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I would like to elaborate more on this topic by summing up few advantages of application of technology in healthcare sector.

The Digitalization of Health Records: with implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR), the healthcare institutions are relieved of massive paperwork to maintain patients’ records. The patients and their consultants can easily see the records at the click of button. This led to greater patient care as the EHR guides physician sending automatically to patients’ potential issues such as allergies and intolerance to certain medicine.

Researchers can be benefitted with the EHRs as it provides invaluable data helping to advance medical knowledge and treatment development for common health issues.

A study at University of Michigan, reported reduced cost of outpatient care by 3% by shifting from paper records to EHRs.

The data experts informed multiple benefits as: Reducing healthcare cost, predicting epidemics, avoiding preventable deaths, improving quality of life, reducing healthcare waste, improving efficiency and quality of healthcare, developing new drugs and treatment.

Telemedicine or telehealth which is mostly used for remote area is other technology implementation in healthcare. It has applications like live video, store and forward, remote patient monitoring and mobile health. Using health apps for follow-up visits, it improves the probability of follow-up, reducing missing appointments and optimizing patient’s outcome.

Can peers shed more light in major advantages of technology applications?