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<p>Health technology is defined by the <a href="/facts/World_Health_Organization/YNN3bgug">World Health Organization</a> as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives". This includes pharmaceuticals, devices, procedures, and organizational systems used in the healthcare industry, as well as computer-supported <a href="/facts/Information_system/apcSzFLh">information systems</a>. In the United States, these technologies involve standardized physical objects, as well as traditional and designed social means and methods to treat or care for patients. </p>