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What did the Nuremberg Code establish in relation to medical experiments?
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What is the ratio of health apps for consumers to those for physicians?
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What is the purpose of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008?
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What is the study of imaging for patient care known as?
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What are the types of digital detectors mentioned in the text?
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What are the barriers to transition to filmless radiology systems?
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What is the Veterans Health Administration's Teleradiology Network designed to provide?
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What are the levels of evidence based on the GRADE framework?
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What are the components of telemedicine and its applications?
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What are the transmission modes involved in telemedicine?
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What are the goals and purposes of telehealth?
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What does bioinformatics focus on?
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What does genomics study?
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What does phenotype refer to?
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What is the primary importance of bioinformatics in healthcare?
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What did the Human Genome Project discover?
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Study Notes
Telehealth and Bioinformatics in Healthcare
- Telehealth involves the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies for long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, and public health and health administration.
- Telemedicine is gaining popularity due to rising healthcare costs, the need to prevent readmissions, shortages of specialists in rural areas, and the increase in chronic diseases and aging population.
- Telemedicine includes transmission modes like store-and-forward, real-time, and remote monitoring, but faces barriers such as limited reimbursement, high initial cost, bandwidth issues, licensure laws, and ethical/legal challenges.
- The goals and purposes of telehealth include addressing rising healthcare costs, preventing readmissions, overcoming specialist shortages in rural areas, managing chronic diseases, improving collaboration among healthcare organizations, and enhancing patient satisfaction by providing better access to specialty care.
- Bioinformatics is a field that merges biology, computer science, and information technology to develop algorithms for biological hypotheses, such as finding genes, predicting protein structure/function, and examining evolutionary relationships.
- Transformational bioinformatics focuses on human eHealth, while genomics analyzes genetic material, proteomics studies proteins, pharmacogenomics links genetic material with drug targets, and metabolomics studies genes, proteins, or metabolites.
- Phenotype refers to observable characteristics of an organism, while genotype is based on genetic information associated with a phenotype. The human body contains about 100 trillion cells, each with a complete set of genetic information in the nucleus.
- Bioinformatics is important for diagnosing hereditary diseases, discovering drug targets, developing personalized drugs based on genetic profiles, and creating gene therapies for diseases with a strong genomic component.
- The Human Genome Project, a collaborative project started in 1990 and completed in 2003, discovered 3 million SNPs and raised ethical, legal, and social issues.
- Personal genomics aims to develop tailor-made medications and treatments targeting individuals and to offer bio-surveillance for future infectious disease outbreaks.
- The All of Us Project collects biological data to further precision or personalized medicine, but ethical questions related to genetic testing include regulation, accuracy, economic viability, and potential to mislead customers.
- Patients must ensure the accuracy of genetic testing before undergoing it, according to Varmus.
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Test your knowledge of telehealth and bioinformatics in healthcare with this quiz. Explore topics such as the use of electronic technologies for long-distance clinical care, the merging of biology and computer science in bioinformatics, and the ethical and social implications of genetic testing.