Do you know where the future is headed for hospital computing? This is what doctor’s can look forward to, a world of intelligent mobile computers. (Note: Done with PowerPoint 2010!)
With better diagnosis, better records, more data mining, can health care be improved?
According to Donald A. Young, chief operating officer and medical director of the Health Insurance Association of America, it depends. Sometimes technology falls just short of the mark. Technologies don't always reach its intended practitioners and is often flawed. Technology is misused and services overused. We have these problems because it is a failure to apply what we know. You have to see who is using the technology and under what circumstances, not just its effectiveness. The flaw is in the application of the technology and the selection of individuals who are the right candidates for it. We have the necessary body of knowledge, but we are not applying it properly. By the time this is solved, a whole new generation of new technology is deployed, making the findings moot and we have to start all over again. The adoption and application of that knowledge by practitioners are the true flaws.
