. In what other areas of medicine would you expect technology to make inroads next? Where do you think it would be most beneficial, and how would it change the way doctors and nurses work today? Provide several examples.
Future of Medical Technology
Changes in government sponsored entitlement programs will absorb most of the health industry's IT capacity over the next few years. Just keeping up with new programs and changes to existing programs will keep everyone busy.
Offices will become increasingly paperless, a process that will increase accountability to government agencies and private
insurance companies.
Improved cost capture and billing justification systems.
The health care industry will continue to standardized data structures to improve communications between billing groups.