Saturday, July 4, 2009

SWOT of Information Technology



S-trengths
Information Technology helps us deal with our daily tasks with ease. It helps us develop, store, organize process and transmit information. It has truly been useful in the field of medical technology for it aids in encoding patient's data for personal and professional use. It also helps in analyzing a patient's condition. It helps prevent and trace errors and it helps us save time.

W-eaknesses
Information Technology may be avant-garde but it costs a lot. Moreover, it can increase your electric bills. One needs computer literacy to be able to access it and not all people are educated in computers and other forms of technology. It can also promote plagiarism for information is made susceptible to all.

O
-pportunities Information Technology helps improve and prolong life. It helps clinical practitioners learn more medical techniques through research and be able to cure rare and deadly diseases. Through technology, communication with patients has also been promoted enabling discussion of medical data even between distant locations. In addition, we can also find jobs through the internet and in this way those hospitals which are in need will be provided with clinical practitioners and technicians to assist them in treating patients.

T
-hreats Information technology can err sometimes and the transmission of wrong information is a grave problem in medical work. It may endanger the life of innocent people as well as the jobs of professionals. If a certain technology will malfunction, this would mean additional finances and efforts to retrieve the lost data.

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