Introduction Modern healthcare technological advances have had a profound impact on the quality of healthcare. This includes breakthroughs in areas like biotechnology, molecular diagnostics, and diagnostic imaging surgical techniques, among others. Advancement in medical technology has been caused by several factors including the demand by consumers for better health, presence of health insurance systems that pay for new technological advancements, and the desire by medical experts to provide thebest treatment to their patients, due to competition with other professionals. This discussion looks at the impact that medical technological advances have had on how people perceive healthcare matters. Information Technology and Healthcare Today, health care is heavily reliant on information technology. Health information technology has brought about various benefits including advanced quality of patient care, less paper work, efficientadministration, less medical expenses, avoiding medical blunders, improvingaccess to medical care, better monitoring of the management of chronic diseases, detecting communicable disease epidemics timely, among others. All in all there has been a streamlined treatment flow for the patients and efficient and peak performance for the doctors (Anon 10). Health care facilities use technological devices in the management of health care information to help them in making decisions. Examplesof modern health care technologies include electronic prescribing systems like computerized physician order entry systems, electronic medical records system and clinical decision support system.These help to avoid errors in prescriptions and assist physicians to track disease management and referrals. Healthcare dispensing technologies include automated dispensing machines, bar-coding at medication dispensing and robot for medication dispensing, which prevent drug errors. Administration technologies include bar-coding at medication administration and electronic medication administration records. These technologies help to avoid any medical errors and injuries that would have occurred while using manual systems (Sneddon 8). Electronic health care records provide access to information about patients and help to monitor their progress. A Computerized Provider Order Entry system will assist in making laboratory orders, discharges, referrals, transfers and procedures. Clinical Decision Support systems provide physicianswith information about what diagnostic and treatment procedures they should undertake for various ailments,while a Picture Archiving and Communications system brings together, stores and circulates images from devices like x-rays and computer tomography scans. On the other hand, Radio Frequency Identification technology helps in keeping track of the patients’progress and medication via a wireless system of communication. Bar-coding helps in matching medication to patients using bar codes on the drugs and bracelets on patients’ arms (Sneddon 10). There are various wireless devices that have greatly impacted on healthcare, for instance, wireless devices that collect information and send it to a person’s mobile phone. These encourage people to embrace physical fitness by using various wireless scales to computeinform