Medical Technology, Doctors, And Patients

Medical technology encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases or medical conditions that affect humans. This may included but not limited too, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. Such technologies are intended to improve the quality of healthcare delivered through earlier diagnosis, less invasive treatment options and reductions in hospital stays and rehabilitation times. Recent advances in medical technology have also focused on cost reduction. Medical technology may include medical devices, information technology, biotech, and healthcare services. The impacts of medical technology may involve social and ethical issues. For example physicians may seek objective information from technology rather than listening to subjective patient reports. A major contributor of healthcare expenditure in America is the advancement of medical technology. According to several studies it is shown that there is a correlation between the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) and money allocated to healthcare. One of the leading theories is that medical technology is growing faster than expected.

The first article I reviewed outlined the history of the EHR and discussed the possible future directions of the EHR while the second article measured the successes of the CPOE and new avenues for hospitals with the CPOE.

Do you have your vaccination history memorized? Can you remember the date of your last CT scan, X-ray or test results from years back? Unless you've had the same family doctor or healthcare provider since birth, it can be hard to monitor years of medical checkups, treatment procedures, medications or surgeries.

As mentioned above, for the past three years I have been volunteering in underserved communities and working as an executive assistant in an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Office in which I process oral x-rays such as panoramic and cone-bean radiography, take impressions, manage and maintain patient's accounts and scheduling, financial reconciliation, treatment coordinator and surgical assistant. I am fortunate to be in charge of the implant program implemented by Dr. Robert G. Hale, where I maintain patient's records, developed implant recall system, I ensure that patients are property identified and receive the best care by preparing them for surgeries and having all instruments and parts ready when needed. Therefore, I have the desire and

To achieve this, technology is being built into body enhancements, including limbs, organs and sense. Currently on the market are parts such as hearing aids that help deaf people hear, prosthetic limbs allowing people to replace ones they no longer have and glasses to aid the blind. What everyone may not know about is the more advanced technologies presently being worked on. In Brumfiel’s article (2013), he interviews Bertolt Myer, a man whom from birth was handed the disadvantage of not having a complete arm. With many passing years, Myer had used many types of replacements, and now, his newest addition, a bionic hand. Inside of the moulded forearm are two electrodes that respond to muscular signals in the residual limb: Sending a signal to one electrode opens the hand and to the other closes it (Brumfiel, 2013). These enhancements support a person in living a happier and longer life in better health. But there are also other body enhancements that are purely for fun and personal gain. The question is, do they improve the quality of life? Or do they just prove to be inappropriate, irrelevant and diminish a person’s lifespan. In his article, Infante examines different types of body modification, and one in particular, the magnetic implant (2014). This implant is placed into the flesh of a man’s ring finger and allows gives him the

A reduction of surgical time and improved success rate example would be a custom-fit acetabula cup implant for a hip surgery. The cup helps to create body parallelism, which helps the patient to move more comfortably. This same cup will also fit better to the patient since it was scanned from the actual patients hip and it will integrate into the body’s skeletal system faster and better due to the porous structures printed on the back of the implant. These porous structures graft to the body over time, a process called osseointegration. With

As the number of service members grows, more veterans are experiencing limb losses because of combat-related injuries. Even though these injured soldiers receive prescriptions for an artificial limb replacement, many of them choose not to wear their prosthetic devices as they are unreliable, uncomfortable, or painful to wear. Poorly fitted prosthetics, limited flexibility, and lack of ability to replicate sensations are some of the factors negatively affecting adaptation to and subsequent use of prostheses (Martino, 2014). Many veterans with limb amputations suffer from neuropathic pain which often stops them from wearing prosthetics as they do not want to feel additional pain (Karcz, 2016). Some veterans

In pediatric physical therapy, it is common to see a child with cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy or another physical deformity utilizing an ankle-foot orthosis, which the child will inevitably outgrow in a short period of time. As one doctor so adequately states, “if there was a Murphy's Law of pediatric orthotics, it would be that all growth spurts occur immediately after receiving a new orthosis, if one did not occur between the casting and the fitting” (source) What if there was a way to quickly and inexpensively manufacture an orthosis to meet the changing needs of these young patients? This is only one example in the field of physical rehabilitation where medical rapid prototyping could prove an enormous benefit.

Robert Lake, CPO graduated from Florida International University, Summa Cum Laude, in 1994 with a B.A. in Orthotics and Prosthetics. He completed his residency in Orthotics at MedTech Inc., a small O&P company. Lake gained a tremendous amount of clinical experience and technical knowledge by working in a very small but hectic lab environment. He then moved on to fulfill his residency requirement for prosthetics at the Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation in West Orange, NJ.

Technological Context-The Physician Scientific discovery and technology have had far reaching positive and negative impact on the society from time immemorial (Neumann and Tunis 378). Though there is no universal definition of technology, a succinct definition is offered by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, as "the practical application of knowledge “ in solving problems or inventing some other useful things (Merriam-Webster Para 1 and 2). In the movie The Physician, Philipp Stölzl depicts the role of medical technology in solving mysterious infections and maladies, the laborious challenges undergone by the medics to acquire medical technology and how social and religious belief antagonizes technological development. This paper argues a thesis

There is an estimated 1.9 million people living with an amputated limb in America, each day 500 more Americans loss a limb (Ziegler et al., 2008). Of those who lose a limb later in life, 60-80% of them experience phantom limb pain. (Nikolajsen et al., 2001) Phantom limb pain refers to a pain or sensation that seems to come from the limb that was amputated. ( Nikolajsen et al., 2001) Of those who are congenital amputees, an estimated 1500 of them are born with upper limb reduction, while 750 of them are born with a lower limb reduction. (Canfield et al, 2006) Limb reduction refers to a defect during birth that causes a part of a limb or the entire limb to fail to fully form during pregnancy. ( Vasluian et al, 2013) A look within the quality of life of these various forms of amputees may produce viable information that could be used to assist in the prosthetic rehabilitation process.

Most people have their own definition or view towards what medicine actually means. According to dictionary.com, medicine is any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness. Medical Technology is the actual use of technology to discover the diagnosis and also to create a cure for those illnesses and diseases. Medical Technology can also be used to do research, for example stem cell research. Doctors are using medical technology to determine how stem cells can be used to cure certain illnesses and diseases. Medicine is any form of a substance that is used to cure the illness or disease that has been diagnosed, but the medical technology is the usage of technology to learn and understand how to cure these specific illnesses and diseases.

such as static prosthesis, simple artificial limbs like peg legs which do not enable the person

Over the course of many centuries, medical technology has developed to a great extent. Studies show that recent equipment has evolved more in the last ten to twenty years than in the past thousand years. Before human time, people learned to treat themselves by just using natural substances. Now-a-days, our hi-tech systems in the medical field have been created for the most effective tools for a high level of patient care. While they advance the tools, it will then allow for quicker diagnosis, less pain, and fewer costs, which in the end will help save more lives. Some people are accepting that modern technology can buy them more time to live while others might find it quite alarming because they fear

In today’s medical field technology plays a big role when it comes to patient care. Technology is huge when it comes to giving the patient the best type of quality care when they are in the hospital. In the old days people would just write it down on a sheet of paper and record it by hand, which caused mistakes. Now with the Electronic Health Record those mistakes are drastically declining. Statistics have shown that using the Electronic Health Record has lowered Nursing mistakes as well as improved patient care. Our society has progressed through the years and has been introduced with the Electronic Health Record which has drastically improved our health care system. The Electronic Health Record provides great communication between