Globalization

1. Some of the ways, IT has improved healthcare is patient to health care interaction. A patient can now schedule an appointment online with many doctors office on programs such as ZocDoc. You no longer have to pick up the phone to make an appointment, the website gives you there hours and openings so you can easily pick something around your schedule. IT has also helped spread awareness. The Center for Disease Control brings to the internet users attention to infectious disease, food borne pathogens, environmental safety and health, and injury prevention. Web MD is  the leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news information. WebMD gives internet users the ability to type their symptoms in and get possible diagnosis from real doctors based on their symptoms given. Smartphones have allowed users to be able to view this sources easily via an app.

2.Electronic records and digital photography allow scientists and medical professionals to break down diseases and study various diseases. IT has made it very easily for professionals to communicate with each other. Research from a country such as Europe can be sent over to the U.S. in a matter of seconds. This has lead for more professionals who would not normally be able to share their work with each other to be able to. This has helped diseases to be prevented and contained much faster than ever before.  The internet is being used to transmit findings from Uganda to quickly report data to the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control, so that doctors can better collaborate with one another. Without IT technology  Ebola could've been a much greater catastrophe than it was. It may have spread throughout the world without the measures taken by doctors in those in charge.

3. Thailand and Africa can benefit the most from distance learning. These countries are in need of better technology to help with education for students and teachers. This could be used also in educating the masses in these country to help better develop them. Today's technology offers great educational opportunities to less developed countries by offering at internet at community centers to help users gain access to the benefits the internet provides. The Internet provides students with the opportunity to expand their learning in a different environment. Before the internet, students were mostly limited to resources found in their classrooms or public libraries. The internet allows students to expand their learning capabilities. The internet is home to an almost endless source of information on topics or events in school or every day life. If you want to know something now, you google it. The internet has forever changed and sped up the process of learning dramatically.

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