How Have Advances in Medical Technology Improved Healthcare

Every day doctors are discovering new cures and new technologies that are helping to treat and prevent ailments and illnesses. Improvements in fields such as communications, research, data tracking, and information gathering as well as advancements in medical technology such as Dialysis machines, X-ray and MRI machines have radically improved health care and in many cases have helped to save people’s lives. In 1943, Willem Johan Kolff created the first dialyzer using various objects such as cans, a washing machine etc. to treat patients who had kidney failures. Two years later the machine successfully saved a woman’s life. The purpose …read more