The Double-Edged Scalpel: Constructive and Destructive Implications of Technology in Health
Author : Shiny Vincent
Abstract :
Modern healthcare has made technology to be a necessity as it has revolutionized the way diseases are diagnosed, treated, and handled. This review focuses on the duality of technology, the positive and negative effects on health systems. Based on forty peer-reviewed articles out of almost 950 sources, the paper discusses how artificial intelligence, telemedicine, electronic health records, and robotic surgery as innovations have enhanced accessibility, accuracy, and efficiency in patient care. Meanwhile, it discusses the related issues, such as threats to data privacy, digital disparity, burnout in clinicians, and human touch. It is a paper on the duality of technology in health and how technology has presented us with its good magic and its most awful pitfalls and how the readers of this paper can consider how we can use this two-edged scalpel which has both good and evil sides to it.
Keywords :
Digital health, Artificial intelligence, Telemedicine, Healthcare technology, Ethical implications, Data privacy, Health equity.
