subject: It & Digital Learning For Healthcare Industry [print this page] Information Technology (IT) has the potential to improve the quality, standard, safety, and efficiency of health care and medical education. Healthcare has gradually started to adopt new and modern methods to impart knowledge and resources. With the increase demand for quality healthcare and medical services, the medical practices are constantly in demand for IT and digital learning. Healthcare IT and digital learning has been found to increase efficiency and cost savings. Implementation and adoption of IT and digital learning in healthcare industry improves the work processes and cultures. Digital learning & interactive classrooms tools, hospital management systems (HMS), electronic health records (EHR), computerized provider order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support system (CDSS), picture archiving and communications system (PACS), bar coding, radio frequency identification detection (RFID), biomedical attendance system etc are some of the IT applications used to improve the quality, standard, safety, and efficiency of hospitals and medical education.
Digital learning & teaching in healthcare education has a number of advantageous than conventional way of teaching and learning. Thanks to the computers, laptops that have ease the system and now there is an interactive way of teaching by e-beam devices. eBeam Edge is a new age device that is tailor-made for educational institutes. It is a mobile interactive whiteboard system that scores heavily over the conventional methods of imparting lessons. Loaded with intelligent features, it makes lecturers and sessions interactive and infinitely more interesting for the students. Apart from that innovative biomedical learning software that has interactive way of teaching technologies and methodologies with a lot of pictures and animation explanation clears difficult concepts, methodologies and algorithms related to medical education. The device can be used in hospital conference halls for the board meeting, training, brainstorming sessions. Such interactive devices provide users delightful experience rather than satisfactorily and normal experience.
We have recently designed and developed such courses for biomedical engineering students according to syllabus of their universities. Scientech Knowledge Universe (SKU) is a personalized online tutoring portal that redefines the learning experience in biomedical engineering. The same can also be delivered on handheld devices. For an example study and teaching of digestive system or anatomy of eye in classrooms on conventional chalkboard or in books is very difficult but with the animations and interactive pictorial views one can understand very well. Internet might be a great source of learning for a healthcare professional. But internet provides quantitative information which may lead to the time consuming.
Electronic health record is an automated order-entry and patient-tracking system providing real-time access to patient data, as well as a continuous longitudinal record of their care. Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) is a medication ordering and fulfillment system and some advanced include lab orders, radiology studies, procedures, discharges, transfers, and referrals. Clinical decision support system (CDSS) provides physicians and nurses with real-time diagnostic and treatment recommendations. Picture archiving and communications system (PACS): This technology captures and integrates diagnostic and radiological images from various devices (e.g., x-ray, MRI, computed tomography scan), stores them, and disseminates them to a medical record, a clinical data repository, or other points of care.
In Bar coding an optical scanner is used to electronically capture information encoded on a product. Initially, it will be used for medication, for example, matching drugs to patients by using bar codes on both the medications and patients arm bracelets, but other applications may be pursued, such as medical devices, lab, and radiology. Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology tracks patients throughout the hospital, and links lab and medication tracking through a wireless communications system. Biometric time attendance systems used to track each and every person coming to your place is actually who he claims to be or not with its time and other details. It uses a face recognition system to verify a person's identity and record its time-in and time-out with all required details. It is widely used in Hospitals to integrate to payroll systems,account systems and billing system.
