Question

Improving access to medical care has been a challenge in the U.S. health care system. How has technology affected access to medical care?

Answer 1

1. Information technology has opened up new ways of exploration and research in health care which in turn helps the patients.

2. Patient can access the mode of treatment and the staffs helping them through technology. This gives them safety.

3. Data regarding diseases and their control can be accessed from different sites which help to improve the condition of patients.

4. There are many mobile applications of health care that helps to know the disease and provide remedies once the symptoms are given.

5. Patients can speak to doctors or health care experts via mobile application called telemedicine.

6. Artificial intelligence is providing advice to patients when the symptoms are fed into the system.

7. Non- English speakers may face difficulty once they go to the hospital. Technology help to translate the language and in turn helps the patients.

8. Physicians in rural areas can communicate with experts via video conferencing.

9. Monitoring of patients in remote areas is possible through technology.

10. Data collection of various patients showing same symptoms can be identified easily which in turn help the experts to form opinions about the disease and treat them in advance.