Is technology helping or hindering when it comes to overcoming communication barriers in health care?

From my knowledge about health care in my perspective, I feel that technology helps to overcome communication barriers in health care. This doesn’t just include verbal communication over telephone anymore, but visual and written communication can be done as well through webcam and email. We are provided with different methods of communication, meaning different levels of comfort for the user. Today, the convenience of the internet service even allows us to conduct research and obtain information in a matter of seconds if we have insufficient data. With rapid access to any kind of information, research can be done a lot faster therefore increasing the rate of development in health care which I think is an accomplishing improvement that benefits all of us.

Technology reaching out to health care [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved November 30, 2008 from the Health Information Technology Summit Web site: http://www.hitsummit.com/past3/index.html