PDHealth

=Mobile Phones/PDAs and the Internet in Healthcare=

The Internet
Qu: How has the Internet aided in the delivery of healthcare?

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Brainstorm the ideas: · Sites with expert systems
 * Used to provide information about medical information e.g. medical dictionaries
 * Sites with medical information e.g. MayoClinic.com – gives information about Diseases and conditions, drugs and supplements, Treatment decisions, Healthy living, ask a specialist
 * Sites to order prescription drugs
 * Site on the code of ethics

Consider the social and ethical issues of this provision

Mobile Phones/PDAs being used
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 * Go Digital Archive 4th April 2005 – Doctors use mobile phones to take diagnostic pictures


 * Singapore hospitals now using SMS to contact doctors (see article), Coventry uses another method.


 * What is the latest on mobile phones and health? (see article)


 * Texts being used to drive health information into the community


 * Using mobile phones to monitor patients off site

Consider the social and ethical issues of this provision

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