Digital Health

Healthcare is- the maintenance or improvement of health through prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery or cure of disease, illness and injury in people

• a sudden increase in knowledge or understanding

• action taken to improve something

• the maintenance or improvement of health through prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery or cure of disease, illness and injury in people

Medical technology includes all the devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems that improve patient care.

• true

• false

Improvements in technology have resulted in major developments in healthcare.

• •people being diagnosed quicker.

• people having faster recovery times and living longer

• modernised healthcare settings

• all of the above

surprising facts about Health care history example

• babies where born at home

• babies were born in hospitals

• surgeries are carried out in hospitals

Electronic health records

Electronic health records make it easy to gather large amounts of information about patients and healthcare patterns

• true

• false

Some present-day innovations being used in the UAE are

• Smart ambulances

• Nanotechnology

• Electronic health records

• AR platforms

Artificial intelligence (AI) - an area of computer science that deals with giving machines the ability to seem like they have human intelligence

• false

• true

AI simplify the lives of patients, doctors and hospital administrators by:

• by improving access to healthcare

• by providing support to medical professionals

• by predicting and diagnosing diseases faster and more accurately

• no robots are used

examples of how AI is being used in healthcare include

• all answers

• Data and statistics

• AI-assisted robotic surgery

• Virtual nursing assistants

Digital applications ......

• only mobile apps

• don't include devices

• are electronic tools, devices and resources that make, store or process data.