HealthIT Answers June 12, 2024
By Katie Brenneman, Writer, Researcher
The quality of care physicians can provide to patients has almost always evolved in conjunction with developing technology. From the invention of the stethoscope in 1816 to the development of MRI scanners in 1978, all the way to modern health records systems created in 2013, technology has always unlocked new methods of disease treatment, allowing physicians to keep pace with patients’ changing medical needs.
Despite this, the modern attitude toward technology in healthcare has been very much wary. Patients and providers alike worry about technology replacing the human element or adding a degree of error to clinicians’ diagnoses.
Are these fears warranted? In short: no. The tools that physicians use to administer to patient needs...
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