technology Flashcards
Discuss your understanding of the evolving role of technology in patient care and diagnostics.
What is the next big medical advancement across the horizon?
Personalised medicine: form of medicine that uses info about a person’s own genes or proteins to prevent/ diagnosis or treat diseases
Why is it useful? Treatments we give will be more tailored and more will work more of the time – however, it may be more expensive however, which means shorter hospital stays – can fit more people in
The current trend is to move away from secondary care and more towards primary and tertiary care—primary = first point, e.g., GP, dentist, and tertiary = specialized treatment, e.g., surgery.
Moving toward primary we can see more prevention of serious illness e.g. obesity/diabetes.
Moving toward tertiary care: we can see more advanced treatment that will be long-lasting – extra degree of specialisation from clinicians
