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Applications and Implications of ICT

(Information and communicationstechnology)

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Impact of IT in the workplaceOn

Medical Personnel

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Introduction

Incorporation of advances in information

communications technology (ICT) has brought

about revolutionary changes in the workplace

and has had a major impact on human

resource utilization in certain sectors for

example, health care.

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Impact of IT on Medical

Personnel

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Definition of Medical Personnel

This is a general term for

a person involved in the

science of medicine. It

refers to professionals,

for example a physician,

corpsman, nurse etc.

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Impacts on Medical Personnel

Loss of Jobs

More efficient/improved/advanced services

Increased need for training/re-trainingspecifically to meet the complex ICT needs of

healthcare organizations,

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Loss of Jobs andRetraining

Many workers, in short, are losing the race

against the machine,

In 1930 John Maynard Keynes warned of a

new disease that he termed technological

unemployment,

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Loss of Jobs and Retraining

The role previously played by medical

transcriptionist have been replaced by the

implementation of (electronic medical

records).

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Improved/More Advanced Medical

Services

Despite the fact that jobs are being lost toimprovements in technology. The medical field,medical personnel are being aided by this technologicaladvancement.

An example of such improvement is the clinicaldecision support systems (CDSS), which aid doctorswith medical decisions. Various test results and otherdata from the patient is inputted into a CDSS which

then processes it and provides a list of possiblediagnosis and options for treatment. The problem is,like all machines, they can often make crucial mistakes.

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Increased need training/re-training

Due to technological advancements, many

medical personnel have to be re-trained as to

ensure computer literacy.

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Skills now required

Prepare bills, insurance claims and budgets

using financial software, for example, Quick

Books

Manipulate patient monitoring and imaging

systems such as MRI and CAT scan technology

Maintaining inventory of medical supplies

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_personnel

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Alex Brown

Sharifa McLeod

Brittany Grant

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