Can technology help doctors understand patients better?

Patients have a growing concern that the influx of computers in clinical care will greatly depersonalize clinical care. Their complaints against technology concern the disruption of the doctor-patient relationship as the doctor might pay more attention to the computer screen than the patient. In accordance with this idea, doctors do find technology highly interesting, especially to review medical reports, images and scans as they consider it a part of their scientific core competence. Then again, it is unfair to pit digital technology against humanistic clinical care. Instead of a confrontation of such extreme sides it is wiser to have technology work in tandem with a humanistic approach for the benefit of both the doctor and patient. Rather than a distraction, technology helps doctors diagnose easily and better, thus, sparing them more time to interact personally with their patients.

The first requisite for a doctor upon seeing a patient is medical, that is, to correctly diagnose the condition and design a treatment plan. Doing a good job of this as a clinical scientist is a necessary prerequisite for the doctor to move on to the next part of handling the patient’s emotions and psyche. A doctor must be equipped with the skill set required to perform these two complimentary tasks. Read more about the tasks at http://blog.drmalpani.com/2012/11/how-computers-can-help-doctors-to.html