Digital Skills and Research Methods: Healthcare Assessment 1 Report

This report provides an overview of the integration of digital skills in the healthcare sector. It begins by highlighting the contemporary use of technology, including electronic health records and telemedicine, and their impact on patient care and efficiency. The report then examines the role of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the use of genome sequencing, AI, and telemedicine. It further explores the significance of digital communication, collaboration, and participation among healthcare professionals, alongside the importance of digital literacy for professional career development. The relevance of technical proficiency for information and data handling is also discussed, emphasizing data security and the application of technology in healthcare research and decision-making. The report concludes by summarizing the various digital technologies used in healthcare and their benefits for both professionals and patients. The report uses multiple sources to support the ideas presented.

Digital Skills And Research
Methods (Assessment 1 Digital
skills in Healthcare)
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Use of contemporary technology in healthcare...........................................................................3
Use of technology during Covid-19 ............................................................................................3
Use of digital communication, collaboration and participation ..................................................4
Use of digital literacy for professional career development........................................................4
Relevance of technical proficiency for information, data handling.............................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
In present era technology is being used in all sectors. This has made it easy to do complex
task. Also, with use of advance tools and applications it has become easy to manage all work.
Likewise, in health care there is advance use of technology in it. This has supported
practitioners and professionals to provide high quality care services to people. Furthermore,
efficiency in health care is enhanced. With that digital literacy concept has increased. The
individual are able to analyse and compose info on various media sources.
The report will describe about use of technology in health care and during covid 19. Also, it
will be discussed about use of digital communication and relevance of digital literacy in health
care.
Use of contemporary technology in healthcare
It is analysed that technology is used in many ways in health care. Now, data and info of
patient health is recorded electronically (Blake., and et.al., 2020). This means that there are
electronic health records maintained by hospitals. Thus, it has made it easy to share record and
data of patient with health care professionals and practitioners. Besides, all info is integrated
together which has led to fast and efficient transfer. Through that, it has become easy to
analyse past record of patient and provide them efficient care. In addition, telemedicine is used
by which telehealth is becoming popular. By help of that in rural areas patient are being treated
virtually with help of doctor. Alongside, it has resulted in decrease in cost in providing health
care services to patient. It is said that telehealth is saving up to $100 per doctor. Along with it,
use of remote health monitoring tools has resulted in saving cost. People are able to monitor
their health with advance technology. The wearable technology is helping doctors and patient to
collect data and monitor their health. For instance – wearing of wrist watch and bands has
allowed individual to access health in effective way.
Use of technology during Covid-19
During covid 19 technology is playing vital role. It has been evaluated that genome
sequencing is done to analyses person genomic info. Thus, it has helped in saving life of
people. Moreover, through this procedure the vaccine of covid 19 is developed. Apart from it, in
genome sequencing AI is used as well. Hence, integration of medicine and technology is useful
in fighting covid 19 (Hilty, Turvey and Hwang., 2018). The pandemic hows that the most if the
countries ll over the world use the integrated Digital technologist during the COVID into the
government coordinated containment process like contact tracing , testing of the patent's
thorough the digital equipment etc. many people who get into the critical conditions were
supported thorough the ventilator technology that helps that to get the oprigan and provide life
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support to the patent's. People face problems to take breath and that lead them toward the ICU
in the Hospitals. Many people were get saved due to the availability of the enough oxygen
supply otherwise the rates of death could be incensed. Telemedicine has been an effective tool
in containing the spread of COVID-19. Virtual care platforms, using video conferencing and
digital monitoring, have been used worldwide to reduce exposure to Corona virus. Robots are
becoming commonplace in healthcare today, even more so during the pandemic, as they don’t
cough or get ill! Today, robots that are being built can handle multiple different scenarios, such
as in assisting and amplifying human efforts in different care tasks.
Use of digital communication, collaboration and participation
The Digital communication, partnership and the collaboration looks at the ways in which
people interact with the others. This has focus on how people work with the other and join
together thorough the digital technology.
In a healthcare sector it us necessary for the health workers to collaborate digitally to
remove the times and the distance frequency that slow down the patent's recover. To remove
the distance healthcare organization are using the visual technology in which they can
communicate and contact with the doctor thorough the video calls. In the emergency times if the
doctor is not available physically, and then they can guide the other medical staff for the
treatment of the patent's through the visual technology. Healthcare sectors also collaborate with
the IT technology in securing the data of the patent's (Kispeter., 2018). The idea of the data
being shareable and it can also be accessible to the specialist s all over the world could have
the positive impact on the patent's care. The data hubs and the shared data must be secure. To
secure the data healthcare sector use the Fingerprint scanners, IT VPN's, Encoded RFID chip
readers and the ID barcodes scanners that can be paired with the user password so no one can
enter in the data lab of the Organizations within the healthcare.
Collaboration with the healthcare equipment making companies are common who are
responsible to make the machines for the healthcare company, and they have partnership with
the hospitals. Health care equipment like ECG Machines, Stethoscope, Thermometers are
necessary for the healthcare organizations and these machines are only manufactured by the
medically approved manufactures who have collaboration with the companies within the
healthcare sectors, and they supply health care equipment to the organizations, and they do not
have the permission to sell those machine without the apportionment of medical research firms.
Use of digital literacy for professional career development
Digital literacy can be helpful for the people in their professional carriers development in
the healthcare sector.
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It is necessary for the healthcare professionals in the health care sector to have the knowledge
of the Digital technology, so they can provide more better treatment to the patent's (Lissitsa,
Chachashvili-Bolotin and Bokek-Cohen., 2017). Doctors and nurses to develop their careers in
the healthcare they have to learn how the digitally analyze the healthcare report of the patent's
that I their health is recovering, what's their oxygen supply level, what the heart beat of the
patent's and all have to read the professionals digitally. Digital literacy can be use d by to show
the professionalism, and they can understand the patent's disease more easily thorough the
digital reading of the reports.
There are some other roles as well in the health where people can make their careers
and it can include the privacy an security of the data and the collection of the data related to the
patent's. This all record digitally and need higher level of security knowledge digitally so data
can be save and secure within the healthcare organizations.
Digital literacy also have use in the health care promotion , people can use their
professional skills to thorough the promotion of the healthcare branding and awareness among
the people released to the hearth. They can use the social media to promote the things on the
internet so people can aware how they cab secure themselves and take medical treatment in
their own hospitals. This is how the Digital literacy can be used for the professional career
development for the people.
Relevance of technical proficiency for information, data handling
There is an significantly increasing the worldwide need to understand that how the heath
information technology can effective currently in the health care sector and heath care delivery
systems (Mather and Cummings., 2019). A computer related work is need in orderer to collect
the clinical information for the healthcare organizations, and they also save and secure the
patent's data. Technical proficiency in the information technology and data handling provide
privacy and security to the most important information of the organizations that can include the
companies documents, patent's data and other necessary information. Technology proficiency a
low them to get the proper security that does not let the healthcare information leak and hackers
cannot reach to the useful information f the healthcare organizations. Technology has the
potentials to improve the safety and quality of care for the patent;s and it also helps top reduce
the cost of the treatment and provide the best treatment to the patent's. Healthcare data
analysts apply their special knowledge of the data acquisition, analysis, management and the
interpretation directly to the healthcare data, healthcare research and decision-making process
as well. It is the great carrier choice for those who want to apply healthcare expertise in a novel
and innovative way (Sapci and Sapci., 2019). It is necessary for them to have the knowledge
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and skills as well to apply for the data base job in the healthcare sectors, and they should be
professionals.
CONCLUSION
Hereby, it is summarised that in health care there are various digital types of technology
which is being used. This has supported professionals to a great extent. There are various
technology used in health care such as electronic health records, telemedicine, wearable
technology, etc. in covid 19 technology and AI is used in genome sequencing to develop
vaccine.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Blake, H., and et.al., 2020. Mitigating the psychological impact of COVID-19 on healthcare
workers: a digital learning package. International journal of environmental research and
public health. 17(9). p.2997.
Hilty, D. M., Turvey, C. and Hwang, T., 2018. Lifelong learning for clinical practice: how to
leverage technology for telebehavioral health care and digital continuing medical
education. Current psychiatry reports. 20(3) . pp.1-11.
Kispeter, E., 2018. Digital Skills and Inclusion Research Working Group Evidence Brief.
Lissitsa, S., Chachashvili-Bolotin, S. and Bokek-Cohen, Y.A., 2017. Digital skills and extrinsic
rewards in late career. Technology in Society. 51. pp.46-55.
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Mather, C. A. and Cummings, E., 2019. Developing and sustaining digital professionalism: a
model for assessing readiness of healthcare environments and capability of nurses. BMJ
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Sapci, A. H. and Sapci, H. A., 2020. Teaching hands-on informatics skills to future health
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