5 Ways Technology is Cutting Costs to Common Medical Approaches

 
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Here are five more ways that medical technology is becoming more efficient and widely available.

New medical technology is often expensive to develop. With modern technology speeding up the process in which we develop new procedures, you can be sure that new and exciting things are always just around the corner. This process of innovation becomes cost effective in the long run as its use becomes widespread, and its cost saving benefits become more apparent. Take a look at some of the most modern innovations that have turned toward the more cost effective route because.

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Laser Eye Surgery

Common eye defects such as short sightedness and long sightedness have always required spectacles to correct. Glasses are quite expensive especially if one has to wear a designer pair that is modern and fashionable. Additionally, glasses have to be changed every few years as the eyes progressively become weaker. Laser eye surgery is able to permanently correct eye defects without the need for glasses ever.

Dental Implants

Tooth loss due to age, decay, or accidents has become a serious problem. The common remedy derived from old technology has been to fit dentures. These however are fraught with problems since they are uncomfortable and require expensive adjustments and changes every so often. Dental implants from Insero on the other hand, utilize a titanium root onto which a customized crown is firmly attached. After fitting, no other maintenance is needed and they continue functioning as normal teeth for life.

3D Printing

Miniature hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, back braces, and other mechanical aids to help patients have always been quite expensive to produce. This is due to the uniqueness and customization needed to suit the product to the user. With the development of 3D printing, it is now possible to make all these health aides to highly accurate specifications, and at minimal cost.

Video Conference Surgery

Highly specialized surgeons are rare. They are often only found in big hospitals in big cities. This has resulted in the need for either patients to be transported over great distances to be treated, or for the special surgeons to go where the patients are. This movement entails enormous costs. Video conferencing however, has enabled general surgeons to conduct complex surgeries under the guidance of distant specialists through video conferencing thus saving great cost.

Point of Care Diagnostic Testing

The process between admission, testing, diagnosis, and treatment of patients is normally long and time consuming. It involves many people and is expensive. Point of care diagnostics simplify the process of treatment in hospitals by having all these activities done at one point and by one person.

Many technologies have been developed and many more are in the process of being released. They continue helping us to live longer, healthier, and more productive and cost effective lives.

By Meghan Belnap

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