Technology Helping or Hindering?

In terms of health care, technology is helping physicians overcome many communication barriers. Some relationships that suffer due to communication barriers include physician to patient, physician to physician as well as physician to distance physician. Devices such as hearing aid, translating devices, and personal communication computers allow health care professionals to communicate with their patients in a more effective. A physician to physician relationship is one of the most vital relationships in a health care facility. This is because physicians are continually communicating with other physician about patient health, which includes patient records. Devices that make this communication more efficient include patient record databases, filing systems and pagers. Patient record databases also make communication between physician and distant physician more efficient when consultation is necessary.