Week 4: MedTech + Art

This week’s lesson focused on how medicine, art, and technology all help one another to advance. Technology is the reason medicine is where it is today. Technology is so important to modern medicine, and there are often new breakthroughs in this industry because of it.


Technology advances medicine


One example of technology influencing medicine is the invention of x-ray and MRI machines. These imaging breakthroughs are extremely important in medicine today, and life would be a lot more difficult without them. Doctors are able to see into our bodies without having to perform surgery, and they can then give us the best treatment. Additionally, we have gone even farther and are now able to see our internals in 3D. These 3D scans help doctors even more, and are just one of the examples of how medicine continues to innovate with the help of technology. 




Technology is also increasingly important when dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. All around the country and the world, people use the internet to schedule appointments to get a covid test or their covid vaccine. These websites take a tremendous amount of skill and effort to put together, let alone the health server infrastructure that is used to store sensitive patient information. Without technology, we would have not has as successful of a rollout of these essential covid measures, nor would we have even been able to create tests or vaccines in the first place. 


California's My Turn vaccine website, MyTurn.CA.GOV


Overall, it is clear that technology is extremely important to the advancement of medicine. I am so excited to see what comes in the future, and I know many lives will be saved by these advances in medicine.



Sources / References:

Casini, Silvia. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations between Science and the Arts.” Ca' Foscari Università di Venezia, Dec. 2011, pp 73-99.

“MRI Scan Used for Heart Disease Could Also Pick Out Aggressive Cancers.” Imaging Technology News, 15 Apr. 2021, www.itnonline.com/content/mri-scan-used-heart-disease-could-also-pick-out-aggressive-cancers. 

“MRI Machine.” Harvard, 2021, www.health.harvard.edu/media/content/images/cr/c88901c0-4e45-4f2d-a094-534002135cf2.jpg.

Technology Advances Medicine. images.ctfassets.net/y5z23yb0t4f0/3AiqCytO1Wmuq4JRC552fn/e83e8efe7cbfe92be89168d8d1726e78/disruptive_dozen_medical_technology.jpg. Accessed 23 Apr. 2021.

Vesna, Victoria. “Medicine pt1.” YouTube, n.d. Web. 21 April 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk&t=1s.

Vesna, Victoria. “Medicine and Art: Part 2.” YouTube, n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psjnQarHOqQ.

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