The Application for Healing Your Bad Burn

I heard many times that smart phones have been used in healthcare field for checking the blood pressure, drug monitoring, or text message for health alert. Now, I want to introdue the new techology with iPhone for checking burn your skin. This app helps to treat burn people to reduce errors. it's a simple touch screen device. When users mark a color an area on a screen model, it appears as the location of burns. After that, they enter basic imformation about patient, then this app calculates the required fluids amount for patients. Although this app is designed for doctor, it can used to other places when people need to check their status.

 Here is link:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-57325284-247/this-app-helps-heal-bad-burns/?tag=mncol;post

The Fingerprinting Device for Drug Test

For getting a job in healthcare field, people should have drug tests as one of  the background check. They usually make appointment and stop by some places to check. According to the article, this intelligent fingerprinting device is launced for drug tests. those types of techologies have been used in crininal justice, forensic science, homeland security, and workplaces. However, it was not easy and fast to do and get a result. the presence of drugs processes this machine with the sweat that is secrested through the pores of the fingertips. Then it is detected using dyed antibodies. This new fingerprinting machine is fast and does not need training or biohazard precautions.

Here is link:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-57322416-247/doing-drugs-beware-this-fingerprinting-device/?tag=txt;title

Twitter can protect from Pharmacy Crime

I heard sometimes that pharmacy is exposed to any crimes because it's open until late night. So, I thought they need some alert system for protecting pharmacy staff and customers. According to the article, the twitter provide security systerm for protecting and helping them with safty. For example, the tweets provide specific information such as location of the incident, pictures, and description of situcation. Then, those information provides to followers, notice what is going on, and protect themselves. Some pharmacy crimes cannot even reported in any media, so sharing updated crime news can enforce to safe in many communisties.

Here is link:
http://www.webpronews.com/twitter-tapped-by-drug-maker-to-fight-pharmacy-crime-2010-09

Pandemics in the Age of Twitter

Twitter is more than just a networking website such as facebook as it is full of healthcare professionals that use it on a daily basis to provide information on relevant healthcare subjects and topics. One of the main considerations in health informatics is the use of online media as a source to gather required information on specific health topics. The article below is the perfect example of twitter use to provide health related alerts to users all over the world:

http://digitalpharmacist.net/?p=203

E-Prescribing has 11.7% Medication Error rate

Because of a lot of prescription error in written out by hand, the new technology in electronic prescription was grown up during a decade. However, e-prescription also has shown that the mistakes are no lower than hand writing prescription. I found out that this article showes how and which part of prescription error occur. Since I saw many different technologies came out in healthcare field, I wondered how much errors are came out. According to author Karen Nanji, M.D., new technology is not always reduce the risk of medication errors. E-preceriptions from chain pharmacy use computerized prescribing system, and  the prescriptions were checked by person. But, there are still some kind of mistakes. The majority of them were drug dose, duration, and frequency. The main purposes of e-prescription may be the accuracy and the expense of speed and efficacy. If there are many errors, it may be useless. However, those mistakes can be eliminated if software were improved. So, I expect better technologies will be coming out near future.
Here is link:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/230296.php

Mobile Phone Help Low Income Patients to Check Diabetes

 Since I take the Web 2.0 class, I found out that the cell phone is used to check diabetes. I was so interested in the new technology how it works and set up in the real world. Indeed, I learned in class that Latin Americans use mobile phones lot more than other national groups. This article shows the correlation between the cell phone users and diabete checking system. According to the article, telehealth programs for checking diabetes is helpful in Latin America. Latin American commonly use cell phones, and the program can be provided from a central location to low income countries across the world so that they can be monitored in regular time, improve diabete management skills, and do not need lots of money for visiting the clinic.
 

Here is  the link:
http://www.medindia.net/news/Research-Reveals-Mobile-Phones-can-Help-Underdeveloped-Nations-to-Check-Diabetes-85224-1.htm