• How have they changed patients' health and information search behaviors? They are making patients more aware of the things they are or are not doing to their body, as well as what kind of food they are taking in. For example, I know doctors recommended documenting what you eat and for often/ how long you work out; well there is an application on your phone to help you keep track of activities and the food/ how much water you ingest. By getting the patients involved they are becoming more conscious of their actions. I applications like that to keep track and it keeps me more aware of what I eat and the ingredients that are in it. • What are the possible benefits to the patients? One major benefit is to be healthy. By being more conscious
The author’s sources support the conclusion that innovations in health technology will help improve patient care. Using not only Dr. Martin but others who are being trained in the field such as Sean Hayes, a Baylor MB/Healthcare/MSIS candidate, who in the article spoke of how a physician can be patched in by video and do a distance consult, which he saw as cost sharing in rural areas at may not be able to afford
...ing molecular material with which to monitor bodily functions and responses, assess drug levels, and follow disease processes without subjecting patients to unnecessary discomfort and risk.
In the world today, people are constantly surrounded by technology. At any given moment, we can connect to others around the world through our phones, computers, tablets, and even our watches. With so many connections to the outside world, one would think we have gained more insight into having better relationships with the people that matter the most. Despite these connections, people are more distant to one another than ever. In the article, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk," author Sherry Turkle details her findings on how people have stopped having real conversations and argues the loss of empathy and solitude are due to today’s technology. Turkle details compelling discoveries on how technology has changed relationships in “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk,” and her credibility is apparent through years of research and the persuasive evidence that supports her claims.
Learning Experience Journal Entry – Director of Health Information Management and the Supervisor of Medical Records Coder
wearables that connect to apps such as MapFitnessPal. The apps provide consumers with the ability to track their food consumption, and view a nutritional breakdown of their food intake.
Technological advances enable nurses to provide accurate, timely care for a patient. This is due to the fact that these advances enable doctors and nurses to quickly diagnose, explain and predict the health-illness status of a patient, thus allowing health care professionals to spend less time finding answers, and more time providing quality care. For nurses, this includes spending time with the patient establishing rapport, communication and a trusting relationship for optimum clinical care.
Case 1 -- You work in a busy multi-specialty clinic with a high patient volume. The physicians enter the type of code that will yield the greatest reimbursement. You suspect the codes are not accurate.
Patients that follow food practices will be given the tools to be able to select...
...ncement can revolutionize the healthcare sector. Smartphones are more affordable, more accessible to the population than computers because these days everyone own a smartphone and are easier to carry. In the recent years the use of cell phones and wireless sensors to gather data and access health data has grown up tremendously. Lot of mobile applications are already available in the market that count your daily calories intake, keeps track of your nutrition’s and workout plans.
...vering possible health prevention may be a life saving venture. The incredible technology is evolving, and become more refined as each step is meant. What the complete future holds for patients medical monitoring is yet to be unveiled, but the benefits to patients and life saving information monitoring maybe one of the biggest steps in health care monitoring, and prevention.
The food tracker benefited me in so many ways. I total three days out and all calculated 4800 calories. The food tracker allowed me only 2000 calories a day and wanted me to target at least 150 min/week in physical activity. The recommendations for my calories were very direct and limited to only a certain amount that I could manage. It help me manage my daily food intake, inform me of the calories and fats I was placing into my body, and educated me on the need foods needed from the food pyramid. My son even loved placing the items we ate into the system to look at “our numbers” (he it calls that).
While it can cause harm, technology has many good qualities. Health care facilities can work together efficiently to use social media to engage patients to maintain health care needs and promote treatment options worldwide. Healthcare professional can also teach other doctors and nurses through Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites. Social media can create innovation and gives the whole medical field a educational value which should be embraced. Phones are also used by patients to gain knowledge that can be used to better their own life: “19% of smartphone owners have at least one health app on their phone. Exercise, diet, and weight apps are the most popular types” (Penn,
We are living in electrifying times. Mobile health (mHealth) technology is changing every facet of the way we live. Possibly no area is more imperative or more reflective than the improvements we are observing in healthcare (Fox & Duggan, 2012). In current years, there has been an increase of wearable devices, social media, smartphone apps, and telehealth, and each has immense promise for the future of organized health care (Fox & Duggan, 2012). With the capacity to assemble and interpret patient-made data, these mHealth tools keep the assurance of changing the way health care is provided, proposing patients their own customized medical guidance (Manojlovich et al., 2015). Health care availability, affordability, and quality are
Real time monitoring can provide enormous benefits to doctors for example, it can warn doctors if anything happens to the patients and it will keep a record so that we can understand how to tackle these diseases (Wakefield, 2012). According to Menachemi and Collum (2011), real time monitoring can help with increasing hospital’s database. While patients are being monitored, the data about the disease is stored electronically in a database which then can be accessed by doctors to improve their ability to cure the disease if it occurred again. Real time health monitoring can inform anyone nearby how the patient is doing and to see if the patient needs any medical care (Herzog, 2015).although having real time health monitoring is better than nothing. Kakria, Tripathi, and Kitipawang (2015) stated that the time it takes to send the data to the hospital can take more the 6 minutes, which is under acceptable range in American heart association. . While it is a simple equipment that can be attached to a patient, it can track any vital, mental and physical changes that can be fatal to the patient and notifies the doctors so that they can act on the patient as soon as possible (Herzog, 2015). Other method that computer scientist can do to improve health monitoring is by the internet. Herzog (2015) stated that by using the internet patients can
We as future health care providers need to learn and adequate all the new technology and utilized these tools to assist us in providing evidence based care to our patients. We need to learn to manage our patients with the tools and not letting the tools to overtaken our ability to care for the patients. It can be very challenging to not be occupied and distracted by the technology that surrounds us whiling providing care to our patients. however, if we can utilize these tools sufficiently and adequately, we can make a great difference in people’s lives and have great patient’s