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Technology in Healthcare: Recent Innovations and Their Implications
Although the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has abated in the United States somewhat, its adverse medical effects are still creating a significant public healthcare burden, most especially in emerging economies. The introduction of multiple innovations in healthcare technologies in recent years, however, has facilitated the ability of practitioners to improve patient care in more efficient ways, including responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose of a recent study by Kodali and Das (2021) was to evaluate the range of innovative digital healthcare-related technologies as well as how they are currently being used and what constraints exist to their widespread adoption by practitioners.
The range of healthcare-related technologies that have been introduced over the past 20 years or so includes mobile health applications, telemedicine, point-of-contact devices, electronic healthcare records, clinical decision-making programs and global positioning systems, all of which have contributed to the improvement in the provision of high-quality and timely healthcare services. To their credit, the authors provide a concise but comprehensive description of each of these technologies together with an assessment concerning their ability to improve the delivery of healthcare services in various settings. In addition, Kodali and Das (2021) emphasize that various new...…care.
Finally, Kodali and Das (2021) also note that there are some significant constraints to the greater diffusion of recent technolo0gical innovations in healthcare services, including most especially economic considerations. As Kodali and Das (2021) conclude, While the opportunities are ample, the deployment of these technologies is faced with slow diffusion, limited adoption, digital illiteracy, technical, human resource and financial challenges (p. 642). In sum, the authors present a useful assessment concerning the uptake and diffusion of recent technological innovations in healthcare services as well as what challenges still remain to realizing the full range of benefits that can accrue to their…
References
Kodali, P. B., & Das, S. (2021). Digital health technologies for universal health coverage: a promising change. Current Science, 120(4), 637.
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