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Ictinhealthcare 230127040446 989602aa
Ictinhealthcare 230127040446 989602aa
Healthcare
What is ICT ?
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is a
broader term for Information Technology (IT), which refers to
all communication technologies, including the internet, wireless
networks, cell phones, computers, software, video-
conferencing, social networking, and other media applications
and services enabling users to access, retrieve, store, transmit,
and manipulate information in a digital form.
M-HEALTH: -
M- health or mobile health is a term used for the practice of medicine & public health
supported by mobile devices. It is a mobile computing, medical sensor, and
communications technologies for healthcare. It is a set of apps. The applications include
the use of cell phones and other communication devices to gather health data, delivery of
healthcare information to doctors, researchers, and patients.
What is Telemedicine?
Telemedicine means---
1. Increasing quality in the patient assistance: - ICT can help improve patient safety through
the direct access to the medical case story, checking the treatments online, keeping track
of the patients’ progress.
2. Cutting down the medical spending: -It reduces the costs by reducing the time required to
process data and manage paperwork. The system for image transmission and storage is essential to
promote the development of the electronic medical case story and telemedicine since it
speeds up the tests and the gathering of results.
3. Reducing administrative cost.