Digital technology and health care

Digital technology and health care
With today’s society technology is getting better and better. Today’s Technology is providing us with real time data on sleep, activity, social interaction, isolation, vital signs indicating stress and much more. A recent app was created to test students in order to provide inside to their mental health and academic performance. This study showed that the app correlates student depression level, stress and loneliness with academic performance without any participation from the user. In my opinion Technology is a good and bad thing. In this situation this app is able to monitor patients without them even worrying about when and what to do for monitoring. It also provides nurses with the correct time and activity that is occurring with the patient. However technology does have its problems and is not always correct. That’s why it is always important to check the patient rather then just relying on technology. One thing that pops in my mind when I read about technology is How it is improving in the nursing world. Most recently we have a new bar code scanner for medications which is helping improve medication errors. I have also seen technology being used with patient care. For example I have seen doctors and nurses go into patients rooms with iPads to teach them education on medications and therapy treatments. I can see in the future patients wearing a wristband that automatically takes their vital signs. Almost like the new Apple Watch word tracks How many hours of sleep you have, how many steps you walked in the day, and more. Lastly, I liked reading about the app designed for veterans undergoing rehabilitate. These vets can benefit greatly from such support when navigating difficult recovery after traumatic war injuries. In conclusion, technology is just going to keep improving ways to make the health care a safer place to help decrease errors and improve patient care.