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The Internet is impacting all institutions.Technology is infiltrating medicine by providing new equipment, new ways of examining the body, and now as telemedicine.
Bioengineering is becoming the lifeblood of health care system, and yme-sandiego.org is here to report on it. A doctor’s office visit is no longer a necessity. Patients can connect with doctors through the computer. Point of care philosophies make the latest technological advancements and cures available globally. Methods used in the Far East and Europe can now be linked with western medicine for a 360 degree panorama of medical options. Molecular imaging is the next phase for looking in the body. Disease process leaves biomarkers in cells and tissues. These biomarkers can be targeted for early diagnosis and detection. Neuroscience is advancing rapidly. More has been learned in the last ten years than in the previous hundred on how to stimulate cell growth and repair damaged nervous tissue. It is all due to tech devices tracking data and providing noninvasive imaging techniques. Regenerative medicine is allowing technicians to grow tissue for needs rather than graft tissue. Tissue growth can be tweaked to provide a better match for the recepient. Medical robots from nanobots to large machines providing examination and surgery are becoming common.
New jobs are created for technicians and technolgists to maintain and run the machinery. Nurses will need increased technological knowledge to handle all the new medical gadgets. Medicine will have to change the way it does business. More and more medicine is moving back into our homes and daily life instead of being a separate entity that people visit.
