Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:The Culture of Health Care
Unit:Sociotechnical Aspects: Clinicians and Technology
Lecture:Sociotechnical aspects of health care
Slide content:Clinicians and Technology Medicine is dependent on technology for progress Microscope invented in 1590 In 1675, Anton van Leeuwenhoek uses a microscope to examine blood, cells, and bacteria In 1938, Ernst Ruska develops electron microscopy Researchers now have a detailed understanding of structure of organs in health and disease 5
Slide notes:Medicine and technology are closely interrelated, and one could argue that medicine has traditionally been dependent on technology for its progress. One example that illustrates this point is the story of the microscope. This story begins in Italy, in the fourteenth century, when advances in optics led to a better understanding of lens making. In 1590, the Dutch lens makers Hans and Zacharias [ zak -uh- rahy - uhs ] Jansen, developed the microscope. Eighty-five years later, in 1675, Anton van Leeuwenhoek [ ahn -tone fawn lay - vehn -hook] examined blood, insects, cells, and bacteria under the microscope. In another advance, in 1938, Ernst Ruska [ ehrnst ruhs -kuh ] developed the technique of electron microscopy, which allowed researchers to gain a detailed understanding of the structure of organs at the subcellular level. Each development in technology led to an advancement in medicine. 5