Impact On Technology And Globalization

Learning journal Unit Four

The 21st Century, it’s a great time to be alive. Technology makes our days easy and efficient. Technological advancement has made factories more efficient by replacing man with machine, robots are assisting in the surgical suites and computers once filled large rooms and put the man on the moon can now fit in our hand with ease. Nobody from the 1940’s 50’s 60’s even the 70’s could imagine the microchip’s processing power being so small with such precision and size. Back in the “day” what took four large computers in two rooms to compute something, now my iphone 7 can do the math or look up something on the web, it’s just the norm of today and it shows that technology will ever be advancing and

Technology in healthcare is ever advancing. Healthcare technology is advancing globalization in many ways. All the issues in developing countries stem from information technology. How does a doctor in Haiti send digital information to a developed country for review and help? Many of the developing countries have no to poor internet connections at best. This is where technology has helped. With countries where internet providers are expensive or countries where geographically impossible to receive internet, cell phones play a huge role in globalization. Newer cellphones can emit their own hotspot for devices to send and receive information in the form of data. This can be in the form of X-Rays review, CT scans and other diagnostics. Even cell phones that are not data ready, many still have a digital camera. Even cell phones that are more than a decade old still have a digital camera on them. This enables the person that needs assistance to take a picture, send the picture for review. This enables fast communication and documentation of what he or she is seeing. A prime example is from the reading, (Technology and Globalization 101. Retrieved from http://globalization101.org ) “Using internet connections, doctors working in remote regions of northern Uganda during the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus were able to rapidly transmit their findings to the experts at the

I mean by this is, when NGO’s come and volunteer to provide healthcare and emergency care. How are these remote and primitive communities with limited access to technology and medication supposed to continue to care for themselves when the NGO leaves the community with their technology and medications? It’s not fair to provide a common treatment that is available here in the US and go to a third world nation where the caretakers such as MD’s and nurses have never seen cardiac treatment for patients, the people in developed nations. CPR is expected to be provided by medical professionals, when I go to Haiti, I teach CPR and am part of getting Haiti EMS ready, I teach EMT’s to perform as EMT’s on ambulances. Before 2010, there was no such things as CPR. There still is a lack of knowledge once you leave Port Au Prince. Another downfall is, Haiti as little cardiac knowledge and resources to care for such critically ill