The purpose of this project is to examine current imaging technology and practice to determine if doses can effectively be reduced and still maintain diagnostic image quality. ... Research Question Is there a correlation between dose reduction techniques and image quality with current digital technology? ... In modern practice, according to the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Code of Ethics, practitioners have an obligation to "minimize radiation exposure to the patient, to themselves, and to other members of the healthcare team.... Digital radiography provides so many...

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Introduction Around the globe, the advent of large-scale technology implementation in health care has begun. ... Telemedicine is not just a single technology. ... The modern-day portable cardiac monitor and defibrillator are a byproduct of that scientific research (Bahshur, Reardon & Shannon, 2000). ... Internet based technology allowing virtual simulation of tissues and blood flow is now available over the Internet (Pushkin, 2001). Work has just recently been completed on two revolutionary virtual simulation technologies. ...

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1 MEDICINE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD In today's society medicine is created by a world of computers and cutting edge technology, but from the roots of medicine merged remedies and treatments that are still used today by many professionals. The medicine of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans set the foundations of what we know today as modern science. ... GREEK MEDICINE "The foundation of modern medicine is to be found in the medicine of the Ancient Greeks" (http://junior.apk.net/~fjk/gmed.html). ... The cults developed old theories and introduced several treatments not ...

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Information technology developers had no idea that these systems would be the same systems in use at the turn of the century. ... Modern Healthcares' February 22 edition (1999) states that the Y2K problem is financially draining and creates risk to the basic systems that ensure the operation of all medical institutions. ...

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At the moment, by the World Health Organization reports, Kuwait has one of the most modern health care infrastructures in the region. ... Even though the studies have shown that Kuwaiti Ministry of Health keep in pace with modern health systems, there has been an increse in the number of private hospitals and clinics in Kuwait. ...

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Healthcare is in crisis in many countries, not least of which is the United States. We hear on the news how health care providers are incapable of providing medical care to an increasingly number of chronically ill and the aging population. There are a number of systemic failures; however, none is m...

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This paper explores a SWOT analysis for the Village of Matteson IL. It evaluates the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of this community's health system in relation to the Healthy People 2020 Topics and Objective. The Community that Team DEAA chose to do our SWOT project on is the...

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So, what is physician-assisted suicide?  Physician assisted suicide is when a doctor chooses to aid a patient in the process of killing himself or herself. This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases and conditions that are hurting and or slowly killing the patient. This method of death also gives the individual a chance to decide when to end his or her life, by committing suicide in a peaceful manner rather than waiting through prolonged and continuous periods of suffering from the d...

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