1. Some of the ways IT is improving healthcare are prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases. Patient to healthcare provider interaction. Rapid dissemination of information and improved responses to outbreak situations.
2. Health officals can use technology to study the impact of health interventions and disease prevention programs by using digital records and images utilizing digital cameras that have made it possible for doctors around the world to share information and offer advice on treatments for complicated ailments. For example, Johns Hopkins University is providing individuals with mobile technology to seek advice or treatment from a doctor that is unattainable due to lack of resources.
3. Poor people in developing countries can benfit most from distance learning. People in developing countries are being able to use the internet more and more by using community internet centers (CTCs). Through these centers they have been able to communicate through e-mail and and access a variety of information. Doctors, scientists and other professionals can achieve cheap or free access to journals and other professional publications that are too expensive to buy in hard copy. Also, government aid agencies, foundations and private firms sponsor numerous distance education programs designed to teach skills to a wide variety of developing country professionals, government officals, engineers, scientists and businesspeople.
Extra Credit-
The Dominican Republic's Community Technology Center (CTC) program is at the heart of its strategy to empower people and help them overcome problems such as poverty, unemployment and poor health. These centers provide all residents with free access to computers, the internet and training- everything they need to take advantage of the 21st century technology. Now all Dominicans can come to these centers to get all the access, training and one on one assistance they need to find better jobs, start new businesses and get knowledge to improve their health and living conditions.
The vice president of the Dominican Republic activly supports CTCs program whose objective is to install well equipped centers with complete modern technology in the country's least developed communities. The mission of the CTCs is to bridge the digital divide and promote sustainable human development through the use of information and communication technologies, thereby providing education for development, with the hope that this will help promote social inclusion.
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