Question

Give brief description of general healthcare technology trends, particularly related to data/information you have observed in use in your healthcare organization or nursing practice. Describe any potential challenges or risks that may be inherent in the technologies associated with these trends you described. Then, describe at least one potential benefit and one potential risk associated with data safety, legislation, and patient care for the technologies you described. Next, explain which healthcare technology trends you believe are most promising for impacting healthcare technology in nursing practice and explain why. Describe whether this promise will contribute to improvements in patient care outcomes, efficiencies, or data management. Be specific and provide examples.

Answer 1

Answer: The use of the healthcare technology in the healthcare organizations enhances the quality care provided to the patients. The use of technology in the healthcare organizations increases the efficiency such as diagnosis, reduce medical errors etc. One of the recent example is the implementation of the electronic health record system. It is used to store the healthcare information of the patients. As it has large storage space, the huge amount of medical information of the patients can be stored. It decreases the workload as well as increases the efficacy of the treatment. Hence it increases patient satisfaction level. These are the various benefits. But along with that there are challenges such as data privacy issues, data misuse etc. It is important to follow the HIPAA rules and regulations which strictly monitors the data privacy of the patients.