Medical Technology DB

400 WORDS APA Style

Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Library Research Assignment

Technology in health care has made is possible for patients to use devices to access

their medical information, monitor vital signs, take tests at home, and carry out a plethora

of other tasks that could only previously be conducted inside the doctor’s office (Topol, 2013).

This enhanced technology is one of the many reasons that there has been a shift from inpatient

to outpatient care. Although patients have benefited greatly from health care technology,

there are also downsides to technology, such as how it has affected the cost of care.

For this Discussion Board assignment, you should complete the following:

• Provide a definition of outpatient care.
• Discuss 2–3 ways in which technological innovations have impacted, or will impact, the delivery of care in the United States.
• Discuss 2–3 ways in which technology has had, or is expected to have, a detrimental impact on the delivery of care.
• Evaluate uses for various technology applications in the healthcare business
• Apply business principles to the management of the healthcare organization

The use of at least 2 scholarly references is required.