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Table of Contents
Features
Bridging the Health Divide: More information, better health?
Sally Wyatt
Empowering the rural poor: ICT's to enhance delivery of health services
Kenneth Chanda
HIV/AIDS: information management system
Francois Bezuidenhout
Reaching the Unreached: How the Internet will impact the media
Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Paradigm Change: Effect of ICT's on modern education
Ila Joshi and TAV Murthy
The internet in development Projects: Support for the poor or subsidies for the computer providers?
Thomas Schauer
Rendezvous
Global Development Network
Synapse 2004
Columns
Quiz
Insight: Zambia's readiness for the information society
Brenda Zulu
What's on
In Fact: Health hazards in ICT
 

Quiz

Ict in health

D. C. Misra  
D. C. Misra
Former Development Commissioner,Delhi,
and Chairman of the Taskforce for IT Policy,
NCT of Delhi, India
© DC Misra, 2004
 

The emerging information and communication technologies are making revolutionary impact on the health sector. e-Health has been claimed to be one of the most important revolution in health care since the advent of modern medicines.







  1. If these have become buzzwords, what are the following:
    1. Medical Informatics
    2. Telemedicine
    3. Telehealth
    4. eHealth?
  2. What are the top five most critical issues facing the Internet, especially the medical Internet?
    1. If health-oriented websites are among the most visited,what is their number
    2. Which are the three most requested terms in a widely used medical search tool?
    1. Who created the first medical diagnostic program Dendral and when
    2. What is the name of the creator of Jaipur Foot, the artificial limb well known in India?
  5. What is common between the following: MedHunt, Medic8, MedHelp, Enpsychlopedia, and Med411?
  6. What is HONcode and when was it started?
  7. This claims to be the largest medical reference website with more than 22,000 active links, which includes links to 6,000 medical journals in 80 sub specialities and home pages of 4,000 medical associations. Name the web site.
  8. This country has set the goal to provide each person in the country with his own electronic health record by March 2005. Name the country.
  9. What is the cost of a patient contact if done
    1. on paper
    2. by phone
    3. through an automated system
    4. online?
  10. What is the difference between MEDLINE® and PubMed®?
  11. If this MeSH® is concerned with the organisation and retrieval of medical knowledge, what is it?
  12. What is Orphanet and who started it?
  13. If these are surgical robots, what are the following:
    1. da Vinci®
    2. Lokomat®
    3. AESOP®
    4. OTTO II®
    5. ZEUS®?
  14. If these are citizen- and professional-oriented health initiatives in Europe, what are the following:
    1. NHS Direct
    2. NetDoctor
    3. TOXBASE
    4. WebSurg
    5. Finprog?
  15. India’s first commercial telemedicine centre was launched in a village in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh on April 14, 2000. Name the village.
  16. This claims to be the seventh largest private hospital group in the world and the largest outside the U.S.A. A pioneer in the field of telemedicine, it is credited with being first to set up a rural telemedicine centre in 1999. Name this Indian group.
  17. The Teledoc project for traditional health care in India won the World Summit Award in eHealth in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in Geneva, Switzerland on December 10, 2003.What is the project and who started it?
  18. Which are the three Indian projects included as finalists under the health category for Stockholm Challenge Award 2003/2004?
  19. Who is going to launch Healthsat and when?
  20. When is the World Health Day observed and what is the theme for World Health Day 2004?