Caring In The Healthcare System

6) Caring is “displaying kindness and concern for others” , This relationship will look differently when applied to a traditional face to face encounter without technology, versus in a smart healthcare application in the IoT. Systems can’t care about people. The patient may complain (or possibly praise) a smart healthcare system if the system was a human and capable of caring. But, setting aside this artificial intelligence sense of caring in a system, how does one incorporate the caring quality into a smart healthcare system and measure that quality?. We might assume that technology will increase the caring distance. It is possible, however, that caring may be estimated higher in a smart versus non-smart equivalent healthcare system. For example, as …show more content…
Research to determine that standard minimum level of caring will also be needed.For healthcare systems to continue to advance, technology must be an early and ongoing part of the conversation with stakeholders, and nurses in particular. Nurses lead the day-to-day care of a hospitalized patient, and they are, in most cases, the health care providers having the most patient contact. Technology can assist nurses in better patient care, but nurses must value and integrate these technologies and not see them as an impediment. Nurses must be involved early in requirements elicitation of smart healthcare systems to assure that the human connection is not compromised or lost. Nurses often struggle with balancing technology and patient contact, since technology can remove the nurse from the direct contact with the patient. Conversely, technology has helped improve patient care by allowing for better assessment, surveillance, and