Benefits And Drawbacks Of ICT in Medicine
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- ICT can be used to perform life saving operations via robots! For example if someone had a bad heart condition and needed a vital operation and the health professional was unable to perform it then a robot could perform the operation by the commands of another surgeon elsewhere.
- If the computer network goes down, information is unavailable. This could be inconvenient or may even be life threatening
- All staff will need training in the use of the software.
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- Information is always available, cannot be lost, or left sitting on a desk.
- Information is available to users in different locations, such as doctor in clinic, nurse in ward or radiologist in x-ray department.
- Information can be easily read
- Results from tests in hospital can be added to a patient’s record as soon as the test is complete, which will be available immediately to the doctor.
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- Part time staff may not be trained and cannot access vital information.
- Some staff may be resistant or fearful of using ICT.
- It is very expensive to set up.
- Supporting shared decision-making between patients and providers.
- Providing personalized self-management tools and resources.
- Building social support networks.
- Delivering accurate, accessible, and actionable health information that is targeted or tailored.
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Summary
- Facilitating the meaningful use of health IT exchange of health information among health care and public health professionals.
- Enabling quick and informed action to health risks and public health emergencies.
- Increasing health literacy skills.
- Providing new opportunities to connect with culturally diverse and hard-to-reach populations.
- Providing sound principles in the design of programs and interventions that result in healthier behaviors.
- Increasing Internet and mobile access.
- The shift from medical services to prevention and health promotion can be observed. ICT applications in health care should adapt to the new situation,
- The advantages of eHealth implementation are numerous: better access to health care services, cost containment, better quality and safer care, possibility of elearning for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.
- Health is increasingly seen as a driver for – as well as beneficiary of – ICT development.
- Universities and health institutions can implement eHealth in research, education and clinical practice.
ICT in Medicine
Body Scanners
- A body scanner sends electromagnetic rays through a patient’s body and sensors detect how much different parts of the body absorb the rays.
- A computer uses this data to build up an image of the inside of a patient’s body.
- Body scanners allow doctors to find and treat conditions such as tumours in their early stages when the chances of treating them successfully are much greater
Monitoring of Patients
- When a patient is in hospital, they often require close monitoring. It is not possible for a doctor or nurse to monitor patients continuously, 24 hours a day, so computerized monitors are used instead.
- Sensors are attached to the patient. Senors are used to monitor:
-Pulse Rate
-Temperature
-Breathing Rate
-Blood Oxygen Levels
-Blood Pressure
ICT in Medicine
Organ Transplant
- Computerized databases are used to help match patients who are waiting for organ transplants such as a new kidney, liver or heart, with suitable organs from donors.
ICT in Medicine
Monitoring of Patients
- Several outputs from the computer system let hospital staff the patient's condition:
-A large display/monitor shows graphs of pulse, breathing, etc.
-A loud buzzer / alarm can be sounded if there is a problem to attract the attention of a nurse/doctor
-A small printer can produce a hard-copy of the data
- The sensors feed information back to a computer which processes the data:
-Data is checked for any problems (e.g. pulse rate too low/high)
-Data is logged so that it can be checked later.
Monitoring of Patients
- CT scanners and MRI scanners allow doctors to investigate what is happening inside a patient's body without intrusive surgery.
- The complex signals that come back from scanning machines are picked up by sensors and fed into a computer. The computer processes the data, then outputs full-colour images, sometimes in 3D, for the doctor, giving views of the patient's body.
Managing Patient Records
- Computerized databases are used by every hospital in the country to store information about patients. Uses of these databases include:
-Organizing transfer of patients between wards
-Recording the history of a patient’s appointments with consultant
-Booking outpatient appointments
-Booking ambulances
-Ordering equipments
What is ICT?
Introduction
Medical education has undergone profound changes due to recent technological advancements. Medical schools, particularly in the developed countries, have invested heavily in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), not only to deliver education, but also to improve the quality of services that health professionals provide.
ICT is an acronym for information communications technology. ICT is concerned with the storage, retrieval, manipulation, transmission or receipt of digital data. The data is transferred or communicated to people over long distances electronic means.
Basic Concept
Medicine of today is characterized by wide application of new information and communication technologies(ICT) - mobile phones, tele-text, fax and electronic mail (e-mail). The basis for the development and spread of ICT is the technology of electronic computers, which strongly marked the last years of the twentieth century and experience its expansion in the twenty-first century.
Basic Concept
With the advancement of medicine, new medical procedures are introduced and generation of increased amounts of data. ICT participates in the resolution of the data processing and thus contribute to avoiding or at least alleviating "information crisis."
Use of ICT in Medicine
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