The Importance of Computers in the Medical Field

     

Use of computer in the hospital is not yet implemented or fully implemented here in the Philippines because of so many reasons and one of them is we do not have enough budget for computer operating or paperless procedures in our hospitals. though using it I know that I can help our nurses to at least save some time for writing and just focus on the intervention they need to perform for their client. Actually, there are many benefits of using computer operated in the hospital, example, we can send the result from MRI to the OR as fast as 2seconds by not spending energy walking from the MRI to OR. It could all save us time but we all know that with advantages and benefits there are some disadvantages or losses at the end. Like power interruption specially here in the Philippines, it occurs so much and sometimes there are errors or worst it could be hack and be used against hospital so that they could pay ransom money to release the information of the clients in the hospital. These are just some examples of the benefits and risks.

                As a student nurse, I know that with the use of computer and operating system we all can agree that it will all save us time the writing and be ready to perform the procedures plus it will give us time to prepare just before the procedure or operation will be performed. It is not easy for us to buy all computers for the whole hospital but at least put it into wards or departments where critical patients are residing or where we think it could be more useful. We all are hoping change, not changes overnight but the gradually changes in our health sector is a big thing our government would do for us and for their people. Using this software’s could help us build trust with each other and build a community where our patient can communicate to us without getting exhausted from trip to hospital or from coming to the city to get check-up. When our patient know that they can contact us through our hospital sources or lines then we can guarantee that our client will be satisfied with our work because now, with the use of software and computer, we can communicate to our client with ease and focusing on the intervention we need to perform so that they are all well.  We all just need to explain it further, learn the benefits and risks of using open-source software or free software in the hospital. We need to learn to adopt and we know that we need these things, maybe not now but we all know there will come a time that we all going to need it so why not give a room for the information it can get us. In that way I think that we can improve ourselves and our client-nurse relationship.

                It may be seemed too impossible to have it now on our country but if we only take our chances when we got lecture from it, we can learn many things about it. It is not just about the budget that we will need, we also need to weigh the benefits it could get us from developing our works. It could help us all we just need to learn how to properly use it.