scholarly journals Contextual factors and challenges to e-health literacy

2015 ◽  
pp. 616-628
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era

We live in a digital world or digital era. Hence, People will argue that not only do information communication technologies (ICTs) make e-health possible but rather that it is an innovation advance whose time has come. Notwithstanding, e-health while hoping to create well needed improvement in health care, it is rife with certain challenges which are not limited to e-health literacy. However, this paper looks specifically at e-health literacy. The paper, in particular overviews e-health while addressing the impacts of key contextual factors that impacts e-health and e-health literacy regarding the propensity to adopt and use e-health in LEDCs.

ICT Use and Multidisciplinary Healthcare Teams

2013 ◽  
pp. 627-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliann C. Scholl ◽  
Bolanle A. Olaniran
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Healthcare Teams ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Guidelines And Recommendations ◽  
The Impact

In this chapter, the authors discuss ICTs in the medical field as well as identify the advantages and disadvantages of their use. By applying Retchin’s (2008) conceptual framework for interprofessional and co-managed care—one that considers the impact of temporality, urgency of care, and structure of authority—the authors provide guidelines and recommendations for how physicians and other crucial health practitioners can use technology to work with each other. More importantly, they explain how information communication technologies can impact overall patient health care and delivery.

ICT Use and Multidisciplinary Healthcare Teams

2015 ◽  
pp. 886-904
Author(s):  
Juliann C. Scholl ◽  
Bolanle A. Olaniran
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Healthcare Teams ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Guidelines And Recommendations ◽  
The Impact

In this chapter, the authors discuss ICTs in the medical field as well as identify the advantages and disadvantages of their use. By applying Retchin's (2008) conceptual framework for interprofessional and co-managed care—one that considers the impact of temporality, urgency of care, and structure of authority—the authors provide guidelines and recommendations for how physicians and other crucial health practitioners can use technology to work with each other. More importantly, they explain how information communication technologies can impact overall patient health care and delivery.

scholarly journals Information Communication Technologies’ Time-Space Distanciation and Crime in Lagos

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Oyenuga ◽  
B.A. Odunaike ◽  
M.F. Olaitan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Core ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Positive Effect

Crime is an integral part of every society. To a very large extent, it affects adequate functioning of the society. Over millennia, as the society has evolved, the patterns of perpetrating crime have also evolved. With globalisation and its inherent dependence on Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), new waves of crimes have swept the entire global community. Through time-space distanciation, these technologies have, on one hand, enhanced the traditional crimes and, on the other hand, created new waves of crimes. This study examines the effects of the coverage of ICTs on the perpetration of crime from and in Lagos and societal perception of those involved in cybercrimes. This study adopts the qualitative method of data collection. Four areas in Lagos were randomly selected based on their differential level of development and varying access to the digital world, and four focus group discussion sessions were held. Four case studies of those involved in cybercrimes were also conducted in each area. Content analysis was used for the analysis of data and ethnographic summaries were used to buttress the main themes of the findings that were deduced from the content analysis. The study found that the coverage of ICTs has positive effect on the existence of new waves of crime in Lagos. The farther a settlement is from the core and industrial part of Lagos, the lower the prevalence of these new waves of crime. Since all settlements in Lagos are woven into the wool of social interaction, these new waves of crime inevitably grow.

ICTs, E-Health, and Multidisciplinary Healthcare Teams

2020 ◽  
pp. 465-481
Author(s):  
Bolanle A. Olaniran
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Healthcare Teams ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Patient Health

This paper explores the role ICTs play in the multidisciplinary teams (MDTMs) in healthcare settings. The discussion addresses benefits and challenges of ICTs along with implications for MTDMs. For example, clarification between electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs) along with their impact on privacy was made. The paper offers certain suggestions on overcoming some of the challenges identified. Retchin's (2008) framework for inter-professional and co-managed care was presented. The framework focuses on how information communication technologies can impact overall patient health care and delivery.

scholarly journals The Anatomy of Teleneurosurgery in China

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohong Gao
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Delivery Of Healthcare ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Vast Territory

With its huge population and vast territory, China faces a great challenge in providing modern advanced health care services to all parts of the country. The advances of information communication technologies (ICTs) and the advent of internet have revolutionised the means in the delivery of healthcare via telemedicine to remote and underserved populations, which to a certain extent has been very well exploited in China, especially where 70% peasants residing in the rural areas. This paper reviews the latest development in telemedicine infrastructure in China with the focus on the development of teleneurosurgery, drawing from the results gained from a 3-year networking project between Europe and China on telemedicine (TIME, 2005–2007) funded by European Commission under Asia ICT programme, with an aim to shape up envisages of future medical care in China. Comparison with its counterparts in Europe is also addressed.

The use of Information Technology as Tools of Developing Educational Communications for Realizing the Personal Potential of University Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Andrey Ivanovich Shutenko ◽  
◽  
Elena Nikolaevn Shutenko ◽  
Julia Petrovna Derevyanko ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Informational Environment

The article is devoted to the problem of educational communications development as a sphere of implementation of modern information-communication technologies in the higher education system. The purpose of the article is to present the structure and functions of educational communications aimed at the development of personal potential and self-realization of students. Methodology. The study is based on the methodology of personal and communicative-informational approaches in education, psychological-pedagogical provisions on the structure of communication, the leading role of learning activity, didactic principles of building an educational-informational environment. In theoretical terms, the study is based on the idea of the indirect implementation of ICT in education through the development of educational communications. The developing structure of educational communications, including didactic, informational-gnostic, interactive, psychological, attractive-motivational, value-semantic components, is presented. The possibilities of developing personal potential in educational communications are considered. The author’s developmental model of ICT functions is presented, which includes clusters of actual and latent functions aimed at the formation of information-educational space for the development of students’ personal potential. In conclusion, a inference was made about the prospects of the indirect introduction of modern ICT as tools for the development and functioning of various educational communications. At the same time, it is essential that these communications perform psychological and pedagogical tasks and functions.

scholarly journals The intercultural component in an EFL course-book package

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Sándorová
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Sociocultural Background

Abstract Along with mastery of the grammar and vocabulary of a given language, contemporary students are also expected to acquire intercultural communicative competence (ICC), i.e., the ability to use the language efficiently with regard to the sociocultural background of the communicative situation. This requirement should also be reflected in FL course-books, which are considered to be fundamental didactic tools in FL education, even in an era of information communication technologies. Therefore, the aim of the present paper is to report the results of the research focused on the investigation of intercultural component in the New Opportunities Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate course-book packages. To validate the findings of the content analysis, as the main research method, the method of triangulation was used, i.e., the results of the course-book package analyses were compared with those of observation and interview analyses. The findings of the research revealed that in the investigated course-book packages only some aspects of the intercultural component could be considered relevant because they were suitably treated.

scholarly journals Citizens without Borders – new media and global accountability measures

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Geiselhart
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Accountability Measures ◽  
Global Indicators

In an environment of globalisation and rapidly expanding deployment of interactive digital communication, this paper takes a complex systems approach to the mapping of large scale global indicators onto electronic flows of information and intent. It argues that democracy is being transformed by online technologies, and that governments which embrace and encourage citizen inputs and monitoring of public information can establish vital groundwork for more effective forms of global governance. Growing awareness of issues that transcend jurisdictions makes such transformations both necessary and increasingly acceptable. The prism for this bird’s eye view is the Australian Government’s evolution in its uses of information communication technologies (ICTs) for citizen engagement.

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