Promoting The Use of Updated Technology to Increase Effective Communication and Care in Inpatient Hospitals

In the 1960s, it was discussed how technology could be used to improve healthcare. Technology will be the key that will allow us to become more capable of assessing a patient’s physiology and potentially predicting conditions before they become life-threatening in the future. Technology such as EKG machines, AEDs, cardiac monitors, and telehealth have already made it possible to monitor a patient’s physicality and communicate without being face-to-face. As a result, providers make better decisions about a patient’s care and patients have become increasingly involved in their own care. This project is important because it expands on the changes that are coming to the future of healthcare and how technology will be on the frontier of that change. Objective: The purpose of this project is to introduce or analyze interventions that entail integrating more innovative technology into healthcare to enhance the quality of patient care. There are many studies about how technology is being utilized in care and communication. The literature implies that when technology is used to try to improve the quality of healthcare there is a positive correlation in care and communication. Method: A literature review will be used. We will analyze the date using a content analysis to find correlations between technology and improvements in patient care. Results: The results will reveal that use of more innovative technology for communication and care will have a positive correlation in greater patient satisfaction and fewer patient crisis