Health care is changing dramatically due to technological advances, ranging from narcotics and antibiotics to magnetic resonance imaging scanners and radiotherapy. While future technological innovations will continue to change health care, technologies (new drugs and therapies, new devices, new social media support for health care, etc.) will drive innovations, and the human element will remain one of the constant boundaries of success. . No expectations can satisfy everyone; Instead, this article explores future episodes to see how we can think more clearly about where we want to go.
The importance of public health
Technology is driving health care more than any other energy, 'and' it will evolve dramatically in the future. Although we can summarize and discuss details of future trends in health care, we need to be clear about drivers so that we can agree with them and ensure the best possible outcomes for society as a whole in advance. Be able to work with
Keywords: Future health care technology, human factors
Introduction
Take a nineteenth-century nurse and surgeon and take them to a modern hospital of the 21st century, a place that is completely recognizable with similar hierarchies and harsh cultures. Patients are considered helpless, their clothes and belongings are removed, they lie in bed and are completely unaware of their illness. They are frustrating with our treatment, especially for the elderly, but I don’t think it surprises them.
If our two time travelers could attend the postmortem and hear the discussion of human error, it would seem like very little novel. Therapists are still in denial, lawyers are still languishing, and the culture of delay and denial is not surprising. However, the changes that have surprised nurses and surgeons are the changes in technology. Infusion pumps, dialysis machines, antibiotics, heart valves, MRI scanners, handwashing stations are also new ideas. All the hidden technology used in behind-the-scenes labs, from path labs to refineries, is surprisingly new considering this.
Despite medical culture, dramatic technological changes have occurred, and these changes are difficult to explain exactly. Does anyone know how the infusion pump works? They used to work as clockwork (and before that they worked with gravity) and now almost everything has a computer and a color screen and a lot of buttons. Implanted defibrillators that use telephone networks and websites to keep cardiologists up to date with their patients are just magic; New drugs that change mood, blood pressure or **** bacteria: all modern magic. Looking at the centuries of stagnation, it is amazing how much health care has changed over the last 150 years - and one wonders how much this rapid change will change in the future.
Arthur C. Clarke, a prolific futurist and science fiction writer, famously said that any sophisticated technology is inseparable from magic. Perhaps the main difference for the couple taken from the nineteenth century is that they believe it is magic, but we have stopped thinking about it and take it lightly!
Time-traveling fiction begins to dig into many interesting issues that we might not normally think of. ***** What about harvesting? What about developed humans? What about the end of antibiotics? Will the robot take over? And so on.
What seems like science fiction to us today will be regular in the future, perhaps even in our lifetime. Yet much of today’s human story about relationships, hopes, mistakes, grief and rejection is completely recognizable in the future. We still have authoritarian tendencies, we still have conflict over human error and patients are still helpless, making it easier for them to be treated. Because technology is driven by the market: if anyone has the idea that it can become a physical reality that they can sell, they can patent or license it and this way you can get a return on your investment. This, in turn, encourages them to find ways to make them smaller and cheaper and market them on a larger scale; It’s a technology-driven approach. In contrast, human culture does not benefit anyone. Improving the culture is not enough to start accepting someone or anything, and who wants to do that, especially when lawyers are watching? There is less financial incentive to improve the culture.
Atul Grande said the same thing about the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist. 1 Checklist is a simple piece of paper that helps to change human behavior - it helps to check if the patient is correctly identified, helps to introduce everyone by name (rights to reduce gradients) and so on. It is very simple and saves lives - more effective than many drugs. Grande questioned who would propagate such an idea when no one was making a profit. This is a small piece of paper that anyone can print. Technology that promises a similar improvement in results (like a patented drug) however, everyone buys it and the *************** company that made it is heavily promoting it. . The patient asks to use it. But paper that anyone can print is not exciting enough. Importantly, the only person who benefits from the checklist is the patient (physicians indirectly benefit because more successful operations mean less litigation). The patient will probably faint the moment he or she needs to ask!
Scientific fiction
Our time-travel fiction is just a small example of the power of using science fiction to help us imagine and plan for our future. Unlike the usual tunnel vision prediction of futuristic trends that often provoke dazzling positive thoughts, science fiction allows us to explore...
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