tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Reluctant horses at the digital river"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Reluctant horses at the digital river. | Available online http content 8 5 313 Commentary Reluctant horses at the digital river John J Marini Professor of Medicine University of Minnesota Correspondence John J Marini Published online 25 August 2004 Critical Care 2004 8 313-314 DOI cc2942 This article is online at http content 8 5 313 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Related to Research by Martinez-Motta et al. see page 395 Abstract Mastery of the changing bank of information needed to practice at the cutting edge will require the exploitation of emerging informatics and communication technologies. Whether their limitless promise will be embraced or forgone will depend as much on human as on technological practice. Keywords communications handheld computers informatics medical practice The pace at which computer-enabled technologies transform our daily lives threatens to reshape our familiar world beyond recognition even as it opens dramatic possibilities for advancing our personal and professional lives. In medicine mastery of the changing information bank needed to practice at the cutting edge is achieved by the relative few who have the required time dedication resources and access to technical aids. A compelling argument can be made that emerging informatics and communication technologies must be leveraged to make such a task manageable. The report by Martinez-Motta and colleagues 1 that appears in this issue of Critical Care illustrates that adoption of some useful applications of computer technology may run counter to ingrained behaviors that are conditioned by human nature. A familiar adage seems applicable here You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. Maybe not but our incentives to sip from the raging digital river include both carrots and sticks. Acceptance of innovative technology is a function of utility and accessibility as well as attitude. Some might characterize physicians as atypically conservative and technophobic