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At the NHS in England, hospitals are using these new "IT programme" telling them to start labeling their patients. In 2006 approximately 25,000 patients were saying that they they weren't given the right treatment. These were cases due to the misreading of the patient's tags, papers and other identification papers.(These misreadings were due to the legibility of the handwriting. Then the idea of barcodes and RFID were introduced this February by the UK healthcare manager, Roger Lamb who is now using this NHS 10 digit patient ID number and RFID tags which will modernize the NHS hospital in England. RFID's will be upon their wristband which will contain all their personal records (there will also be a photograph if the patient is unable to speak). This can only be accessed by the doctors from his/her PDA. 2.4_health 3.1_hardware: RFID and 10 digit barcodes 3.7_databases: that holds patient's records (Keep in mind this article was written in 2007.)

"The secondary students are given a laptop by the government when they turn 16 to help them with schoolwork. During exams the specially-tailored software springs into life to block and record any attempt at cheating. "

Even during natural disasters such as hurricanes, patients can get medical help because of telemedicine. The University of Texas Medical Branch have set up a consult service in the Houston Area in case of a devastating hurricane. The use of telephones in this situation is used to help provide people with medical attention. The doctors can have a consult to help them with triaging and diagnosing patients. This method however, is not reliable because it uses other industries' networks, which can cause problems with connecting. Data which is also backed up is also located far away from the site which may make it unreliable if it is forwarded manually. Then there are standards which must be applied to the use of the information being stored because there are health records of a general public and must be handled securely. 

Careful, when you say: "also located far away from the site which may make it unreliable if it is forwarded manually. " you make a faulty assumption about the causes of reliability problems.

"And for patients, medical care has become an increasingly isolating experience, as their caregivers seem more beholden to technologies than to their illness, which is most certainly not virtual."

This articles shows the conventional uses of RFID, and you me personally the fears of doing using such technologies. This article tells the reader that in the latest new york city marathon, the people watching wanted to track certain runners(stakeholder). So for the race each runner placed an RFID tag (Hardware 3.1) on the shoes, and on the track (set intervals) sensors would pick up these RFID tags and record the information to each individual runner. To obtain this information one would need an Iphone and 4 dollars to pay for an app that can give you up to date information. There was an issue of reliability present from the perspectives of the cell companies(AT&T). That issue was reliability, to overcome this issue they put temporary cell tower around the track. While no major issue was sparked, I was scared of what it could potentially do. This may do into the realm of sci-fi but my own issue would be survaillence, what if one day everyone was forced to where one of these, there will be these seners at every door or entry way tracking our every move(1984-George Orwell Big brother). Maybe we will have less crime since everything is monatered, but we will lose all privacy. It may be an exaggerated case but not impossible. In reality I can see it being place in our passports, ensuring more security at our flights, but what are we losing

"A device that allows blind people to attach and read audio labels on everyday objects has gone on show. The PenFriend uses minute barcodes which - when scanned by a digital pen - trigger MP3 files recorded on the unit."

This article discusses the security flaw that is present in the current mobile device, Android. The Android is easily able to download applications onto the phone, however certain applications may contain Trojan horses and other malicious malware. This impacts businesses and employment because large companies allow their employees to use the Android during work in order to record, send and transmit important information. However with lack of security, certain applications may have the ability to leak sensitive and private company information to others. This impacts the stakeholders: which includes the company whose information is being leaked and the employee that is using the device to store their data and send files to one another. Due to the lack of security that is enabled on the applications and the phone, certain applications make it harmful to store private company data. This becomes an issue of security because the applications are not secure and therefore the phone cannot be used for business purposes because the lack of security causes a threat on privacy as well. Solutions to this are a closed application approval process which is what apple does with its application- each one is viewed in order to see if it is secure. This step should be taken with the applications that are on the Android as well in order to make it more secure.

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.

Damian Green a person who insists not giving their medical information to Google Health and Microsoft Vault.