Artifact #8

I was the one who actually picked out this artifact because I found it very interesting, and thought that many people probably use some of the things talked about in sometime of their life. The article is about how many people are using the internet or applications on their smartphones to diagnose or treat their health problems now days. The statistics that they show are crazy with their size. They say that eighty percent of people search for health info online, fifty-seven percent of people go online with their medical problems, and there are more than six-thousand health and medicine applications. The main website that they talk about is WebMD which is a very popular medical site that the users can get answers of their medical questions. They also say that most of these sites are used for doctors to learn some things also. It lets the patients and the doctors interact with one another, which will probably help the medical field in the future. They then talk about the mobile apps that anyone can download to their phones. You can get tips for exercise and diets, and with your mental health. Most of these apps are for people that are in between visits are just have questions. One downside that is you do have to pay a small few for these apps, but they only will run you $1.99 to $4.99. Another thing that they talk about is places that people can go to talk to other patients with the same illness as them selves. All of these things are going to help the medical field in years to come.
I really thought this article was interesting because I know a lot of people that use these websites and apps for their medical questions all the time. I believe that this will become more and more popular because it is very fast and the users can get their questions answered anywhere that they want with their mobile devices. If you can find and be sure that the websites or apps are completely correct because of the doctors that are behind them, and I think that this will only get easier because of the way people now days research. I also think that the medical field will grow and get better with these because it lets the doctors get some feedback on the practices and drugs that they use. I think that this is the best way for medical devices and practices to get better because the doctors get the information straight from the source, and the patients will most likely be very honest with the results that they get. Also, I think that this will help patients because they wont always have to pay for the medical attention that they think that they need. A lot of people have a problem with thinking that they need to see a doctor when they really don’t need to, and these app or websites will probably make the people handle their issues by them selves sometimes. I truly believe that these websites and apps will help in the future in some way.