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6 Making Connections Through Technology
6 Making Connections Through Technology
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Current, emerging, and future technologies will change the structure of the health care system and have the potential to address broad societal challenges such as poverty and inequality. However, leveraging the potential of technology will require overcoming challenges -- such as institutional inertia -- and grappling with the ethical issues surrounding the use of technology.
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This health care system may largely take place outside the walls of traditional health care, said Skiba. Skiba introduced workshop participants to a vision of a future patient who lives in a Connected Health world: "Josephine," an 86-year-old who
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Health care is undergoing a transformation, and health professions education needs to prepare students for the future rather than for the present; professionals need to be agile and able to respond to and incorporate new technologies into care. In addition to the issues with preparing the workforce, said Skiba, there is a need to address the digital divide.
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The challenge will be to ensure that all patients are able to access their personal data and information and know how to use these tools in ways that has the greatest benefit for each person. Leveraging Technology to Solve Global Challenges Technology offers solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our times, said Radhika Shah, including poverty, inequality, public health, and gender equity.
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The first example seen in Box 6-1 intertwines education and health care within the technology field.
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Healing Fields -- women in rural India provide (SDGs 3, 4, 5, 8) • Local community health information, health education, basic health services • Financing via local community resource pooling • Employment for local women -- community health provider SOURCE: Presented by Shah, November 16, 2017.
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Issues included • Guiding health professions students in the proper use of social media through establishment of boundaries between personal and professional selves • Teaching digital professionalism and digital ethics at educational institutions • Leveraging digital immigrants (those who grew up without today's technology) for teaching digital natives about the social mores and professional roles that existed prior to the digital revolution • Getting health professions organizations to restate their profes sional mandate in the age of technology, and express how the val ues undergirding the profession have not changed despite changes in the tools • Calling on health professionals to help consumers filter through the enormous amount of health information that is available and determine which sources provide quality information • Engaging technology developers with communities to identify and define real problems that need technological solutions (i.e., using technology to enable collaborative problem solving)
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(Cain) After listening to the forum members and other workshop participants, Jeffries shared her memorable points from the meeting that included a Wordle (see Figure 6-2)
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https://copenhagenletter.org (accessed April 17, 2018)
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