Healthcare and Communication Technology
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•The majority of employment of information and communication technology in healthcare emphasize on applying innovative devices and information systems to promote healthcare service delivery (Khoumbati, 2009). This means that advancements in communication devices, applications and information systems in the healthcare field are tailored to ensure satisfactory, efficacious and quality healthcare provision to consumers or patients. Emergingcommunication technologies can be highly useful in promoting healthcare information provision and enhancing healthcare system globally (Stephan & Frank, 2016)•Improvements in communication technology have addressed the challenge of patients physically traveling to the hospital to get ones medical report or records. Patients nowadayscan easily access their health records via online patient portals (Zhang, 2012). Such portals are private, and the patient can visit them anytime of the day and have a look at their medical report from the doctor. This saves them the inconveniences of physically traveling to get such records.• Health professionals can use the internet to provide sensible information on chronic diseases. This has assisted aging adults with chronic illnesses to make sense of their sicknesses by accessing relevant health information from the web rather than making health decisiondecisions independently of their medical providers (Zhang, 2012).•Social media has made it easier for healthcare professionals to engage patients as well as their family members in effective discussion of various types of treatments, different issues and challenges in the treatments and how they can overcome them. By proper effective marketing and communication tactics, healthcare organizations have been able to move away from their traditional advertising techniques and use the platform of social media to connect with ordinary citizens looking for services. Often different experiences f patients andhealthcare professionals share their experience that gives other citizens idea about what to expect from a service (Antheunis, Tates & Niobier, 2013). Moreover it also provides a platform for providing reviews and posts that eventually support or deter others from getting advantage by choosing the right service or organization or by avoiding them respectively. Social media had thereby become the best platform for gaining knowledge of both healthcare professionals and patients. They help in providing updates on new technologies, introduction of new doctors in practice on social networks, answering questions on various topics, delivering generic pre as well as post operative care informationand offering patients with any updates that relate to practices (Grajales et al., 2014).•E-health solutions platform has aided in solving the challenge of lack of adequate and readilyaccessible healthcare information and support by providing an online support for patients tolearn about health and illness and make informed decisions in healthcare (Khoumbati, 2009).This has enlightened people on health matters.•Communication technology may help in demystifying majority of healthcare complexities for consumers by shedding light on healthy lifestyle choices and treatment strategies (James, 2011). This can aid people to avoid unhealthy lifestyles and embrace aversion measures.
Communication technology also provides huge benefits to healthcare sectors. An interesting concept is the use of telemedicine. This electronic communication technology helps to exchange patient information and provision of health care services at remote locations. Nowadays, they are also extensively helpful in education, research as well as management of data. Use of information and communication Technology (ICT)is broadly used in four important domain like that in Education, Research, Referral and also management of data. ICT is found to be helpful in providing high quality education where students can seek help from cloud systems, online libraries and others. It is helpful in remote places where proper healthcare management becomes difficult to conduct. Moreover it is also helpful in researching activities and also in management off DATA with Electric Medical Records (Mamley & Tierney, 2016). Moreover communication technology is also helpful because it has now helped doctors over the world to communicate and transfer any patient to another expert in different nation with the proper passing of information and details. These are indeed helpful for patients as it saves tie life and helps them to get treatment under experts all over the world.• Use of telemedicine can facilitate the reaching of patients in isolated and remote geographic areas (James, 2011). Such interactive communication channels include video andteleconferencing technologies to offer healthcare services.•Cluster computing like pHealth services system can help in personalized healthcare provision and allow for self-managing health schemas (Rodrigues, 2013). This enhances patient-doctor information exchange.•The mass production of automobiles has revolutionized transport globally (Sandra & Matthias, 2013). The many highly equipped ambulances worldwide can and have solved the issue of moving emergency patients to healthcare facilities on time. Many planes and ships nowadays are fitted with modern medical facilities which can fully address the medical needs of travellers on-board. • The problem of pollution can be addressed step by step. Several nations are highly investing in high-level technology solutions to promote transport by subsidizing hydrogen, electrical and LPG fuelled automobiles to replace petrol cars (Philip, 2013). Healthcare professionals can capitalize on this by advising their clients to use such automobiles in their neighborhoods to lower chances of contracting air pollution-related illnesses. •Buildings meant for healthcare nowadays are designed to be responsive to human health needs, accommodate all health services, are massive in size and number, consider environmental standards, life quality aspects, and flexibility (Geoffrey, 2007). Health professionals can use this to mitigate the issue of turning patients away due to incapacitieslike bed shortages and inability to offer certain services among others.The buildings for healthcare centers would be planned so that they can provide easy access to patients as well as to the doctors accordingly. Easily accessible and properly maintained emergency rooms for handling serious cases of patients efficiently should also be pondered over. The outpatient center should be spacious so that the waiting patients do not have to loiter or stand outside and can successfully accommodate rushes. The buildings should be prepared in a planned method so that emergency patients do not have to travel long ways inhospitals. For hat outpatients can be made on upper floors with emergency care denotes in
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