Monday, February 1, 2010
Before answering the questions about Technology and Health Care, we must first consider quality and effectiveness of care. Health care professionals must decide what treatments are actually beneficial to patients and if enhancing these technologies will be cost effective. It is important to consider whether or not developing certain technologies would just be excessive and add expenses to the health care deficit or would these technologies save millions of lives and increase the number of healthy and fruitful years of people.
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I agree with Suzanne's view that quality and effectiveness of care need to be considered as well. There is always a risk involved in use of any medical technology. If this new technology has benefits outweigh the negative outcomes, this innovation improves the diagnosis or treatment of a disease. And therefore improves the quality of health care. However, it does not improve a person’s quality of life if this new advancement comes along with financial burden or other health risks. It is government’s responsibility to assure the safety of a new technology before the device becomes available to the public. Have one technology full researched on its efficacy and outcomes is desirable to assure the quality. However, we must bear this in mind that the cost of health care may be raised due to excessive research effort and avoid making health care too pricy to afford.
ReplyDeleteAlso, physicians need to be fully educated on a new technology’s benefits and risks before they have the ability to assist patients making these medical decisions. Public may not have the ability to make decisions on their health care due to lack of knowledge. It’s also government’s responsibility to ensure physicians help patients to understand the impacts of one treatment on their life.