Technology is constantly evolving which means that there are many opportunities to invent new ways to handle day to day chorus. We are no strangers to the fact that some jobs are being replaced by robots and that we are easier accessible due to technology. However, we tend to forget that technology doesn't have to take over our lives but it can help us to come up with answers to the most challenging questions. One of these uses is to use programming for medical purposes.
Now-a-days we are inventing apps that can check blood pressure, dashboards that can do regular check-ups and algorithms to calculate the risk for cardiovascular diseases. The Royal college of Physicians is constantly encouraging their doctors to get involved in technology and co-operate with software developers to be able find new techniques to save lives.
NHS have also realised the importance of technology and established NHS hack day where they are trying to combine technology with medicine. The inventions they are working on at the moment are everything from being able to see how long the wait is at the closest A&E to using an app for cell counts to find imbalances in the blood. The possibilities are endless as you can see.
With the growth of technological solutions to medicine there is now PMS (Patient management software) that can help to diagnose the patient. The software out there can give an indication how severely ill the patient is which will give the hospitals an opportunity to treat the patients in the right order which can speed up the medical care.
I won't go into more detail since I am still learning about these different software. However, I believe that this is only the start and we are already able to see a doctor online or check that our vitals are good with just our phones. With the growth of AI and programming we will hopefully soon be able to use technology to diagnose the patients. The better the software is trained to recognize different illnesses the more accurate it will be. I certainly believe that we will always need doctors though. There will always be rare illnesses and bugs in systems that might need some overseeing. Yes, doctors make mistakes too but we shouldn't simply rely on computers but integrate them in our lives the best way possible. Hospitals and doctors would not be able to do the same job if it wasn't for code and therefore we need to continue exploring new ways to improve technology so it can modify our own personal code(DNA) to be healthier and happier.
Some sources:
http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20013722
http://nhshackday.com/previous/projects/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_management_software
Now-a-days we are inventing apps that can check blood pressure, dashboards that can do regular check-ups and algorithms to calculate the risk for cardiovascular diseases. The Royal college of Physicians is constantly encouraging their doctors to get involved in technology and co-operate with software developers to be able find new techniques to save lives.
NHS have also realised the importance of technology and established NHS hack day where they are trying to combine technology with medicine. The inventions they are working on at the moment are everything from being able to see how long the wait is at the closest A&E to using an app for cell counts to find imbalances in the blood. The possibilities are endless as you can see.
With the growth of technological solutions to medicine there is now PMS (Patient management software) that can help to diagnose the patient. The software out there can give an indication how severely ill the patient is which will give the hospitals an opportunity to treat the patients in the right order which can speed up the medical care.
I won't go into more detail since I am still learning about these different software. However, I believe that this is only the start and we are already able to see a doctor online or check that our vitals are good with just our phones. With the growth of AI and programming we will hopefully soon be able to use technology to diagnose the patients. The better the software is trained to recognize different illnesses the more accurate it will be. I certainly believe that we will always need doctors though. There will always be rare illnesses and bugs in systems that might need some overseeing. Yes, doctors make mistakes too but we shouldn't simply rely on computers but integrate them in our lives the best way possible. Hospitals and doctors would not be able to do the same job if it wasn't for code and therefore we need to continue exploring new ways to improve technology so it can modify our own personal code(DNA) to be healthier and happier.
Some sources:
http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20013722
http://nhshackday.com/previous/projects/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_management_software
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