Valid health-related technologies affect health
Explanation:
The ultimate purpose of technological advancements in healthcare is to improve patient care and safety as well as to improve processes, practices and services by healthcare professionals.
Digitalization or Electronic health records (EHR) utilizes Data Science, Big Data and Cloud technologies.
Healthcare details of patients and can be accessed by all healthcare providers.
This improves patient care efficiency, ease of workflow, and reduces healthcare costs. Healthcare data management helps to track epidemics and prevent fatality. Improves quality of life. Aids in clinical and pharmaceutical research.
Connectivity issues leads to lack of communication between interconnected areas.
With huge amount of data handled, there is a big risk of data hacking since these also contain patient’s demographic details
Information and Communication Technology is applied in smartphones, electronic mailing services, telemedicine, telemonitoring services. Telemedicine and monitoring is a big boon to serve people in remote areas.
Artificial intelligence is used to track cancer cells, to produce artificial organs. AI can be dangerous if misused.
