Healthcare automation will probably be the first responsibility of new healthcare administrators. As they are assigned to lowering costs, employing data analysis to support decision-making, and increasing care quality. All this process also helps them to accomplish the tasks easier and faster.
In this article, we will discuss the advantages of healthcare automation jobs; how it could affect the normal operation of our healthcare system. Also if human talent is at risk. Because of this awesome scientific advance or if this is just a tool used by the company to save energy and time.
- What is health?
- How is automation changing the healthcare field?
- What are healthcare robots?
- Which healthcare jobs are most affected by automation?
- How do technological devices work at healthcare centers?
- How can Connect Health help you to improve the management of health care technology?
1. What is health?
This term refers to the state of well-being and balance that a person possesses. It is the object of special attention in the field of medicine. We can also define it as the degree of efficiency of the metabolism and the functions of a human being.
Different factors that influence if you have a healthy lifestyle individual; personal decisions about the practice of healthy and harmful habits to have good health. These factors represent about 45% of health and among them, we find the following; diet, physical exercise, addictions, and risky behaviors. Something real is that people with good habits live longer than those who do not take care of themselves.
Just as we also have emotional and psychological factors that can condition every human being; force them to use their cognitive skills and sensitivity to function within a community; resolve the eventual demands that arise in the framework of daily life and live longer.
1.1 Factors to have a healthy lifestyle
- A healthy diet: that provides the body with essential nutrients and the energy necessary to maintain our physical well-being and prevent disease.
- Physical activity: helps us burn excess calories ingested and tone muscles and bones for old age.
In this way, it is important maintaining good sleep hygiene to recharge the physical and mental energy that we spend during the day. It is important to go to the doctor frequently to detect some type of health problem prematurely. Therefore, it can help us minimize the risks and treat the pathology more effectively.
1.2 What does medical automation mean?
This idea is properly known as the controlled operation of a diagnostic, therapeutic process, or system by a mechanical or electronic device. This means that augments human capabilities for observation, effort, and decision. In the future is expected that your prescription will be waiting at the pharmacy or going directly to your home. Doctors will access your data to diagnose you, without going to a hospital and prescribe the best medication for your illness.
2. How is automation changing the healthcare field?
The employment of artificial intelligence in healthcare automation has been on top for some time now. Even though medical robots are the most particular innovation in this field; there is so much more to take on. For example, using different software companies to promote efficiency in the supply of medical services. These modern techniques help the staff during the journey; also let the family be calm because they can monitor the patient from home through technological tools in the hospital. Giving them attention 24 hours per day and removing any mistake a person could make. These tools are now being used to improve high-performance computing and the managing of volumes of data. Technology also has a prominent impact on most operational and administrative fields.
Healthcare automation allows companies to coordinate and manage a collection of disparate data systems according to business rules. In addition, it also speeds up processes and makes them more affordable, scalable, and completely exact. Healthcare office workers often consider these tasks very disgusting and require little decision-making, judgment, or cleverness, so this is a tool that let them treat the bot as a digital assistant.
New technology trends have been helping humanity for a long time. We are optimizing processes by using many apps that make our lives easier with software tools. Excel or Salesforce are great examples of this evolution. Therefore, we do not need to be afraid of losing our job to a machine; because as humans, we have many abilities that a bot would never copy.
2.1 Humans’ irreplaceable abilities
- Feelings: humans can both sympathize and empathize while machines just copy some of our behaviors. For example, our tone of voice and simulating our empathy. Healthcare relies deeply on patient confidence. Therefore, achieving trust requires an authentic caring approach by the doctor.
- Understanding: a healthcare worker can learn, understand, and deal with unexpected or complex situations much better than a machine. Most of a patient’s care experience is the empathy and assistance of the clinical staff and many others.
- Social activity: to create a bond with the patients we use many gestures; emotions, and speech that cannot be replaced by a robot.
- Taking decisions: it is very difficult for a machine through algorithms to take difficult decisions. Decision-making is something that just a human with many years of wisdom and knowledge will do. For example, decide if someone may live or die.
3. What are healthcare robots?
Robots are becoming one of the most powerful tools in the medical field. Because of their efficient work doing activities related to humans, like surgical assistance. With them, healthcare automation can be a reality.
It is expected that in the future; they will be implemented as assistants since they have greater precision at the time of cutting in surgery. Another benefit is that, unlike humans, robots do not suffer from nausea. Therefore, there will be no margin of error when performing the surgical procedure; in turn, could work through remote applications. Its main applications would be hip operations; surgeries that were initially performed without robots but their use has made them more precise.
Robots are also used as prostheses for amputees; giving them a better quality of life, and allowing them to move around and carry out their activities regularly.
Between the activities of healthcare automation they can perform are:
- Minimizing monotonous tasks and low motivation in hospitals.
- Serving food to patients.
- Transporting medicines and medical records.
- Transporting samples for analysis and remote medical visits.
As machines, they have many types. For example, you can find:
- Nanorobots whose function focuses on conducting internal studies and are capable of navigating inside the body.
- Robots that help staff to dress up.
- Guide robots for blind people.
- Robots that care for the elderly, and so much more.
4. Which healthcare jobs are the most affected by automation?
Some jobs will indeed disappear due to healthcare automation, but most of them will adapt to the technology. However, new technology is still difficult to understand, so careers are still useful. Nevertheless, there are some occupations up to disappear, such as:
- Private medical professionals: their job focuses on helping people who have a particular problem or special needs; this could be in a care home or the patients’ houses. This occupation may be easily replaced by a robot; because it is not so difficult but people usually prefer to care for humans.
- Nursing assistants: mostly help patients of all ages to perform basic daily tasks that they cannot do alone. For example, dressing, feeding, helping patients to walk with a gait belt and other devices, bathing and skincare, or making the bed. They just work under the supervision of a licensed nurse and is their responsibility to keep the nurse informed about the vital information about the patient. This occupation is at risk because nowadays machines a have great capacity of saving information even better than people.
- Pharmaceutical technicians: are medical professionals who work with pharmacists. Helping and supporting patients and being sure they get the best treatment.
- Health care practice managers: professionals who help dentists and physicians to manage the complex business aspects, so they usually have a business background and use their specialized skills to handle the daily elements of the office, robots will assume even these difficult activities.
5. How do technological devices work at healthcare centers?
Among the technological innovations that collaborate with the development of medicine, we can find virtual reality. This is a tool through which professionals get knowledge. Since it allows them to simulate surgeries or procedures in advance as many times as necessary. Subsequently, allowing them to achieve better results at the moment to bring it to reality and reduce the margin of error.
We also find prosthetics that allow patients to recover lost senses, the recovery of senses such as vision, touch, and hearing. In addition; some prosthetics let the patients get back the ability to move that they thought they had lost entirely.
Another important tool is 3D printing a useful tool to detect diseases through sweat. Moreover, it is also capable of simulating organs. Doctors mostly use it in newborns to replace their failing hearts with a valve that gives them a better quality of life.
In the same way, voice recognition technology has made a great contribution to the field of health. Since the tone of voice of patients gives indications of their state of health, helping to prevent possible risks.
Social networks have also made a great contribution. Subsequently, by allowing patients to access reliable information from the comfort of their homes; their goal is to improve the lives of patients and how they take care of their health. As well as providing health professionals and medical centers with the possibility of offering quality care to their patients.
5.1 What will change in the future?
Nano-devices will soon be able to operate as very precise medication systems due to healthcare automation. In other words, Nano-devices will allow patients to be dosed with treatment in a completely new way. One of their most effective applications is insulin pumps; which provide the exact amount of medication to the patient at the right time; without having to worry about forgetting or being late.
Another advance would be artificial intelligence which allows storing a large amount of data about the medical records of patients. As a result, preventing and identifying diseases before they happen; are all this based on health apps.
Last but not least, we have machine learning capable of identifying diseases and diagnosing patients based on their medical history; while saving time for healthcare professionals.Thus, being able to focus on another patient that requires their attention, this is one of the most important goals to the healthcare automation.
6. How can Connect Health help you to improve the management of health care technology?
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