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Through mobile technology, the millions of people in developing countries who had been left behind by the digital divide are now able to access health information and healthcare services at their fingertips. Mobile phones are being used as low-cost tools for HIV testing, data collection, epidemic tracking, and training of health workers, HIV prevention and treatment support.

Through mobile technology, the millions of people in developing countries who had been left behind by the digital divide are now able to access health information and healthcare services at their fingertips. Mobile phones are being used as low-cost tools for HIV testing, data collection, epidemic tracking, and training of health workers, HIV prevention and treatment support.

good article for cell phones in health

good article for cell phones in health

"The underlying problem," he says, "is how you can increase their wealth and reduce their poverty and reduce their illiteracy, and improve their health care.' "And what I'm postulating is that this is the technology that will enable them. If I didn't have it, it would be an uphill battle. Even with the technology it's an uphill battle. But I have a tool. There is hope. I can reach them in ways that have not been possible before."

22 Feb 2010 "Rural Doctors Find Benefit in Electronic Health Records" by: Milt Freudenheim www.nytimes.com ITGS Triangle- Area of Impact: health Social and Ethical issues: equality of access, global and cultural diversity; electronic health records allow patients' information to be more easily accessed by professionals. IT system: Electronic Health Records Stakeholders: Patients and professional health-care workers. Professionals can share and access patient information more easily and readily. Presentation of Issue-- If a professional cannot switch to electronic health records, they are at a disadvantage. The playing field is not even for all professionals. Some professionals were switching their written records to electronic records to make access and use of records easier. While some professionals made the switch, others were having difficulty succeeding. This issue affected some doctors severely. For example Dr. Michael Ferris had a problem with his expensive system continuing to crash. This put his practice in jeopardy.

Although it is still in debate over whether it negatively affects hospitals, research has shown that RFIDs have a huge chance of disrupting hospital equipment. Some scientists showed that it can shut off equipment especially equipment that patients may rely on. A few studies have proved that it does not conflict but the results are still unsure based on the conditions that both experiments were tested under. But RFIDs are safe enough to have in hospitals as long as they are far away from the equipment.

i claim this article in the name of the father, the holy ghost, the mitchell and the springer

Research for Criterion D--evaluate the solution

Not a legit news source, actually a puff piece for Deviceanywhere. However, it points to issues around mobile phone use in health services.

Healthcare Standards Development

tracking patients

US Govt requires UPN to do business with them

Informative, but not good for lead article.

Very informative article that covers positive impacts of RFID tagging in hospitials.

I, Mitchell S., claim this article as my lead article for portfolio 1

Staff at the Queen Victoria hospital in East Grinstead demonstrated their use of modern technology to the health minister Lord Darzi.

Staff at the Queen Victoria hospital in East Grinstead demonstrated their use of modern technology to the health minister Lord Darzi.

Three foundations have announced their intention to join in a "mobile health" effort to use mobile technology to provide better healthcare worldwide.

Three foundations have announced their intention to join in a "mobile health" effort to use mobile technology to provide better healthcare worldwide.

The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is providing countries, such as South Africa, with an online patient medical record system.

This article is about the need for OpenMRS in developing countries such as South Africa. This is necessary because it will help improve how people are treated. By knowing about someone's medical history, it can help decrease the spread of diseases such as HIV and Aids.

The issue is that there is a lack of open medical record systems in developing countries. Because of this diseases are being spread when they can easily be prevented. The thing that people were doing that gave rise to this issue is that in some countries, diseases were being spread at a faster rate then in others because of lack of background medical information. the impact that this has on people is that people in developing countries are spreading diseases at a faster rate. So diseases such as HIV and Aids are spreading in developing countries such as South Africa because of lack of medical background. The stakeholders are patients. The IT system is open medical record system. The area of impact is health. The social and ethical issue is equality of access. By having a medical record of everyone, people will be able to be treated equally because the doctor's will have their whole medical history.

A mobile phone based health application has helped to investigate and contain a polio outbreak that threatened thousands in East Africa.

A mobile phone based health application has helped to investigate and contain a polio outbreak that threatened thousands in East Africa.

providing computers throughout the world to make a positive impact in education, health, and science

Links to short pieces about how donations of ICT makes positive impacts

Not a news article, per se, but starts to show the uses of mobiles in health industry in rural areas

EHR software is basically a program that allows the user which can be a patient or doctor to update information regarding there health issues. This program is secure for only the doctor and patient and not viewed in public. This information remains private with fast accessibility and easier use of storing data. EHR solves the problem of losing paper and pen sheet information that is valuable. One can just go to the doctor and the information can be placed as fast as searching for the best way to handle a certain sickness more effective with an online source of various information that would enhance better results in curing a sick patient. EHR Reliability is safe in the sense that its use of functioning for organizing data as been beneficial for the medical industry as a whole.

Ariel, this is not a news source. Stick to vetted newspapers or very reputable bloggers who are considered journalists. Also, I expected that you would use the ITGS Triangle to guide your summary.