Blog 3

 Tech in Health

1. You can start by enumerating the videos you have watched and tell the specific parts that have struck you the most.

2.In our recent battles with the pandemic, are we in the 'sick care' state or 'health care' state?

3. When do you think tech convergence happened and how has it impacted healthcare delivery?

4. How can you compare old technology with new technology? Cite pros and cons for both timeframes mentioned.

5. Interdisciplinary approach seems to be the way to go in solving 21st century problems: do you agree with this statement or not? Defend your answer.

The significance of telemedicine When you're ill, you don't need to drive to the doctor's office or clinic, park, walk, or wait in a waiting room. Instead, you can access telemedicine from the comfort of your home. You can visit your doctor while relaxing on your sofa or bed at home. It may be simpler to fit virtual visits into your busy schedule. Ensuring that more people can access timely nursing care through the use of telehealth services can help reduce healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes.

The COVID-19 epidemic has overtaxed certain health systems and placed others under extreme strain. Hence, it is essential to make use of all available health resources in order to effectively respond to this public health emergency and lessen its effects. In overcrowded medical institutions, doctors, nurses, caregivers, and paramedics face an unparalleled burden with no end in sight. In addition to the fact that the virus is poorly known, they also operate in stressful and terrifying circumstances since they are typically ill-protected, overworked, and susceptible to infection. Therefore, during the covid 19 pandemic we are under sick care state. This is because unsafe working conditions or obstacles in people's personal lives may prevent some medical personnel from reporting to work or from working at all.

In the 1990s, mobile phones became widely available as an easy way to make calls while on the go. More recently, smartphones with a single user interface that can support multiple functions—such as playing games, listening to music, checking email, or sending texts—have become commonplace. Lab results, diagnoses, surgical procedures, prescriptions, and even information about hospital stays may be included in the digital summary. Better health insights provided by electronic medical records can lead to more precise diagnoses and higher-quality patient care. The use of medication alerts, clinical flags and reminders, better tracking and reporting of consultations and diagnostic testing, clinical decision support, and the accessibility of complete patient data all have the potential to increase patient safety.

Old technology gave us more independence by enabling us to fix things and be more self-sufficient. New technology has enabled us to connect with the world digitally and stay up to date in real time. It's been a tremendous educational catapult for everyone. The pros of old technology it was simply help society with problems for example creating the lightbulb in place of candlelight and then the cons of this it Crashes and System Downtime. On the other hand, the pros of new technology have advanced to the education while the cons of this, it extreme the dependability of the people who are using it too much.

Yes. An approach to curriculum integration that fosters an understanding of themes and ideas that cut across disciplines as well as of the connections between different disciplines and their relationship to the real world. An interdisciplinary approach to social problems "helps students understand why conflicts commonly arise over; the causes and consequences of an issue and, the ideal way for policy to address the issue of concern.