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Who do nurses with?
Nurses work with doctors and patients. They use computers to keep patients' records and communicate with other health professionals.
What health conditions are monitored with platelet counts?
Patients who have leukemia, polycythemia vera, or a plastic anemia are given periodic platelet count tests to monitor their health.
What does patient tracking software do?
Patient tracking software is used by hospitals and health clinics to monitor the movement of patients. It also is used to ensure the patients do not stray away from the facility.
Do you feel health care should be marketed to patients?
health care should be marketed to patients?
What rights do patients have in regard to their health care records?
Patients have every right to their health care record.
What is the mission of the company Celera?
Their mission is to improve the health of people. The Celera company does research in their labs to monitor patients who have heart disease. It also monitors people who are at risk for heart disease.
How do health professional and patients differ in their cooncepts of health?
health professionals draw their understanding of health from the books that they read and studied while patients only rely on what they see and hear about health
How can innovation benefit patients or health care?
how will innovation benefit patients
What is goal of a patients education program?
Educating patients in respect of their health.
What are advantages of joining a fitness center or health club?
What are the advantages of joining a fitness center or health club ? What are the advantages of joining a fitness center or health club ?
Advantages of using computers to monitor the health of patients rather than nurses?
At this time, computerized machines can only monitor select problems with patients, but the machines still need nurses and doctors to *interpret* what the machines record. For example, a patient may be continually monitored by EKG to record heart function. Machines can be set to alarm when the heart reading go out of normal limits (example tachycardia, too rapid / too high heart rate). But the machine still needs trained humans to decide whether the patient is going into heart failure or having an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). One new trend is to do bedside charting with computers. Different groups and professionals--and even patients--disagree whether computers should be used at all. Some groups say it is good because nurses will have more time to devote to the sickest patients. But groups against computer charting cite privacy concerns and say that patients need the observational skills of trained professional nurses. My guess is that some institutions will try "computerized" charting or recordings, identify the negatives, and eventually will decide that both computers and nurses have specific jobs each does better, but that overall, nothing will replace the need for professional nurses. The privacy concerns with computers in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology are very real. The State of Ohio has already had 2 incidents of breaches of privacy when 2 laptops used to store Medicaid information were stolen. As doctors, hospitals, etc. begin to use computers more, the risk for stolen or compromised personal information will grow. Eventually, the public--society--will have to make our opinions known so that our private info and medical info is kept protected.
What are some advantages of doctors using computers?
Share latest medical and health information among the doctors. Helping them to improve their skill, in turn helping the society to stay healthy.
