Zenith, I am convinced it is technology that will ultimately be the saving grace in our broken health system. You mention that new technology would cause the loss of jobs for nurses, and aids. I have to respectfully disagree; in chapter 5 of our text we see the calamity that is about to happen to us with the nurse shortage, if on present course by the year 2015 we will have 114,000 jobs go unfilled. Technology needs to eliminate positions to create a balance or our current system will fail. By providing that balance it will eliminate the “Burn Out” condition that our nurses a currently experiencing and bring quality care to the patient. So I believe we have nothing to fear that new technology will create job loss, actually it has been very much the opposite, when I was a child personal computers did not exist let alone Microsoft and the 1000’s they employ.
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TTE, Cost is a big factor and something I have experienced not to long ago. In my last class we had to conduct an interview with a local health care institution. I went to a small local doctor's practice and this very issue was discussed. As much as they wanted to upgrade to new technology they were not able to at this time do to the cost. My opinion is that if only a few large health care institutions can afford the upgrade to new technology then smaller institutions will suffer or even close their doors. A creation of government subsidies would be in the best interest of out government it will keep the market vibrant and create new jobs. Right now the government is in the business of bailing out large companies, when they should have been in the business of creating new cost affected ways to do business such as new technologies.
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