As most of us know, the technology in the medical/healthcare system is growing widely and fast. Most of the time when we think about this though, we think more in the technologies that are used "on" patients rather than the "behind the scenes" technologies.
I worked for a psychiatric clinic as an administrative aide and saw first hand how important technology in writing is in these jobs. Each patients record is not only store on paper and filed, but all dictations, medications, refferal information, and much more is being kept electronically using the Epic system. Epic is only one of the program systems changing healthcare everyday with its new technologies. Not only medical records are being recorded electronically, but blood pressure, pulse, and many other statistics are being taken by machines instead of nurses, and being recorded technologically.
As seen in this YouTube video (which is a great example of this technological transition) technology in writing has made everyone's jobs easier and faster. Personally, I think this is quite amazing. Imagine how many more lives can be saved by those extra minutes we gain by not having to look through papers and dig through charts just to find out where to put the patient.
I think that these technologies will be great advancements in our medical system and can only create benefits for everyone. Yes, many trainings and teaching will go into this transition, but the outcome will be amazing.
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9 years ago
I've definitely seen this at least a little bit as a patient/visitor in hospitals the last few years. Just by swiping my insurance card, the nurses are able to pull up all of the health info in my file, no matter what doctor's office it originally came from. A few years ago I was in for a checkup and that was how the nurses realized I needed a tetanus booster. :) This kind of digital record for that kind of reason alone is very important because there are a lot of people, like me, who forget about things like that and it can really affect their health.
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