The Social Effect of EHealthcare

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The Social Effect of E-Healthcare

• Dhvani Patel, Jayna Hawkins, Frank Morfin,
  Carlton Lewis, Ache Fodeibou

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3 Questions To Think About

• 1. What is the future of electronic healthcare?
• 2. How will computers effect society?
• 3. How has IT effected families?

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E-Healthcare in the Past

• The need for medical attention
• People couldnt take care of their well being
• B2B

• Ventro were one of the Corp to suffer
• Overestimated the ability of e-commerce
• Lack of revenue forced the corp. to branch out.
• Hired engineering directors

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E HealthcareThe Past becoming the Present

• Keys for success
• Insight and communication
• In 99, 40 of users relied on health info
• Online Purchasing
• Healthcare Search Engines
• Quality Information

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The Present of E-Healthcare

• From paper to digital files
• Saved up to 140 billion dollars
• Reduced Errors in the workplace
• Have benefited healthcare org.
• Benefits came from databases

• Security Issues Arose
• Hackers
• George W. Bushs plan for security
• The norm of today may soon be seen as the past

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The Future of E-Healthcare

• Will continue to reduce costs
• Become more readily accessible
• All data will soon be transformed as digital
• The Future of E-Healthcare must obstacle big
  hurdles

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Future of E-Healthcare

• Disadvantages
• Doctors are reluctant to change

• Advantages
• Faster application allow faster processing
• Unlimited sources for decision making
• Standardized clinical vocabulary and coding (more
  jargons)
• The removing of barriers

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ITs past effect on Society

• IT reveals the ugly truth of America
• 3/3/91 Rodney King
• Resulted of 3 officers acquitted
• Caused 53 deaths, 7000 arrests, 1 billion of
  property destroyed
• Houston police officer assault cab driver
• Cell phone proved defendants case

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ITs present effect on society

• Disadvantages
• Creates unemployment
• Deskills jobs
• Invades privacy
• Children become delinquent

• Advantages
• Communication between companies is easier
• Difficult jobs have become easier
• You Make the call.
• Jobs that needed ten people to complete can be
  successfully done by one person.

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ITs effect on families

• Advantages
• Easier to communicate with each other
• Allows mothers to work at home

• Disadvantages
• Communication may lack physical interaction
• Become too dependent on the computer

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Future Economic Effect of Information Technology

• 1. Computers will continue taking jobs
• 2. If education and training is not enforced,
  jobs will be lossed and GDP will go down.

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Connecting E-Healthcare and Society

• WebMD
• E-mail and Instant messaging between patients and
  doctors
• E Healthcare and Society as a whole