Emerging Medical Technology

By: Kaitlin Reilley

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Its amazing to see how technology has changed over the years. When we were kids we
all had flip phones and know we have the iPhone six plus. Has it ever occurred to you that on
top of technology we use every day the medical technology that keeps us all healthy has also
changed? Well it has, your medical information is no longer in a big old yellow folder and your
blood pressure is checked by a machine. The medical world is evolving rapidly to make health
care cheap, fast, and more efficient (asme).
Going to Google makes finding information about anything very easy. The article I found
on emerging medical technologies has put into perspective how much everything around us is
rapidly changing pretty much every day. When it comes to making new medical technology the
FDA has the last word as to whether it is safe and efficient enough to use on the human body.
This process can take a very long time seeing as how new technology is thought of every day so
the FDA has made this process a lot faster. The Medical Devise Innovation Consortium or MDIC
for short cuts what used to be a long process in half (asme).
I was amazed by the technology I read about and how the medical world has invented
such things. The first invention I read about was a machine that is going to help cut back on
melanoma biopsies. Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer (asme). There is even a
small implant of electronic aspirin. This implant is for people who suffer from migraines, cluster
headaches, and other causes of chronic excruciating head or facial pain (asme). Now these
inventions seem to cut back a lot of pain from the human body, but what if that pain was even
worse? What if that pain was someone who needed a new heart valve but couldnt endure the
surgery? Well the answer to the pain is the Sapien Transcatheter Aortic Valve (asme). Many
people in the world today suffer from diabetes. With the invention of the diabetic patch there
will be no more need for drawing blood and poking yourself with any more needles (asme).
Finally the last invention I read about was called the medical robot. Wouldnt it seem really cool
to have your doctor be in the room, but not really in the room? Well with machine thats
possible. The robot is a two way screen that allows a doctor to be in with a patient but not
really be there. This machine allows a doctor to be in more than one place at a time (asme).
Looking at all these inventions they all have one thing in common, they all possess the three
main criteria that the medical world is trying to enforce. Cheaper, faster, and more efficient.
For my second search engine I choose to use Yahoo. I picked Yahoo because similar results
appeared as when I used Google as my search engine. My options for this part were Yahoo and
Bing. I like Bing and that is normally the search engine I use, but I didnt choose Bing this time
because it didnt use my key words the way Yahoo and Google did. The first website I clicked on
using Bing was about insurance which is not what I was searching for at all. Yahoo however the
first website was on ten new inventions which were similar to the five I talked about in part
two. Using Yahoo as my main search engine would have made part two very simple just like
Google made it. If Bing would have come up with the better websites to use I would have
choose that over Yahoo and Google.


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1. Time: The article I used on Yahoo was written in 2011 but has been slightly updated
with new information for todays newer inventions.
2. Relevance: The website I picked was related to my topic and was a big in finding the new
technologies of todays medical field.
3. Authority: The authors of this article are Thomas Collins and Michael Sweeny. I search
Michael Sweeny and found that he is a composer and internet collector which in my
eyes makes me eligible to talk about the information on the site. However when I
searched Thomas Collins a bunch of drink recipes appeared so Im not too sure on him
and his reliability.
4. Accurate: This information is trustworthy seeing as how most of the inventions are used
today to help people. The evidence used for this article is that most of the inventions
are used today, like the brain implant for people how suffer from seizures.
5. Purpose: the purpose of this article is to inform and to persuade. I say both because the
article informs you of the new inventions being used as well as new ones soon to come
but it also seems to be trying to persuade doctor offices and hospitals to use these new
inventions on patients.


For part 5 I used Google scholar as my research data base because it was easier
to find journal articles on the information I was looking for than to use the CCBC library.
Using Google scholar made it very easy to find journal articles on emerging medical
technologies. Google scholar used my key words carefully and gave me the best results.
The articles are exactly what I was looking for.

When comparing a search engine article to a search engine journal article it is
easy to see that the regular article is going to be the most up to date information. The
Google and Yahoo articles were published in 2013 and 2011 giving them the upper hand
in newer technologies. The journal article is not far behind though being published in
2009, but things change fast and from 2009 to 2014 newer and better things have come
into picture. When it comes down to ease of access I feel like both are tied for not being
that simple. So web pages are blocked and you have to have special access to view them
and some journal articles are so old they dont exist anymore but are still found in the
search results they just send you to a different page. I was lucky however in that all my
articles were up to date and worked perfectly fine. The authority of an article the
journal articles have the web articles beat. Anyone can make up a web page its so
simple and they could make it about anything they wanted. With a journal article
however it is written by a true person how has done massive amounts of research and
has prof-read and wrote their articles probably a thousand times to make sure they are
perfect. I feel using a mixture of the two times allows for a better understanding of the
information because it allows you to take what the web says and compare it to what a
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researcher has written about, both giving you insight on the information you are
searching.



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