8 MAY - 2022Lynn A. GibsonHealthcare is changing. It was changing before the pandemic. Everything changes as it is the nature of things to change in some manner. The questions become what will the change bring? It was not that long ago those doctors made house calls now they are virtual visits. Today's hospitals were known as sanatoriums. Places that you really did not wanted to go to get better. Geriatric medicine and interventional radiology became identified as specialties in the latter half of the twentieth century. The idea of an electronic medical record was a dream being worked and developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Telemedicine was talked about for decades with limited use until this past year. So where will healthcare go from here? Before we venture into the future, perhaps we could benefit from a ride done memory lane. A look back to the last twenty years finds advances in vaccines, surgical techniques, the mapping of the human genome, and drug developments for treatments in cardiology, oncology, neurology, rheumatology, Hepatitis C, HIV and more. If the advancements in medicine and healthcare were placed in comparison to the known history of mankind, you would likely By Lynn A. Gibson, Ex-VP/Chief Technology Officer, Information Services, CHRISTUS HealthThe Future of HealthcareIN MY OPINION
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