How technology is changing our health care by Dr.T.V.Rao MD

1. How Technology Changing
Our
HEALTH CAREDr.T.V.Rao MD
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2. Stethoscope signifies Prominent Tool in
Medical Profession
• No other symbol identifies a doctor
more than a stethoscope. For
centuries physicians relied on
percussion and auscultation –
listening to chest sounds and
heartbeats by pressing the ear to
the chest – to assess cardiac
health. Invented by Rene Laennec
in 1816, stethoscope has become
the singular symbol of physicians
and has become one of the most
trusted tools that physicians use
for physical diagnosis.
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3. A doctor, a patient and hospital staff in grand rounds in the
1920s.
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.
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4. “ Passive Learning” in 2oth Century
• In the 20th Century The teacher
was the one who control the
access to information and
accordingly we expected to be
provided with the information
we need to pass a series of
assessment where we had to
simply reconstruct knowledge
and information, without
necessarily understanding it.
• Our sources of information were
limited to books and videos.
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5. Today’s Teaching Medicine Grossly Changed
• But in recent years, grand
rounds have become
didactic lectures focusing on
technical aspects of the
newest biomedical research.
Patients have disappeared. If
a case history is presented,
it is usually as a brief
synopsis and the discussant
rarely makes even a passing
reference to it.
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6. Passive Teaching becomes Active Teaching
• In the 21 Century The Lecturers
were mainly facilitators helping
us to access and process
information. They recognize
that each individual had a
different learning style and
needs. The focus is on what we
know and learn rather than
memorizing facts like how t was
in the 80’s.
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7. Passive Teaching becomes Active Teaching
• All the projects carried out was
based around researching on
digital tools and experimenting
with them and compare and
contrast different tools and
theories, and discussing and
evaluating different sources.
• We took responsibility for our
own learning. We construct our
knowledge through collaborating
with peers and lecturers.
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8. What Technology Means
• Technology is the making,
modification, usage, and
knowledge of tools, machines,
techniques, crafts, systems, and
methods of organization, in
order to solve a problem,
improve a pre-existing solution
to a problem, achieve a goal,
handle an applied input/output
relation or perform a specific
function
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9. How Technology Changing Our Lives
• Over the last five years,
technology has been rapidly
changing and expanding in every
field imaginable. Smart phones
are now capable of acting as
standalone computer devices
that can take pictures, search
the Internet, send emails and
text messages and yes, they
even make phone calls.
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10. What Technology Means to Medicine
•Technology has changed
our lives in so many ways
it is hard to perceive. If
you look in the field of
medicine alone,
technological advances
have allowed doctors to
treat diseases and illness
that were otherwise at
one time fatalDr.T.V.Rao MD 10

11. We are better organised in Lives
•Technology is making
out lives easy. We are
organized and fast
with help of
Technology. It is
helping us to discover
and invent new
things.
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12. Changes our Culture
• One way that technology
has changed our culture is to
make us more aware of how
others live. People now are
likely to have friends around
the world, rather than only
in their own town. It has
also made extended family
closer and more in touch.
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13. Social, political,
and economic
systems change
incrementally,
but technology
changes
exponentially.
Larry Downes
Law of Disruption
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14. Our Students are Different Today
• more self-directed
• better equipped to capture
information
• more reliant on feedback from
peers
• more inclined to collaborate
• more oriented toward being
their own
• “Education Trends | Featured News
John K. Waters—13 December 2011
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15. Computer Revolution in Medicine
• Using computers was one of the most important
technological changes in 20th-century medicine. They
became central to medical care from the 1950s.
Computerised machines in hospitals monitored patients
continuously. They also enabled insurers and state-run
health services to track patient records on a massive scale.
Imaging techniques such as MRI or PET were possible
because faster computers could reconstruct images of the
body. More diagnostic tests were developed because
automated laboratory machines performed tests quicker and
more accurately. Dr.T.V.Rao MD 15

16. The Technology gathers information from
many Tools
•Breakthroughs in
information gathering,
research, treatments,
and communications
have given medical
providers new tools to
work with and fresh
ways to practice
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17. Our Smartphones makes us more Smarter
• Think of the cell phone, which is
not only a hub of
telecommunications
convergence, but also a
remarkable number of devices
all rolled into one gadget:
camera, video recorder, GPS,
calculator, watch, alarm clock,
music player, voice recorder,
photo album and library of
books – like a pluripotent stem
cell.
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18. Today many matters are embedded in
Smartphones ?
• Then connect it to a wireless network, and this tiny device is
a web surfer, word processor, video player, translator,
dictionary, encyclopaedia and gateway to the world's
knowledge base. And, by the way, it even texts, emails and
provides phone service. But now picture this device loaded
for medicine, capable of displaying all of one's vital signs in
real time, conducting laboratory analyses, sequencing parts
of one's genome, or even acquiring ultrasound images of
one's heart, abdomen or unborn baby.
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19. New Technologies are Costlier,
are they worth it ?
•New technologies often substitute for older
technologies in the therapy of established
patients, which we term the “treatment
substitution effect.” The unit cost of new
technologies may be higher or lower than the
cost of the older technologies they replace. But
new technologies often bring health
improvements, and this is valued highly.
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20. Why Teachers Need to Change as we
Cannot compel the Students
•“Knowledge that is
acquired under
compulsion
obtains no hold on
the mind.”
•- Socrates
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21. We should only make the Students to THINK
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22. Learners will need new ‘literacies
• Social networking
• Privacy maintenance
• Identity management
• Creating content
• Organising content
• Reusing and repurposing
• Filtering and selecting
• Self presentation
• Trans literacy
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23. Self Learning – Things can Wrong ?
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24. I Repeat
What our Students Need Today
• Social networking
• Privacy maintenance
• Identity management
• Creating content
• Organising content
• Reusing and repurposing
• Filtering and selecting
• Self presentation
• Trans literacy
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25. Machines taking away Human touch ?
• Safety concerns and cost have
limited their use. Technology has
changed the relationship
between patients and
practitioners. Some historians
and physicians argued machines
made doctors poorer healers by
encouraging them to focus only
on the sick parts of the body,
rather than caring for the patient
as a whole.
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26. Are we Teaching our Students
Proper Way ?
•All too often we are
giving young people
cut flowers when we
should be teaching
them to grow their
own plants.”
•- John W. Gardner
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27. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/internet-minute-infographic.html
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28. Patients Cannot skip Doctors
That more and more people
are using the Internet to
research their medical issues.
While it is never a good idea
to skip out on the doctor
completely, the Internet has
made patients more
empowered to make
decisions about what to do
next.
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29. Medical Technologies are Expanding
•The use of technology is
expending into the
business of healthcare,
with the widespread
adoption of electronic
medical records, use of
mobile devices and
telemedicine, and the
electronic exchange of
health information. Dr.T.V.Rao MD 29

30. Nano Technologies advancing all branches
of Medicine
• Medical technology is going
smaller – nanotechnology is
being developed in everything
from drugs to implants to
surgical tools. As we look to the
future of medicine and remark
on the innovations being
discovered today, it is important
to recognize and pay homage to
the forward-thinkers that paved
the way for modern medicine.
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31. What Is the Hospital of Tomorrow?
• But the most precious part
of our existence – our health
– has thus far been largely
unaffected, insulated and
almost compartmentalized
from this digital revolution.
But that is about to change.
Medicine is about to go
through its biggest shakeup
in history.
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32. With advances in Technology
•Doctors can now
more effectively
treat more
diseases, but there
are now more
diseases to treat.
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33. In spite of Advancing Technologies there is
No substitute to Good Teachers
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34. Today our Medical Students are Different
from the Past Try Technology as option
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35. When you are Shy to learn from others Around
Just Listen to Podcasts on Many Subjects
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36. Never Forget Technology Cannot replace Doctors
Role in Human Care
• The first action should be
to look at the patient, not
the computer,” the Doctors
team to return to each
patient’s bedside at day’s
end. “I say, ‘Don’t go to a
computer; go back to the
room, sit down and listen to
them. And don’t look like
you’re in a hurry, you miss
the facts. Dr.T.V.Rao MD 36

37. Never think you are Old to Learn Technology
Just Try
• “Seniors need to get on the
technological bandwagon
and become an integral part
of their own health care and
health care delivery,”
• “80 is the new 60” — more
and more older adults now
use computers and the
Internet, and two-thirds of
seniors using the Internet
have looked for health
information online.
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38. We The Humans are Never Old to Learn
The Technology
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39. What all said by few- We cannot
survive without Technology
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40. Never Forget the Power of Medicine lies
on 3 Principles
•Tender
•Loving
•Caring
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