Computerized warning systems can be used to prevent ADEs. Serious ADEs occur in about 7 percent of patients admitted to hospitals. Many of these are caused by a physician prescribing either the wrong drug or the wrong dosage, because of lack of knowledge of either the patients or the drug. In 1994, a computerized warning […]
Before the availability of computer technology, many drugs were discovered by accident or trial and error. At the current epoch, a new system has emerged—rational drug design, a way of developing drugs with the help of computers. Computers are being used to aid in designing and testing new drugs. Genetic tests can be used to […]
Some of the advantages of using robots in the operating room is that a robot may be able to “see” via video devices and to “hear” through microphones using speech recognition software. Robots can hold endoscopes and other instruments without becoming tired or shaky—unlike humans who are liable to becoming tired. Robots are used to […]
Social and economic inequality is detrimental to the health of any society. Especially when the society is diverse, multicultural, overpopulated and undergoing rapid but unequal economic growth. It is apparent to some degrees that the effects of social and economic inequality in healthcare delivery of a society are profound. In a large, overpopulated countries, such […]
Telemedicine is defined as a form of medical application/technology that uses computers and telecommunication equipment to bring about medical care at a distance. Telemedicine incorporates many subspecialties of medicine including radiology, pathology, oncology, ophthalmology, cardiology, neurology, dermatology, and psychiatry. Telemedicine remains to expand among the prison population; progressively used in prisons. It can also melodramatically […]
A database file is define as a file that holds all related but organized collection of information on a unit. For example, in a medical practice, the “Doctors’ practice of anywhere” would store all of its data and information in a database file stored on a computer. Relational database is defined as organized assemblies of […]
Health care-related errors harm millions of American patients each year and needlessly add billions of dollars to health care costs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that at least 1.7 million healthcare-associated infections occur each year and lead to 99,000 deaths. Adverse medication events cause more than 770,000 injuries and deaths each […]
Pay-for-performance programs (P4P) are programs that help in providing financial rewards to physicians and other health care providers–in the order of meeting understandable quality of care and proficiency. The programs, themselves, are good in supporting the quality and improvement of care in the United States. P4P incentive programs differentiate payment among providers based on performance […]
Article Reviews Telehomecare and Remote Monitoring: An Outcomes Overview, Stachura M, Khasanshina E, October 31st, 2007, Partners Healthcare: Center For Connected Health; Retrieved September 23, 2013 from http://www.connected-health.org/programs/diabetes/research-materials–external-resources/telehomecare-and-remote-monitoring-an-outcomes-overview.aspx Telehomecare involves the checking of vital signs from remoteness via telecommunications equipment and the replacement of home nursing visits with video conferences. The field of telemedicine […]
I am taking a position against the use of certificate of need program. My argument is that Certificates of Need (CON) laws are a typical government-founded barrier to health care entry and barrier to competition. Creating or expanding economic opportunity could rightly be considered a responsibility of governments toward their citizens. But in today’s global […]