I read an article about “Emerging intranet technology.” Since we are living in technology world, we expect everything to be easy and simple. I think Intranet had made life easier for us, as employer, employees or even student. Before intranet came to existence, most of the employers were spending $50-$100 per year on each employee for communicate. Now Intranet is being used for communication in many organizations, I think it was very interesting that technology is not helping us improving quality, but also helping us to save money as well :)
AHRQ tool for this week is “The digital divide: what physician can do to bridge the gap.” This tool basically tell us about how poor and illiterate people are getting left out from the benefits of new technology in healthcare. According to this tool, most healthcare consumers, who are educated, using Net and becoming knowledgeable about their health. Since ‘technology savvy’ people can find anything on the Net regarding to health issues and concerns, so it is unfair to those people who cannot take the advantage of technology world. This tool suggested that healthcare provider should educate those people who cannot take advantage of technology, so they also can have medical knowledge and be able to get better health care.
I read Amanda’s comment on ‘MSDS’ sheet. I think it very knowledgeable site. Users can find some scary truth about many daily used products. I used same household products over and over because I thought I was these were safe products. But what kind of harm it can do, I did not know before using this site. Articles can be found @ http://www.mylibnet.org/nissat/vol16/internet.htm http://www.bigshouldersdubs.com/clients/ama/09_DigitalDivide.htm
Friday, October 24, 2008
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