Technological Trends in Health Care

Running head : Technology trends in health care

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Abstract

There have been serious technical errors that have been experienced in the past that affect medical field . These errors are experienced during the administration or transcriptions of drugs . The life of a human being is too precious to be left to hang precariously in the mercy of technology . There have been technologies that have been developed to ensure that the transactions that are handled by the medical staff are handled well . To help in the mitigation of these errors , there are technologies like bar-code which have been developed . The bar-code technology is administered within a system which is based on electronic medication-administration system (bar-code eMAR . These are the two technologies which have been reported to be very successful in the medical field . Bar-code technology has been used in programs that are home-based these are the programs where services are taken to the clients in the field . With the advent of smart...