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ICT1 - Information: Nature, Role and Context

Topic 7 - ICT in a Caring Society

Computers and Medicine

• Computerised storing of patients records - more secure and less likely to go astray

• Databases of organ donors

• Computerised devices such as pacemakers, artificial organs and limbs

• Computerised monitoring devices on patients

• Software to help diagnosis (Expert System/knowledge base)

• remote operations (see Robot Surgeon case study)

• Computers can model the effect of new drugs (see Deeper Blue case study)

Technology allows in-flight care (how IT helps patients who become ill on flights)

Computers and the Disabled

case study: Eyes in the Sky - use of the GPS (Global Positioning System) to navigate blind people around towns)

Web Link:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1274000/1274438.stm - This is a BBC news report, which starts as follows:

"Doctors are being faced with a brand new condition - "cyberchondria" or "internet print out syndrome".  Patients are now using the internet to find out more about their illnesses, but often mis-diagnose symptoms or stumble across quack cures."