Beneficial technology at my workplace: Scanner
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What technology do you find most beneficial to use in your work or school setting? Least beneficial? Why do you find this tool useful or not? Then, using your imagination, look to the future and think about how this tool could be enhanced even further. Describe your dream technology, with consideration for patient care and safety. How would this apply to informatics? How would you integrate it into healthcare informatics?
Beneficial technology at my workplace: Scanner
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I am a health care practitioner, and the technology that I find to be the most beneficial at my workplace is the scanner. The technology I find least helpful at my place of work is the condom dispenser. A scanner is a machine that uses the technology of bringing together positron emission tomography (PET) and those of X-ray computed tomography (CT) that is able to capture 3D pictures and images in very minimal time, even a flick, and provide the most detailed information from the results (Ozguner et al., 2018). This machine allows doctors to see every inch of the internal human body and makes it easy to determine any internal abnormality. I find a condom dispenser least beneficial because condoms are items that people can get anywhere and, therefore, not necessarily prioritized as a machine in hospitals.
From my imagination, the body scanner can be improved and work even better by marking the affected areas on the patient’s body and being able to carry out minor operations like vasectomy and circumcision without necessarily involving direct doctor participation (Badawi et al., 2019). This tool can be enhanced in the future to do most therapies to cancer patients other than just identifying the affected cells in the body. The improvement can be made safer to deliver one hundred percent results, thus ensuring patient safety.
Adopting these futuristic advancements can be crucial in healthcare informatics. Machines can do large volumes of work faster; therefore, they attend to very many patients. A health care organization can carry out its statistics and record the frequency of illnesses and the demand for medication needed (Gordon & Catalini, 2018). This information generated from the adoption of new technologies can also be used by the government to assist in planning healthcare allocations.
References
Badawi, R. D., Shi, H., Hu, P., Chen, S., Xu, T., Price, P. M., … & Bao, J. (2019). First human imaging studies with the EXPLORER total-body PET scanner. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 60(3), 299-303.
Gordon, W. J., & Catalini, C. (2018). Blockchain technology for healthcare: facilitating the transition to patient-driven interoperability. Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 16, 224-230.
Ozguner, O., Dhanantwari, A., Halliburton, S., Wen, G., Utrup, S., & Jordan, D. (2018). Objective image characterization of a spectral CT scanner with a dual-layer detector. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 63(2), 025027.