English IV Honors 23 September 2014 Annotated bibliography: Improved Healthcare
Topal, Eric. How Technology is Transforming Healthcare. U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report LP., 12 July 2013. Web 23 Sept. 2014. This article shows how patients now have more power than ever before with the help of the technology revolution, and how the world of healthcare has severely changed. Such as the ability to monitor each heart beat in milliseconds to observe and analyze in extreme detail. Workers in healthcare are now more advanced than ever before with the ability to digitize humans which can eventually lead to printing fully functional organs. A few more have been able to detect where oxygen is concentrated in the blood along with various other techniques, such as real time reading of a persons heart and breathing rate, and even to see the development of a womans unborn baby. With the introduction of smartphones, text messaging, and videos physicians are now at the dispose of the patient when needed at a moments notice. With more recent technology medicine can be practiced at an individualized level rather than a general population.
The article is extremely reliable source of information because it contains recent and factual news. It also shows how much more security and attention to patients are being shown now because it has been more individualized to any patient with special circumstances such as allergies to certain medications or extraneous conditions. What it attempted to accomplish was to show how the lives of the clients has improved with technology and being able to call their doctors and even get their DNA information.
The article is extremely useful as it lists how technology is improving and how the public are able to utilize it to contact any records they may wish to see at any given moment. The article also shows just how much healthcare has improved with the improvement of technology, and with more improvements on the way, this article will assist me because it is up to date it also shows the impact technology is having on the clients
Jayanthi, Akanksha. 10 Biggest Technological Advancements for Healthcare in the last Decade. Beckers Health it & CIO Review
Beckers healthcare. 28 January 2014. Web. 23 September 2014.
This article listed several technological advances within the last decade of healthcare such as the electronic health record and how the percentage of hospitals using it went from 16% to 80% in only four years. More so it also explains how beepers and announcements are a thing of the past now with healthcare catching up to the 21 st century with the aid of Ipads tablets and smartphones to send information from the physicians office to the pharmacy to the email of the patient in under 10 seconds. Remote monitoring of a patient when they are not in the hospital such as pacemakers where the heart rate is sent to observers at the hospital. More so healthcare is continuing along with the rapid growth of technology to where the everyday persons genetic data can be studied by medical students.
The article is a reliable source as it lists recent breakthroughs and is factual and it shows percentage of how many hospitals have swapped to electronic health records, more data can be collected and observed even when the client is home resting or out and about with the family. The article can be improved by providing a few stories of patients willing to share their experiences with the new technology.
This article has also helped me because it again lists several impactss that technology has had on healthcare, for example, by removing the need of a paper doctrine and replaced with electronic records for patients to download and view at their disclosure, as well as wireless sensors and wearable technology such as leg braces with a remote to adjust how much cushioning can be applied to certain areas. The information has impressed me by giving a visual of how much more technology has been incorporated into the world of medicine.
None 1950s Health or Health Care in the 1950s Living-family-history n.p. Web 24 Sept. 2014
This brief article is one describing what healthcare was like in the 1950s where people only went to the doctors when they were physically injured or extremely sick, and many procedures that are done today were controversial or not yet thought of such as MRI scans CAT scans and even x- rays. Allergies were not known of and nearly all children consumed milk and peanut butter sandwiches. More so the most efficient way back then was bed rest, plenty of fluids, pain killers for an upset tummy or headache, and a house call from the town physician. There was almost no technology incorporated into the world of healthcare, simply note taking and home remedies for the ill.
The article is useful as it gives me insight to how many were taken care of only 60 years ago. (Otherwise known as the baby boomers group) Many home remedies were done to take care of the sick such as Vicks vapor rub and Alka-Seltzer tablets and prescription medicine was not yet the common form of healing.
This is an outstanding source for this project as it gives me something to compare modern day techniques to what was the standard only 60 years ago and what people considered to be the best way to get better. No, the standard was not the best, however it has improved tremendously within the last 6 decades. The article will help me incorporate a comparison from what was to what is the standard today. Honigman, Brian The 7 Biggest Innovations in Health Care Technology in 2014 Referral MD n.p., Web. 25 sept. 2014
This article is another list of the 7 biggest breakthroughs in this decade. A few are only 3D printed bio materials such embryonic stem cells, blood vessels, skin, and even heart tissue. Optogenetics which is simply controlling the brains process of creating thoughts and emotions. Another are hybrid operating rooms where technology directly assists surgeons by showing where damage is done where its being done and even provide a digital copy of the body on a monitor. Digestible sensors which allow the patient to swallow a sensor similar to a pill and observe and collect data to send to the physician, this also cancels the need for a yearly physical as the sensors give daily data to be recorded documented and analyzed.
This article will be of great use as it is only a few months old, has different items listed as the previous two lists and has provided new information entirely new to me. The article has also shown even more new ways using the items listed as a base for what is to come. My interest in the topic has never been more intense and focused on the subject, and I am anxious to continue on with this senior project.
This article simply blew my mind at the fact that we now we the ability to copy tissue of the heart and add it on to a person who needs or being able to see what is going on inside of the patient on a daily basis with the aid of digestible sensors. Something even more impressive is that we can actually control the brain with light, therefore leading to a deeper understanding of the brains process of emotions or thoughts by simply lighting a neuron to turn it off or on.