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¶ … technology that has impacted your area of interest in human services within the past five years, and explain how. Then explain a possible benefit and limitation of this technology on the practice of human services. Be specific and provide examples.
Experience has taught that the written word can be just as misconstrued as a verbal communication. Verbal communications differ from the written word in that oftentimes, especially during times of stress or anger, verbal altercations can escalate to domestic violence, abuse or other dangerous situations, whereas the written word is not as likely to do so. The written word may not often be used to alleviate domestic abuse scenarios, but it is used to create records, complete mandated reports and assist medical personnel in tracking patient care and treatments. Use of electronically written words has expanded over the last several years to include tracking through text and email technologies. In one recent study it was determined that the PDA was effective in "significant reduction in redundant domestic abuse data collection" (Hawkins, Pearce, Skeith, Dimitruk, Roche, 2009, p. 58).
Not only has the use of the PDA resulted in significant redundancy it has also been instrumental in providing more efficient and effective treatments for ever-increasing numbers of patients in need of services. The Hawkins et al. study found that "software advances allow healthcare providers to select encrypt and securely transmit data to official agencies for mandated reporting and to referral agencies of their expertise in interventions" (p. 59). Many of the…
Quick communications can oftentimes save unnecessary pain or suffering by the patient, and it is likely that it is effective in savings lives as well. Hawkins et al. state that while the PDA is an excellent method for gathering data it is also does a good job at "quality assurance, contributing to evidence-based practice initiatives, and shortening the length of time necessary to communicate with other providers and agencies to mobilize resources" (p. 59).
Another unique use of the PDA in Domestic Abuse situations was reported by a recent study that determined to gather qualitative data from victims through the use of PDAs and other devices (Hsiu-Fen, Jui-Ying, Bih-Ching, 2009, p. 158).
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This is necessary to provide a seamless platform on which health solutions can be effectively integrated and deployed. Without using such a platform, the development of electronic health care facilities will be more difficult to deploy. In other words, Tele-health is part of the overall healthcare ICT (Information Communications Technology) solutions that enables healthcare to be pushed out to the edge, for local delivery, and to be more evenly,
The long-term implications are even more dramatic, as it will force a drastic reduction in price of servers, storage, even to the media and platter level of the disk drives themselves. There are also the long-term reductions of a reduced use of on-premises storage is the ability to free up services and support staff to become more trained in programming and advanced concepts, acquiring skill sets that would be otherwise
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