Health in the Digital World

Author(s):  
Kendall Ho

While information technologies, the Internet, and mobile technologies are introducing innovative approaches to knowledge exchange, communication, and new knowledge generation, the health system is comparatively slow in taking up these approaches towards healthcare service delivery. This chapter discusses the opportunities that information technology (IT) can offer to health care system innovation and improvement, highlights some key IT trends that will guide research and development, and highlights some current examples. Some action steps are suggested to accelerate the adoption of IT into routine health practices.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (05) ◽  
pp. 4802-4809
Author(s):  
Charles M Lepkowsky

In the absence of data indicating that older adults utilize information technology (IT) for communicating with health care providers or insurers, Medicare, private insurers and providers of health care have increasingly defaulted to use of websites and IT for patient communication. The Functional Assessment of Currently Employed Technology Scale (FACETS) assesses an individual’s use of various information technologies (ITs). Research using FACETS has demonstrated that use of the internet and other IT declines significantly with increasing age beyond 60 years, especially for accessing health care. In the context of the current COVID-19 crisis, Medicare’s restrictions on reimbursement for the use of the telephone for accessing health care are discussed as a barrier to care. Recommendations are made for increasing access to care, as well as increasing the use of FACETS to assess which media are most available to older adults for accessing health care.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
OV Zhukova ◽  
AL Khokholov

The features of evaluating data from real clinical practice are discussed. Approaches to material processing for decision support in medicine and health care are also given. The development of standardized methods of analysis with the possibility of obtaining a unified indicator for assessing data from routine clinical practice, combined with the development of information technology is the direction of development of the concept of result-oriented health care. The classification of information technologies used in medicine and public health is presented. The main characteristics and functioning features of the developed software modules for automated data evaluation of real clinical practice are presented: a program for the distribution of drugs on the levels of clinical efficacy, a program to assess the effectiveness of therapy for the specified period; a program to determine the interval of clinical efficacy of drugs.


2008 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Kraemer ◽  
John Leslie King

This article examines the theoretical ideal of information technology as an instrument of administrative reform and examines the extent to which that ideal has been achieved in the United States. It takes a look at the findings from research about the use and impacts of information technology from the time of the mainframe computer through the PC revolution to the current era of the Internet and e-government. It then concludes that information technology has never been an instrument of administrative reform; rather, it has been used to reinforce existing administrative and political arrangements. It assesses why this is the case and draws conclusions about what should be expected with future applications of information technologies—in the time after e-government. It concludes with a discussion of the early evidence about newer applications for automated service delivery, 24/7 e-government, and e-democracy.


Author(s):  
Pankaj Kamthan

The discipline of software engineering has been gaining increasing significance in computer science and engineering education. In this chapter, the goal is to describe a systematic approach toward integrating information technologies in software engineering education (SEE), both inside and outside the classroom. A methodology for integrating IT is proposed and explored in the context of SEE, particularly related to the Internet and the Web; in this context, SEE supports a heterogeneous combination of objectivism and constructivism, and aims to be feasibility sensitive. In doing so, the prospects and concerns of incorporating IT in SEE are presented. The potential of integrating IT in SEE is illustrated by examples.


Author(s):  
Stephan Kudyba ◽  
Richard Hoptroff

The world of commerce has undergone a transformation since the early 1990s, which has increasingly included the utilization of information technologies by firms across industry sectors in order to achieve greater productivity and profitability. In other words, through use of such technologies as mainframes, PCs, telecommunications, state-of-the-art software applications and the Internet, corporations seek to utilize productive resources in a way that augment the efficiency with which they provide the most appropriate mix of goods and services to their ultimate consumer. This process has provided the backbone to the evolution of the information economy which has included increased investment in information technology (IT), the demand for IT labor and the initiation of such new paradigms as e-commerce.


2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
C. Kulikowski ◽  
R. Haux

SummaryTo provide an editorial introduction to the 2006 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors.A brief overview of the main theme of “Assessing Information Technology for Health Care”, and an outline of the purposes, readership, contents, new format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2006 IMIA Yearbook.Assessing information technology (IT) in biomedicine and health care is emphasized in a number of survey and review articles. Synopses of a selection of best papers for the past 12 months are included, as are original papers on the history of medical informatics by pioneers in the field, and selected research and education programs. Information about IMIA and its constituent societies is given, as well as the authors, reviewers, and advisors to the Yearbook.The 2006 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics highlights as its theme one of the most significant yet difficult aspects of information technology in health: the assessment of IT as part of the complex enterprise of biomedical research and practice. It is being published in a new format with a wide range of original survey and review articles.


2017 ◽  
Vol 755 ◽  
pp. 106-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Nyikes

Since the end of the 20th century the digital competence social and personal importance is increasingly heaves. Nowadays the basic level information technology knowledge is necessary because the penetration rate of the digital devices and the internet availability. Again the material world dangers the defense actions evolved. The cyber age started some decade ago. Civil people are not aware for attacks in the Cyber space and they can’t survey its danger. In Hungary the information technology and the internet penetration started in the last some decades. „Gen X” and older generation people users only in theirs adulthood met digital devices and its application. For the said generations to find a workplace was not required the digital competence, because the digital devices and the digital infrastructure wasn’t availability for everybody. This age-group has not enough motivation to improve the digital competence and herewith develop the safety awareness too. Nowadays this age-group needs significant helps to correspond to the challenge of the digital world. The digital competence and the safety awareness are improvable by the way of education. The knowledge levels are very different between the same age users. The assessment and the determination of the levels are a complex problem. Skills and routine levels of the users are approximately well determinable by questionnaire. The development of the different digital competence and safety awareness level user’s is workable by different knowledge transmission. I introduce in this paper like my research synthesis the assessment and the classification of the tested age-groups.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 196-200
Author(s):  
D. Shvaiba

In the presented article, it is proved that the universal introduction of the Internet has strengthened the widely spread idea that success in the economy depends on information technologies. The fascination with this “magic wand” veiled another personality, which is that the economy is formed in an innovative way by innovative specialists. Including multibillion-dollar investments and innovative technologies have all the chances to become real cargo, if there are no people able to ensure the operation of these technologies and investments. Man is a generator and implementer of innovations. And the means for this is his creative intelligence and constant work. Technologies, especially pioneering ones, of course change the economy in an unprecedented way, but this process is not started mechanically, but only when specialists are motivated to update and modify. In addition, the more difficult the technique and technology, the stronger must be the motivation that encourages the employee to make significant and difficult, and sometimes risky, efforts to master new knowledge.


Author(s):  
Nenad Stefanović ◽  
Jelena Plašić

Education in the 21st century is confronted with many challenges - it needs to be personalized, adaptive to user needs, collaborative, social, multimedial, and technologically supported. The development of information technologies such as cloud computing, mobile technologies, platforms for social networking and collaboration, and intelligent systems, has created enormous opportunities for improvement of the education processes. In order to ensure required quality level, educational institutions are forced to enter the digital transformation process. In this paper, the analysis of the existing state of the education system and overview of the existing results in the digital transformation are given. Process model for digital transformation of education that encompasses the entire lifecycle, as well as the framework for implementation of cloud digital services with basic phases and steps is presented. The concrete use cases of application of the digital services in teaching and learning are shown. The results obtained show efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed process model and the framework, as well as the cloud-based digital platform. The main benefits include a higher satisfaction level of students and teachers, better exam results, more intensive collaboration and communication, knowledge exchange, lower costs, as well as a better reliability and security of the system. Service for monitoring and data analysis enable more efficient decision making and taking actions for improvements.


2021 ◽  
pp. 44-46
Author(s):  
Rajat Lanzara ◽  
Dinesh Kumar ◽  
M Viswambaran

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects or 'things' that are embedded with sensors, software and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet. Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has revolutionized health care sector drastically since last decade. Recent advances in digital world have helped to achieve prevention and management of chronic diseases by the IoMT technology based devices in medical eld. Advanced science, cloud technology, and new generations of smart-phones with integrated apps have helped patients to track their diseases continuously on daily basis. Dentistry has also transformed completely due to establishment of computer-based advanced technologies, new preventive disease measures, and improved diagnostic techniques in last few years. Internet of Dental Things (IoDT) is an innovative approach to achieve prevention and management of dental caries, periodontal diseases, oral cancers, and other dental diseases. IoDT could play vital role in collection and monitoring of patients' data for oral health care; moreover this data could be used in eventual risk assessment and further research. This paper reviews IoT and its possible application in dentistry; additionally it also introduces IoDT technology dependent oral heath-care model and architecture applied to dentistry. In addition, it also reviews data collection devices used with reference to IoDT technology. Thus the overview compiles recent studies on arising digital progressions in dentistry and recommends IoDT as the futuristic advent in the advanced clinical dentistry.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document