Past, Present, and Future Efforts for Improving the Healthcare Sector (Research Paper Sample)

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Past, Present, and Future
In the past, the healthcare sector has witnessed tremendous achievements, including the invention of vaccines to control diseases and the introduction of technologies such as x-rays for patient diagnosis. These achievements have implications in the current and future health world. In the contemporary world, there are several health concerns that have been initiated by the change in lifestyles and consumption trends attributed to technological advancements. One of the global health concerns that have impacted my community is the increase in cases of obesity, which is attributed to the excessive intake of calories and lack of exercise, thereby increasing the body mass index (Rosenthal et al., 2017). It is becoming challenging to handle the issue, especially amongst the American population and other affluent countries. Given the technological progress witnessed in the globe, healthcare institutions have adopted the use of electronic health records when dispensing health services, and some of the surveillance data that could be pulled from athenahealth, which I have used before include the medical history of the patients, demographics, diagnoses, healthcare costs and laboratory data concerning the illness and treatments (Kruse et al., 2018). #ThinkDigitalHealth, one of the compelling tweets that I came across in a nursing informatics Twitter feed, entails the growing concern over interoperability in healthcare where providers and payers are struggling to