Alessandra Bongiovanni- Module 5
Technology to play a bigger role in hospital care
Amber Dance
Journal Entry #5
This article was chosen because of its focus on telemedicine. As mentioned in the article telemedicine is the future of healthcare and will be a dominant force. This article discusses the advances in technology with the use of robots. Robots will help patients and nurses and other healthcare personnel stay connected to physicians, which will improve the healthcare delivery system. With technology, hospital stays can be shorter, safer, and can prevent more infections. Infection prevention is a major aspect hospital staff try to prevent and biggest and most simplest thing one can do is wash their hands. The use of electronic ID bands is another form of technology being initiated in which nurses and doctors have to scan themselves everytime they wash their hands and this will determine who is and who is not washing their hands. This article caught my attention with how far a long healthcare and technology have come along with the use of robots to act as standins for doctors and help deliver care. It's pretty jaw dropping, but did we expect less from genius minds that surround us.
The article above is a product description along with opinions of how well these advances are going to influence healthcare from a positive standpoint. The need addressed is how technology will help hospitals to promote a moder-patient focused approach to healthcare.
After reading about the use of electronic ID bands for scanning to monitor those who are washing hands in my opinion is a unbelievable and strong approach to infection prevention. Although this can not be fully trusthworthy because some people may scan their bracelet, but avoid washing their hands. Although we cannot control the individual, I believe the system will help in monitoring and improving hand washing.
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