Technological Evolution: Improving Healthcare and Lives

Throughout the evolution of time technology continues to influence our lives and the world. Hence as technology continues to evolve, the healthcare industry tends to follow with the necessary updates. Technology has become the center of our everyday lives. Consequently, we are incessantly hooked to our cell phones, the internet, and all things technology related. Technology deviates the way humans function and interconnect with each other. The human civilization has become technologically driven, and we yearn for more intuitive innovations, modernisms, apps and new technologies. However, with this new optimism, improvements in technology can change lives, not just socially, but mentally and physically to renovate health care. With technology,

According to the talk by Ali Ansary, the foreseeable future of healthcare will take a jump into the behavioral sector.(Ansary 2012) It has been proven that bad behavior like smoking causes lung cancer or that overeating causes obesity. Current advancements like disease monitoring or patient portals allow for more patient-centered care delivery and active patient engagement in their health. In the future, care should be directed to our behaviors to stop or motivate us to be healthier individuals. Ansary states, today we have implantable contraception with proven efficacy that regulates hormones to prevent pregnancy. Tomorrow we can have a subdermal drug delivery device to address the non-compliance with patients who have tuberculosis. (Ansary 2012) However, for the future, envision every cell in our body having a specific identifier like an IP address that we can monitor, control and

Hence it is essential to humanize the language of medicine. For years, the language of healthcare remained medicalized, overly specialized and professionalized (Okun 2013) with many acronyms and phrases, leaving little time to understand the vocabulary of the patient. Furthermore, there should be a standardized way to collect a patient’s explanation of a particular illness or medications to learn, code and store this information for future use. Okun’s solution for this issue was to create a patient’s lexicon with the aid of technology to save patients’ terminologies and match them with their correct medical terminologies. It is imperative that followers, employees or students understand what is being said for there to be meaningful reciprocity. As a future administrator of a nursing home, Okun’s message is one that resonates. As a leader, overseer and a provider understanding, the very rudimentary needs of a patient is