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What isTelemedicine?

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Monitoring Patients

The monitoring of the patient is critical in many aspects of healthcare such Patient monitoring involves the monitoring of vital stats of the patient such
 * as intensive care
 * operations
 * emergency rooms
 * recovery
 * as blood pressure
 * heart rate

The machine has sensors which are attached to the patient if the status had gone in too a dangerous range whether too high or too then a signal is sent to the doctor and nurse.

Advantages
 * Cheaper than using personnel
 * Quick and reliable
 * Can be used in hospitals or homes
 * Easy to learn how to use
 * Accurate and fairly precise

Disadvantages Disability Mobility impairment There are many IT solutions here are a few examples: Visual Impairment If you have a relatively modest visual impairment then all you will need is screen manification Although if you are blind that you can not see the monitor there is something called screen reader  Screen reader: a program that reads aloud on screen text, menus and icons
 * Dependant on a form of electricity and electrical hardware
 * Some training needed
 * Certain things for patients can only be monitored by humans, such as skin color or swelling in a patient's body
 * Initial costs may be expensive
 * 1) Keyboard guards and overlays: A sheet of thick plastic with holes lets you guide your fingers to just the right key. Useful if you have cerebral palsy or a tremor that makes you depress more than one key at a time, or if too many errant keystrokes precede or follow a correct keypress.
 * 2) Switches and scanning software: If you can take one action reliably (blinking an eye, flexing your wrist, jostling your knee, or, in the best-known case, sipping and puffing on a straw), then you can acutate an on/off switch. Since computers are binary devices, that’s all the ability you need. While still laborious, switch access is now much less so than, say, back in the mid-1980s, when quadriplegics’ use of sip-and-puff switches began to be covered as a human-interest story in newspapers. (Just as people seem to know the phrase “carpal-tunnel syndrome” but nothing about repetitive-strain injuries in general, the use of personal computers by blowing on a straw seems to be a fact widely known in the absence of other disability knowledge.) Note, though, that the days of sip-and-puff switches are largely behind us. In the 21st century, “switch access” may still rely on a single on/off signal, but hardware switches are now more sophisticated (requiring, say, a simple head nudge). Software now does a better job of interpreting and predicting the intent behind that signal: Your onscreen keyboard may divide and subdivide itself into quadrants for you until the right letter appears under your cursor and also predict the words you wish to type.

Learning disabilities dyslexic usually find useful: speech output screen magnification

Accessibility : Accessibility involves making allowances for characteristics a person cannot readily change. examples of its application to websites:
 * A deaf person cannot stop being deaf when confronted with a soundtrack.
 * A blind person cannot stop being blind when confronted with visible words and images.
 * A learning-disabled person cannot reset the functions of the brain when confronted with the same.
 * A person with a mobility impairment cannot suddenly begin to move when confronted with a navigation task.
 * A unilingual anglophone cannot suddenly understand French when confronted with that language.

Access for the blind and visually-impaired The relevant technique is audio description: Narration, read out loud by a human being (or, in the future, by voice synthesis), that succinctly explains visual details not apparent from the audio alone Access for the deaf and hard-of-hearing The technique of record is captioning: Rendering of speech and other audible information //in the written language of the audio//. Language accessibility Two old-media techniques are in use in this domain:
 * 1) Dubbing: Replacing vocal tracks with vocal tracks in another language.
 * 2) Subtitling: Translating speech (and, in specific limited cases, onscreen type) into one or more written languages added to the image.

=Prosthetic devices=

Computer chip for prosthetic arm http://stroke.about.com/b/2008...-thinking-about-it.htm

Boston digital arm http://www.liberatingtech.com/...Boston_Arm_Systems.asp

Using CAD to design prosthetics http://www.fourrouxprosthetics...hnology-advantage.html

"The key to future prosthetics, experts say, lies in enhancing artificial intelligence" http://www.amputee-coalition.o...04/body_electric.html