Health

=Health=

1st Year, Term 3 (weeks 1-5)
 * Telemedicine: service delivery to isolated and remote areas
 * Electronic health records: privacy, data analysis, public health
 * Diagnostic and therapeutic tools: robotic surgery, prosthetic devices, diagnostic software, drug development and marketing
 * Medical advice on the Internet or a CD-ROM
 * Monitoring patients
 * IT solutions for disabled people


 * **Title** || **Description** || **File** ||
 * Telemedicine || Wiki - complete the following assignment ||  ||
 * Electronic health records || The UK is just in the process of implementing a new nationwide electronic health record system. Find a relevant news article that relates to this system that discusses either social or ethical issues, print this out for the next lesson. Hint: search the news papers that are found in the UK e.g. Times, The Independent, The Guardian etc. ||  ||
 * [|VR Moves into the Medical Mainstream] || Link - Find examples of how Information Technology is used in the operating theatre - create a presentation and present this to the group (highlight possible ethical & social issues) ||  ||
 * Health task || Create a word processed report to answer the following questions ||  ||
 * Group work || The class needs to split into five groups, you need to discuss and research each of the areas below. Then create 3 posters per group on the following subjects, you will then need to present your findings and posters to the other groups. Make sure that you highlight the social issues with each subject.
 * Medical advice on the Internet or a CD-ROM
 * Monitoring patients
 * IT solutions for disabled people ||  ||