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Magnifying Glass was created
Roger Bacon constructed the first magnifying glass. This is a gateway for many medical types of equipment as more advanced technologies progressed such as microscopes (Kriss and Kriss 1998) -
Development of the plastic contact lenses
Advancing from eyeglasses, this is the first model of contact lenses we use today
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Development of Telemedicine
A convenient modality of care, bring quality health care virtually
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Development of the Electronic Health Record
Before EHRs were created, records were documented manually causing an array of errors to occur (Evans 2016) -
Laser refractive surgery
Rangaswamy Srinivasan, discovered the technique for ultraviolet to cut through living tissue. This technique would later grow into other laser refractive surgery methods for vision correction. ("LASIK - Wikipedia". 2021)