ICT in a Caring Society

Computers and Medicine
1) Computerised storing of patients records - more secure and less likely to go astray; 2) Databases of organ donors; 3)Computerised devices such as pacemakers, artificial organs and limbs; 4) Computerised monitoring devices on patients; 5) Software to help diagnosis (Expert System/knowledge base); 6) remote operations (see Robot Surgeon case study); 7) Computers can model the effect of new drugs (see Deeper Blue case study)
Technology allows in-flight care (how IT helps patients who become ill on flights)
Computers and the Disabled
case study: Eyes in the Sky - use of the GPS (Global Positioning System) to navigate blind people around towns)
Web Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1274000/1274438.stm - This is a BBC news report, which starts as follows:
"Doctors are being faced with a brand new condition - "cyberchondria" or "internet print out syndrome". Patients are now using the internet to find out more about their illnesses, but often mis-diagnose symptoms or stumble across quack cures."Source: http://www.thekjs.essex.sch.uk/yates/it01_-_7.htm