issues.

Benefits of the trend and improvement

The trend has a great benefit to the health care sector and it will be able to improve the sector and move it to another level. One of the benefits is that the patients are able to get the medical assistance that they need from the various places that they are based at. They do not necessarily need to physically move to the areas where the doctors are based in but can communicate with them and get the medical assistance that they need.

It will save a lot of lives of the various patients. Some of the patients might be in danger but the distance that is there for them to reach the nearest health care center might make them not to reach for the medical attention (Devaraj & Ezra, 2011). With the assistance of this trend, the lives of the various individuals will be able to be saved and thus increase in the lives of people.

References

Li, K. F. (2013). Smart home technology for telemedicine and emergency management. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 4(5), 535-546.

Devaraj, S. J., & Ezra, K. (2011, April). Current trends and future challenges in wireless telemedicine system. In Electronics Computer Technology (ICECT), 2011 3rd International Conference on (Vol. 4, pp. 417-421). IEEE.