Hacker Noon December 9, 2019
The healthcare industry garnered a very sad reputation for being slow at technology adoption. A recent study revealed that 89 percent still use fax machines and 39 percent still depend on pagers or landlines to communicate.
There are multiple reasons for technology’s failure to fully penetrate the health economy beyond the Fitbits many of us wear on our arms, and the rare robotic assistants we see in modern day surgeries. There is very poor integration of technology with the medical field and the key reasons being the extremely high costs associated with it, the proliferation of reluctant healthcare professionals who do not have the time to adapt to new systems, the overwhelmingly impersonal nature of technology in an era...
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