Healthcare technology is to modernize the processes of improving the health of patients through introduction of improved features in the conventional methods like diagnosing or treating of diseases. Improved life expectancy rates have been achieved by using technology in healthcare. Improved survival rates in critical diseases like heart-attacks; cancer etc. have been achieved through advance diagnosis.
Various trends which revolutionized healthcare industry and improved the patient's experience are:
• Optical technology: Imaging of internal body parts was made possible with optical technology introduced in healthcare. Diseases affecting any specific area or organ inside the body could be easily diagnosed without any "cuts-n-stitches". A simple example is X-ray, which is used to diagnose broken bones in any part of the body.
• Online resource: It is observed that more and more people are involved in learning the basic steps of diagnoses and treatment related to diseases using internet. People are exploring and self-teaching themselves to diagnose the problem using the knowledge available on internet. There are also a number of ipad apps which serve to make the general user more aware.
• Social Media: Healthcare in itself is an industry and like other corporate divisions, it is no different in using social media to reach out to the maximum density of population in order to serve the purpose of better health.
• Painless treatment: Technology has introduced techniques and tools for minimum invasive surgeries so as to provide virtually pain-free operations for treatment. It helps patients recover early and considerably reduces the cost of surgery.
• Studied and stored methods: Information technology has helped service the healthcare industry in providing right information about symptoms analysis of patients. Doctors and Surgeons get this help from information management capabilities of technology, to enable better treatment with lower cost.
• Hospital management systems: Technology has brought hospital management systems developed by a number of custom application development companies, which help the medical staff in improving their work efficiency. Results from various lab tests, patients diagnosis report etc. could be stored on a central database electronically which can be referred for some different or same case for implementing right treatment.
• Molecular medicines: Developed by proper study of molecular structure and mechanisms of diseases. This helps identifying the fundamental and genetic structure of diseases to develop molecular interventions to correct them.
• Robotic Surgery: It provides a 3-D visualization to the surgeon for better operating capabilities and provides a less painful surgery to the patient. Patients recover from the surgery faster than other conventional surgery methods. Smaller incisions are made during surgery, thus, reducing the chances of infection and blood loss etc.
Some other advancements are expected to facilitate with medicinal advantages are like tissue engineering and regeneration of organs in cases where particular area of body is totally malfunctioned. Many universities are conducting researches at preparing regenerative medicine, which they feel certain that it will be able to regenerate whole new organ again in place of malfunctioned organ or tissue.
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Nick Thomas is the author of this article. He has been writing articles for Cloud computing company like Q3 Technologies. Moreover, He has been providing useful content writing material related to Windows mobile Development and ipad apps .
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