Technology and the Future of Healthcare
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- 1 December 2013
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Public Health Research
- Vol. 2 (3), e28
- https://doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2013.e28
Abstract
Healthcare changes dramatically because of technological developments, from anesthetics and antibiotics to magnetic resonance imaging scanners and radiotherapy. Future technological innovation is going to keep transforming healthcare, yet while technologies (new drugs and treatments, new devices, new social media support for healthcare, etc) will drive innovation, human factors will remain one of the stable limitations of breakthroughs. No predictions can satisfy everybody; instead, this article explores fragments of the future to see how to think more clearly about how to get where we want to go.Keywords
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