Effect of Technology on communication in Healthcare Sitting
Nowadays, technology is a part of our daily life because it used for everything that we practiced such as in schools, hospitals, banks, and companies, it is very important especially in healthcare sitting. It provides changes in health field to be interactive, improve quality of care, and reduce the communication failure. Also, doctors and nurses can used it to plan, organized, document, and review the clinical care. However, the use of technology on communication have effects especially in nursing practice because it impacts their practice in a good way to reduce errors, provide better treatment and reduce suffering and save times. This essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of technology on communication in healthcare sitting.
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First, improve the care for patient and worker efficiency by make the patient safer and more reliable. physicians and nurses use computers to record the history, lab tests, vital signs, and check medications in patient's file, and can know what is the procedure that has been done to the patient. Next reduce the errors especially medications errors. For example, nurse can enter patient's name with patient's medical record and see all medication that be ordered from the physician in the system. Also, the technology allow the patients to recognize and understand a visual perspective about their health such as X- ray, CT, Radiograph, and other visual representations that could help the patients to gain knowledge. Moreover, it provides easy method to look up in patient's data if they ask for it. In addition, it has a chance to patient for contact and call the hospital and doctor's office to ask important questions instead of going to the emergency