Telemedicine: Medicine Through Videoconferencing

Read the Real World Case 3: Brain Saving Technologies, Inc. Medicine and the T-Health Institute: Medicine through Videoconferencing

•         From the perspective of the patient, explain how you would feel about being diagnosed by a doctor who could be hundreds or thousands of miles from you. Describe any expectations or concerns you would have about that kind of experience.

     Whenever there is a merge between patient care in the healthcare industry and videoconferencing, the term is then called telemedicine. Telemedicine is known as a procedure developed to help to provide a healthcare service that is most effective and timely as well (Field Telemedicine, 1996). Today, the aspect of technology, as well as its ability, is changing from what it used to be in the past. For example, even today, many healthcare organizations and facilities lack the skill and some facilities may even lack the equipment they need to effectively diagnose their patients. However, videoconferencing has its benefits when it comes to long-distance communication between patients and healthcare firms as explained in the text.

     However, this is not concerning what financial benefits both the healthcare professional and I would acquire upon the visit. For example, videoconferencing involves a number of benefits that include cost. For example, traveling can be a very costly operation when professionals and clients wish to attend meetings and compare information. From a patient's perspective, I would feel a little comfortable yet, a little uncomfortable being diagnosed by a doctor who was miles away from me. For example, a difference in policies, culture, religion and law could have an impact on healthcare diagnosis and healthcare results. In the process, these two parties should hold a clear form of communication in the process of sending and receiving messages that are accurate and timely (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011).

     Patients who need to be diagnosed should feel better about these procedures because they have a better opportunity for a successful healthcare outcome. When receiving healthcare from a professional who resides miles away from your location, there can be a wider scope of skills and available equipment to perform medical procedures and to process information. Telemedicine allows patients to be monitored both in the healthcare facility as well as in their private homes. Another advantage of telemedicine is the fact that hospitals are able to train more nurses at a time. I would also expect telemedicine to help to save resources and to treat more patients as well.

•         Discuss other professions, aside from health care and education that could benefit from the application of some of the technologies discussed in this case. Explain how they would derive business value from these projects. Develop two proposals in different professional settings.

     In a political setting, physical attendance might raise a security issue. The person who is holding the speech may be under tight security to the point where he or she may need to speak over the air. For example, the President, Mayor of a town and or board members might need to be heard by large numbers of people throughout several counties at a time within one state. This is why videoconferencing is so effective because of the ability to send or receive messages or media within real-time frames. As a result, citizens are informed of the particular speech at the same time of a day. IT like video chat sessions would be a much greater value because it would make operations a lot less costly. Another proposal would be recruiting departments within a business. Internet communication could help employers to communicate with potential employees. In the process, internet communication software could help these individuals to better send and receive information like resumes, employer expectations, and norms, as well as work histories and experience to help speed up the hiring process. Prior to actually arriving at the destination or location of the actual business, clients would already have an idea of the work they would be performing and the skills required for the position. Employers would also have an idea of future benefits expected to be gained within their firms by the identification of significant patterns within activities as well (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011).

•         The deployment of IT in health professions is still very much in its infancy. Discuss other uses of technology that could potentially improve the quality of health care.

Compose a list of at least three alternatives.

     There are a number of different uses of technology that could improve the quality of healthcare. For example, IT helps to build capacity which in return can reduce the amount of organizational errors. Another strategy which could be implemented to reduce errors would be to improve education and skill of healthcare providers and to promote patient safety. Strategic partnerships between IT vendors who distribute recommendations and preventative services help to protect geographical healthcare statuses. IT could also be utilized to simplify collection and reporting of patient safety data from the Department of health.

     As a result, organizations can experience improvement in the quality of healthcare and public health by the adoption of national healthcare and safety standards (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). IT also helps to prevent attacks on the health of patients as well. For example, information technology can transmit messages and alerts to prevent bioterrorism attacks such as anthrax. For example, when high numbers of certain healthcare conditions that are highly contagious, communicable illness or harmful when exposed to higher numbers of individuals, the department of health will be alerted and recovery services will be sent out to mitigate the actual effects of patients. This kind of technology is designed to detect a significant increase or reduction in a particular condition, which gives emergency health-care professions time to respond in a timely manner which increases the chances of a full recovery. Whenever there is a merge between patient care in the health-care industry and videoconferencing, the term is then called telemedicine.

Software Usage: Simple Databases Questions

•         Matching Training to Software Use 3-D Graphing You have the responsibility to manage software training for Sales, Accounting, and Operations Department workers in your organization. You have surveyed the workers to get a feel for the amounts of time spent us- ing various packages, and the results are shown below. The values shown are the total number of workers in each department and the total weekly hours the department’s workers spend using each software package. You have been asked to prepare a spreadsheet summarizing these data and comparing the use of the various pack- ages across departments.

•         Create a spreadsheet illustrating each application’s average use per department. To do this, you will first enter the data shown above. Then compute the average weekly spreadsheet use by dividing spread- sheet hours by the number of Sales workers. Do this for each department. Repeat these three calculations for both database and presentation use. Round results to the nearest 1/100th.

•         Create a three-dimensional bar graph illustrating the averages by department and software package.

•         A committee has been formed to plan software training classes at your company. Prepare a slide presentation with four slides illustrating your findings. The first slide should serve as an introduction to the data; the second slide should contain a copy of the original data table (without the averages); the third slide should contain a copy of the three-dimensional bar graph from the previous answer; and the fourth slide should contain your conclusions regarding key applications per department. Use professional labels, formatting, and backgrounds.

Training Methods: Skydive Chicago

TRAINING METHODS                                                                                               

SKYDIVE CHICAGO

•         Describe how this information system benefits the skydiving student.

     Many people love the sport of skydiving, while many others wish to learn how to skydive. Although, a number o individuals do not know enough about it to participate. However, in many locations, skydiving may require a license. Generally, a certain number of jumps are required in order to obtain such a license. An organization by the name of Skydive Chicago s currently training students in knowledge of the activity, as well as students who are going to be first-time jumpers.

     The information system can provide a number of benefits to the skydiving student. For example, students have the opportunity to undergo training to be a first-time jumper. In this step, students can obtain an effective understanding of how skydiving is done by the company where they will be doing the skydiving. Also, for students who are members of internationally competitive freefly teams, they are able to further their education involving this sport as well. Students who are already skilled will have the opportunity to jump at a much faster speed than they could before.

     Also, the information that is provided gives students a vision of some activities that they will be required to participate in. In the process, students will learn a new skill.Informing the students that the videos will be taped helps them to better prepare for the course. Mistakes can be identified by students when utilizing these videos. This information system allows students to see their mistakes instead of having to remember their mistakes. Students can also share these videos with others. This system helps to promote safety during these activities and procedures as well.

•         Describe how this information system benefits Skydive Chicago

     When implementing this training method, Skydive Chicago can experience a number of benefits as well. For example, all Skydive's jumpmaster employees have an opportunity to copy videos and to keep them in the company's library. All jumpmasters are paid per jump. These videos help jumpmasters to better train their students in a manner that is more effective. When students arrive at the facility, they arrive more prepared to jump which can save a lot of valuable time. As a result, the jumpmasters are able to train more students in one day.

•         Create an Information Systems Model similar to Figure 1.19. Be sure to include

information.

     The people in the diaphragm are the students who are being trained and the Jumpmasters who are in charge of training. Software generally runs on top of hardware components of a peripheral device or device. The software is what saves the information to a device. This information is most commonly saved on an external device, which also helps it to recognize other devices that are on the actual monitor. Software resources would involve the record, the playing of the video as well as the video itself. Hardware resources are known as the physical device or telecommunication. Hardware resources are assignable, and addressable. These bus paths or forms of information technology allow

other devices to communicate with each other. These types of resources would generally include both input and output port addresses.

     Hardware resources would be the video camera, the VCR and the VHS tape. Data resources represent all data that is available to the organization. Data resources would also be the video. Network resources would be the camera cables and the VCR itself. The term I/O is generally defined as any operation, any program or device that is utilized to actually transform any data to or from a computer or device. In this process, each and every transfer that takes place is considered to be an output which is from one device into another device. The actual transfer is known as the input. The input resources would be the videos of the jumps that are recorded to be available in the organization's library. When the actual process of computation takes place, an instance of a computer program is executed. This particular type of program contains the program's code, along with all program activities.

     In the process of multitasking, multiple processes share CPUs as well as other resources. However, each CPU can only execute one single individual task at one time. The process resources would be both the video and the copy video. The output resource would be both the student's copy of the video as well as the library's copy of the video. The storage resource would be the VHS tape that will be located in the video section of the company's library. A storage resource, in this case, could be the drive space that is available within the area's network. The management of storage involves the process of managing the capacity utilization and policy. Effective storage management helps to maximize the amount of storage that is available. Finally, the control resource would be the VHS tape itself.

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