what has your personal exposure been to technology in health care?

Answer 1

Well, I work in public health, so I see parts of health care many people take for granted.

At my job, I work on a database that collects information about people who have been diagnosed with reportable communicable diseases. We need to collect that information so we can find out how many people are getting sick, how they are getting sick, and extrapolate ways to prevent future illnesses using that data.

We have a public health laboratory that runs our tests to find things like HIV, bioterrorism diseases, food pathogens like Salmonella, etc. They have very sophisticated equipment in the lab. We use pulse-field gel electrophoresis to determine the DNA sequence of various bacteria we study. HIV tests are run using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ELISA.

Coordinating our disaster preparedness plan requires some spiffy technology, too. We rely heavily on telecommunications technology (landlines, mobile phones, pagers, walkie-talkies, Internet, etc) to make our plans and touch base with various branches on an operation.

Yeah, without technology, public health (YOUR health) would suffer.

Answer 2

i do no longer think of its technologies's subject, its the father and mom who enable their toddlers to take a seat in front of the boob-tube for end-much less hours. Its generally led to with the aid of the family individuals existence. lively family individuals's (take part in family individuals issues say: video games or outdoors events) tend to be fit via fact they make the time interior the day to step removed from technologies. Its the toddlers who're in day care all day on a similar time as there father and mom are at artwork who go through the main via fact they do no longer seem to be being knowledgeable with the aid of their father and mom (whom they seem as much as the main) on what to consume. additionally obese father and mom are sure to enhance obese toddlers via fact they the adults are uneducated in ideal nutrition. Sorry I rambled lots! i desire this enables!