Health

=== Telemedicine is telecommunications of medical institutions or professionals who provide health care electronically for patients in remote areas. It can collect, transfer medical data, and has video transmissions. It enables patient consultation and medical education over large and small distances. It is being used in medical fields such as cardiology and psychiatry. Telemedicine provides benefits for patients because they can stay in their comfortable home without going to nursing homes or hospitals. The cost is saved and they have easier access to medical consultation. === === Telemedicine uses technology that enables heath care providers to care patients in their house or remote areas. It uses videoconferencing technology and high speed telecommunications network; through video cameras, medical professionals and patients can talk to each other without having to visit them. Medical data can be sent electronically at telemedicine appointment. The common methods of telemedicine often involve the use of telephone lines, Internet, and satellites. ===

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• **Electronic health records: privacy, data analysis, public health **

 Electronic health records are electronic record of patient health information that includes demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, and patient medical history. The records no longer have to be kept in traditional ways using papers. Instead, orders and results can be viewed online and simple clicks would reveal all medication histories and digital images. It aims to save time and money by enabling doctors to access health records faster and easier. The e-health records have been adopted by many hospitals and the survey showed that it was being used by 51% of larger practices (with 50 or more doctors). The technologies being used include patient monitoring and GP2GP. Electronic health record systems like Telehomecare provide in-home monitoring system in which patients can manage their care and save travel time. It rapidly detects the problem and GP2GP enables GP to send electronic health record to another practice. The process includes printing out the details of the record on GP clinical system and the documents of medical history records, laboratory forms, and referral letters would be sent with the health record to new practice through medical records transfer process.

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Robotics technology is now widely used in medical institutes because it offers high accuracy and ensures greater security. This novel technology is now being used in gallbladder surgery, heartburn, gastro esophageal reflux correction and endoscope positioning. This technology will branch out to heart surgeries as well. Robotics technology has revolutionized the field of surgery as patients no longer have to face immense scaring and pain as small incisions (few cm) can be made by the use of cameras. Furthermore, the amount of time patients have to stay in the hospital is significantly reduced as the incisions are tiny.

Robotic Surgery
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• Medical advice on the Internet or a CD-ROM (John)
**Internet**  Medical advice is the receiving of a formal professional opinion and help from doctors to specific patients about their health issues. To add on that, medical advice usually involve giving diagnosis, prescriptions and a treatment for patient’s medical conditions. Nowadays, medical advices can be done through the internet or it can be watched through a CD-ROM.

 This type of online medical advice allows patients to search up, using search engines, about their symptoms which enables patient to read information about particular illness, and there are few tips for an emergency health use which are uploaded on a self-help guidance page within the online medical advice web page. So basically, all the information is uploaded on a web page already so that patients can access it, and pages are uploaded often, for an additional updates.

 Furthermore, patients can question about their particular symptoms, and answers will be replied to the patients from the professional doctors.

 **CD-ROMs**  Nowadays, many medical advices are stored in CD-ROMs, which brings a great advantage for people who have little access to healthcare due to their location, becuase it's a portable device. Medical Advices on CD-ROMs are provided by mainly by hospital organisations for patients, and it contains instructions and information on diseases or illness and treatments on symptoms and simple tips for emergency health issue. Patients can easily navigate and understand interactive medical information through step by step instructions, graphic designs, medical illustrations (simulations), and animations.

 Technology behind Medical advice  - CD-ROMs, Internet, PC, Search Engines, Graphic Simulators.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Simulation how we get infected by flu

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> A video offered by medical advice on how to prevent swine flu. (step by step instructions) media type="youtube" key="gvD18iSCg8I" height="385" width="480"

Technology: Computers are being used to monitor patients. Databases are used to store data being recorded by hardware or sensors.
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• IT solutions for disabled people (Do Yup)
Blind: Technology being used- speakers, screen reader software, computer. The use of a screen reader has become popular amongst blind people. This is an application that attempts to describe to the blind user in speech what the graphical user interface is displaying. It turns the visual output of the standard user interface into a format that is accessible to a blind user.

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Deaf: Technology being used – webcams, videophones. Deaf people can have phone conversations relayed using webcams or videophones and an interpreter. The Video Relay Service works by putting a deaf person in visual contact with a sign language interpreter via a webcam or video phone, and the interpreter then relays the deaf person's conversation using a telephone and translates the other person's response into sign language.

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Mute: Voice Output Communication Aid allows the mute people to input text that would be spoken out loud. The technologies involved are keyboards, screens, touch-screens, speakers. Keyboards and touch screens allow the users to input data while the speakers allow the text to be spoken out.

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__//**Requirements:**//__

1. Find what technology is being used. How it is being used. **(4 points)** 2. Find examples that we can use in class. (Videos and Pictures) Online examples will be used in class for your classmates to try. Try them before posting it in this wiki. **(2 for each example [max point will be 6 points])** 3. On Paper write down the issues (section 1) that might arise with the use of technology. DO NOT post this issue, during class on Wednesday you will get to ask one person from the class why that issue should be flaged. 4. This work will be due Tuesday night.
 * (2 points each [maximum 6 points] )**