Question

Many people use technology to improve their lives. How does technology effect your life? You just address all of the questions in your response.

Other than your cell phone what technology helps improve your health?

What specific technology do you use to maintain or improve your health?

If you do not, whybhave you chosen to not use technology?

Can technology use have a negative effect on your your health?

Answer 1

Yes technology do helps people to have a better life specially in medical science it is quite easier to treat patient with technology in use.From x-ray machine to different surgical methods like laparoscopy everywhere technology increases life expectancies. Let us consider few examples regarding this. Use of Electronic Health Records in hospitals allow faster information transfer and more efficient care. Telehealth or telemedicine makes easy virtual access of doctor's opinion to the rural patients and it is also cost effective. Remote monitoring tools help patients monitoring their health conditions from home saving both time and money. Wearable medical devices like wrist watch help doctors to monitor patients. Another medical technological advancement is human genome sequencing which is helpful to get individual's genome information. Apps like fitbit, pedometres are counting our steps to check how active we are in our daily life, some apps like abs workout can help for home workout sessions and even some apps are there to calculate your BMI rate, to check your calory intake as well as to check your sleep patterns. However, there are few negative impacts on health too. If the healthcare personnel spends more time on technological informations then the person may not know lots of informations about the patient which could be possible when interacting with patient individually. This leads to impersonal or minimized care. Some techniques like chemotherapy or surgical procedure may cause negative effects on patients. With the introduction of new technologies there comes the problem of increased costs of treatments. Sometimes there is inappropriate use of technologies for the specific field due to unawareness of the healthcare provider for that particular technologies. Another problem is invasion of privacy. With the help of electronic health records informations can be shared with both doctors and patients but sometimes misuse leads to loss of personal data and patient's privacy.

I recommend student to choose the specific technology what he or she is using in daily life and even if he or she is not using also student can prepare the answer by using above informations for the question no 2 and 3.