Globalization Blog Post

What are the some of ways IT has improved health care as mentioned in the website?

As technology improves everyday, new developments are constantly infiltrating our lives. If we talk about the healthcare then we can see how the IT brings a revolution in the medical field. According to the website IT is dramatically improving health care in these ways:

-Prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases 
-Patient to healthcare provider interaction 
-Rapid dissemination of information
-Improved responses to outbreak situations.

          According to an online article the federal government is also planning to spend up to $29 billion in incentives to encourage hospitals and doctor's offices to digitize health care records. In short, we can say that IT brings a new techniques which gives a lot of comfort in the life of human beings. 

2. How can health officials use technology to study the impact of health interventions and disease prevention programs?

Technology is become the backbone of medical profession and if we look upon the gaze into the near future, we can see the beginnings of a whole new world of medical treatments that the doctors of yesterday couldn't even begin to imagine. Efforts to contain outbreaks of dangerous infections disease require the rapid collection and transmission of detailed patient data to medical labs and public health centers, so medical staff need advanced tools          which are helpful for the development in healthcare community.Also, new initiatives are being taken by the government for those people who are unable to reach the hospitals.

Information Technology Applications:

-Patient will have access to their medical records from any location  via secured internet site.
-New devices are able to determine the chemical content of blood  when placed on the top of the skin.
-A pill bottle cap to record the time and date when the bottle was open.
All in all, we can say that our society is moving faster then it ever has in the past.

3. What type of countries can benefit from distance learning the most and how? Discuss specific examples of how distance learning can be used.

"Distance learning" the method of studying in which lecture are broadcast or classes are conducted by correspondence or over the internet, without needing to attend a school or college. So, if we look upon the distance learning on the worldwide perspective then we can see how the most of the countries are take advantages from the distance learning. Distance learning have the potential to deliver the precious resource of knowledge to some of the most destitute countries of the earth, while at the same time stimulating the growth fledgling telecom infrastructures. Both the emergence of the internet and developments in educational software vastly enhanced distance education over the past decade. Government aid agencies, foundations and private firms sponsor numerous distance education programs. The internet provides an extraordinary opportunity for students to extend the reach of their learning. Before the internet if teacher gave any assignment to the students, to do this assignment students visited the libraries for their research and they spent their whole day for searching the material, but now in just single click you can research on any topic at any time. So, all the countries are adopted the distance learning program but the U.S is on top. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a significant donor in developing countries, sponsored a study of Distance Learning in Africa last year and found an abundance of distance learning programs being initiated and managed, even in some of the world's most destitute countries. To summarize, we can say that the geographic reach of distance education are spreading all over the world.

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Ruth and Shi, S. a. (n.d.). Distance Learning in Developing Countries. Retrieved July 17, 2014,from http://policy-icasit.gmu.edu/projects/distance%20learning%20in%20developing%20countries.pdf

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