Question

Assess the characteristics of medical care culture that encourages the focus on high technology solution to preventable problems

Answer 1

Healthcare technology can be defined as all drugs, devices and medical and surgical procedures used in medical care, as well as the organizational and supporting systems within which such care is provided. Higher rate of disease progress has been seen since last decades as more and more diseases are spreading and taking place in society due to higher rates of gene mutations such as zika virus, diabetes, HIV, Cancer and so on. Current healthcare practices focus on instant cure of diseases rather than preventive measures for it in US. This is general culture of health care sector now a days due to economic and technological factors dated from the early 20th century till date, remain strong barriers to effective disease prevention as well as patients attitude towards treatment is the major factor for this culture change now a days.
Current lifestyle of people is some what responsible for this culture people wants instant relief from illness but no buddy is ready to compromise with their life style as a preventive measure. Researches in health technology can serve us for betterment of preventive culture. As follows
1. Use latest high tech machineries and pathology tests to screen the possible subjects of disease and we can treat them before the critical situation occurs.
2. By means of technology we can monitor the data base of patient history and family history which can give idea about patients feasibility of future health complications and can be treated accordingly.
3. Technology revolution can be used for complex identification test and isolation of such subjects to prevent the further spreading of disease's.
4. Preventive healthcare promotions can be done using this technology to make people aware about healthy and non healthy lifestyle habits.
5. Again by means of research nd technical skills we can develop the vaccines and sera's for the prevention of genetic mutant disease such as Zika virus and others.
6. This latest revolution in healthcare technology can play important role in prevention of various conditions once it gets adopted by the people's of US in their day to day routine lifestyle.