What is HIT?
Benefit of HIT
- Faster, and more accurate prescriptions
- Better information sharing
- Reduced redundant test.
- Secure access to information
HIT in 2015
Electronic health records (EHRs).
"EHRs (sometimes called "electronic medical records") are electronic systems that store your health information." (HealthIT.gov, 2015). EHRs help doctors to get information of patient's health information faster and easier to indentify patient's problem based on their previous medical record. Because EHR system provide service to multiple hospital, physicians can share information on patient record with other physicians when they need the specific patient medical record. "Some EHRs may also allow you to log in to a web portal to view your own health record, lab results, and treatment plan, and to email your doctor." (HealthIT.gov, 2015). Personal health records (PHRs). Personal health records is a collection of information includes patient health, previous medical history. It is similar to EHR. "You can use a PHR to keep track of information from your doctor visits, but the PHR can also reflect your life outside the doctor's office and your health priorities, such as tracking your food intake, exercise, and blood pressure. Sometimes, your PHR can link with your doctor's EHR." (HealthIT.gov, 2015). |
E-prescribing.
One of advantage of e-prescribing versus paper prescription is that E-prescription store in the cloud network that it can't be lost and much faster to share it between doctor and pharmacy. Which mean patient can pick up there medicine as soon as they arrived at pharmacy. |
HIT in 2025
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What id radiotherapy?
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is therapy using ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells.
Wikipedia
Radiotherapy in 2015
Ivan Karpov, German scientist who is working on beam dynamics in circular accelerators at TU Darmstadt and GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, created this video presentation especially for our project where he explains how radiotherapy works:
Radiotherapy in 2025
According to an article "Cancer in the year 2025" published by"Cancer World" journal In 2025 cancer will become incidental to day to day life. "It will not necessarily be eradicated but it will not cause the same anxiety as previously. Patients in all socio-economic groups will be better informed and have far greater control over their medical destinies. Surgery and chemotherapy will not be rationed on grounds of age since all interventions will be less damaging psychologically as well as physically." (Timbs, Sikora, 2004, p.19.) Technology will allow to see for which
patients the therapy will not work,
thus making blockbuster drugs history.
Doctors will be able to know the precise stage of
the disease process at which treatment
is necessary. And as cancer transforms
into a chronic disease, there will be
more co-morbidities and associated
drug-drug interactions.
What is Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology involves manipulating properties and structures at the nanoscale, often involving dimensions that are just tiny fractions of the width of a human hair. One area of nanotechnology application that holds the promise of providing great benefits for society in the future is in the realm of medicine.
Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
Nanotechnology in 2015
Nanotechnology is a fast growing field of medicine. It has a great potential for a variety uses. It is already being used as the basis for creating new more effective drug delivery systems. In future, it may save many lives.
"Nanotechnology is already moving from being used in passive structures to active structures, through more targeted drug therapies or “smart drugs.” These new drug therapies have already been shown to cause fewer side effects and be more effective than traditional therapies. In the future, nanotechnology will also aid in the formation of molecular systems that may be strikingly similar to living systems" (Medical Science, 2013, para. 6). These systems could be used for the regeneration or replacement of body parts that are lost to infection, accident, or disease. Nowadays, scientists are working on potential using of nanotechnology for a nerve regeneration.
Examples of nanotechnology in medicine:
"Nanotechnology is already moving from being used in passive structures to active structures, through more targeted drug therapies or “smart drugs.” These new drug therapies have already been shown to cause fewer side effects and be more effective than traditional therapies. In the future, nanotechnology will also aid in the formation of molecular systems that may be strikingly similar to living systems" (Medical Science, 2013, para. 6). These systems could be used for the regeneration or replacement of body parts that are lost to infection, accident, or disease. Nowadays, scientists are working on potential using of nanotechnology for a nerve regeneration.
Examples of nanotechnology in medicine:
- Microarrays
- NanoChip® Technology
- CellTracks®
Nanotechnology in 2025
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- If to believe Raymond Kurzweil, famous writer and inventor, the next nanotechnology evolution (Nanotechnology Age) will be between 2025 and 2050.
- According to Peter Groen, nanotechnology and Implantable Health IT Systems interfaced to EHR and PHR Systems will become a reality by 2025 (2013, November 25, para. 16).
- By 2020th a nanorobot, that is still theoretical robot the size of a bacterium, will become an integral part of nano-medicine and will allow to transport drags to affected areas of a body.
- Moreover, nanotechnology will allow intelligent drug delivery systems to monitor the state of cells in the body and report events such as cancer or small blood clots.
- Nanotechnology will allow to deliver Biocompatible materials, that consume time on passing through the blood-brain barrier, to applications much faster.
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