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:

• 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 with expert systems

• 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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